Prof. Suzanne D Berger

John M Deutch (1961) Institute Professor
Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science

Primary DLC

Department of Political Science

MIT Room: E53-451

Areas of Interest and Expertise

European Politics and Economy, Particularly France and Italy
Government Business Relations in Advanced Industrial Societies
National and International Security
Globalization
Competitiveness
Comparative Politics

Research Summary

Professor Berger works in comparative politics and political economy. Her current activities include continuing research on the analysis of the globalization strategies of Asian, American and European firms at the MIT Industrial Performance Center (the first results of which have been published in How We Compete (2005)); new research on the localization of research, development, and manufacturing in Ile-de-France; and comparative analysis of political responses to the first globalization (1870-1914).

Berger's books include How We Compete, Global Taiwan (with Richard Lester), Peasants Against Politics, The French Political System, Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies (with Michael Piore), Organizing Interests in Western Europe (editor), National Diversity and Global Capitalism (with Ronald Dore), and Made by Hong Kong (with Richard Lester). She was a member of the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity and a co-author of Made in America.

Recent Work

  • Video

    RD-11.15-16.2022-Panel-Transition-or-Transformation

    November 15, 2022Conference Video Duration: 33:25

    Michael Schrage
    Research Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, MIT Sloan School of Management
    Elisabeth B. Reynolds
    Former Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development
    Former Executive Director, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future
    Principal Research Scientist
    Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
    Suzanne Berger
    John M. Deutch Institute Professor of Political Science, MIT Political Science
    Simon Johnson
    Ronald A Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management