Dr Leila Simona Talani

European Studies
Room E4
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King’s College London
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London WC2R 2LS
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7382
Email:
leila.talani@kcl.ac.uk  
 

Dr Leila Simona Talani joined the Department in September 2009 as Lecturer in International and European Political Economy. She was previously a lecturer in European Politics at the University of Bath and a research fellow and then lecturer at the European Research Institute of the London School of Economics. In 2001 she spent a year as Associate Expert on migration issues at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Cairo. She gained a PhD with Distinction from the European University Institute in Florence in 1998. Her current research interests focus on globalisation and the future of the City of London as well as the political economy of migration flows from southern Mediterranean countries to the EU. She is a native speaker of Italian but is also fluent in English, Spanish and French, has a working knowledge of German, and is learning Arabic. She teaches 'European Political Economy' and International Political Economy unit and contributes to other politics units.
 

Dr Talani’s research interests lie firmly within the context of International Political Economy. Her primary field of research is the Political Economy of global finance, with a special attention to European Monetary Integration. Her research experience in this field dates back to her PhD Program at the European University Institute of Florence. There she obtained a doctorate in International Political Economy with distinction in 1998 with a thesis on an International political economy approach to the making and credibility of exchange rate agreements.
Within this research stream, she published extensively. She is currently working on a monograph on the City of London in the context of Globalisation. Based on the theory of British exceptionalism in its capitalist development, the research assesses whether globalisation modifies the balance of power within the British capitalist elite. The ultimate goal is to verify whetherthe hegemonic position of the City of London will continue unhindered. She has also finalized the econometric testing of her model of credibility of exchange rate agreements based on an interpretation of Frieden’s (1991) distributional consequences on socio-economic sectors of the adoption of fixed exchange rates. In the field of European Political Economy she received a Jean Monnet Action Grant for a project on the Eurisation of Bulgaria and Romania.
Dr Talani’s other research interest is migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa. Interest in this field of research was developed when she was a research officer of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention of Cairo between September 2000 and September 2001. Her research project assesses the motivations for legal and illegal migration from the Northern Africa/Middle East to the European Union and EU policy responses to it. Adopting a qualitative definition of globalization, the author assesses the impact of globalization on international migratory flow, especially illegal migration from the MENA area to the EU. Currently she is in the process of devising an econometric model to test the validity of her hypotheses on this issue.

TEACHING

Dr Talani has taught widely on a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the London School of Economics and University of Bath including EU Policies and policy making, Comparative European Politics, European and International Political Economy, International Relations Theory. Within European Studies she currently teaches the undergraduate courses ‘European Political Economy” and ‘Integration of the European Union’ as well as the postgraduate course ‘The political economy of International migration'.
 

Talani, L.S., (2011, forthcoming), Globalization, Hegemony and the future of the City of London, Palgrave

Talani, L.S., and Della Posta, P., (ed) (2010, forthcoming), Europe in crisis, Palgrave

Talani, L.S., and Fazio, G., “Speculative attacks and socio-economic interests: A political economy approach to the credibility of exchange rate commitments”, (submitted May 2010 to International Organization)

Talani, L.S., "The impact of the global financial crisis on the City of London: Towards the end of Hegemony?", Competition and Change, Volume 16, Dec.2010 Forthcoming .

Talani, L.S. (2010), (ed), The Global Crash: Towards an International Regulatory Regime?, Palgrave, Print ISBNs: 9780230243415 HB 208 pp

Talani, L.S., (2010), From Egypt to Europe, I.B.Tauris, 330 pp., ISBN: 1845116690

Talani, L.S., (ed)(2009), The future of EMU, Palgrave, 224 pp., ISBN: 0230218415

Talani, L.S., and Casey, B., (2008), Between Growth and Stability: The demise and reform of the Stability and Growth Pact. Edward Elgar, 224 pp., (ISBN 9781847202062)

Talani, L.S., “The European Central Bank Between Growth and Stability”, Comparative European Politics Journal, (pp. 29), Palgrave, March 2005

Talani, L.S., "OUT OF EGYPT: Globalisation, marginalisation and illegal Muslim migration to the EU" (December 1, 2005). UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. Occasional Lecture Series: Paper 5.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/international/cees/ols/5

Talani, L.S., (2004) European Political Economy: Political Science Perspectives, London: Ashgate (pp.238) ISBN/ISSN 0754636518

Talani, L.S., (2000), Betting for and against EMU. Who wins and who loses in Italy and in the UK from the process of European monetary integration, London: Ashgate (pp.320) ISBN/ISSN 0754610543