AnneGroutel is an associateprofessor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (France) where she teachesEnglish applied to economics, business and management. Her publicationsinclude: “Whither the State? The Recent Evolution of the Role of the State inIreland”, Irish Studies inEurope Series, (2012) and “Engaging the Irish Diaspora in Ireland’sEconomic Development: a Double-edged Sword?”, IrishStudies in Europe Series, (2014).Marie-ChristinePauwels is an associateprofessor of American Studies in the Foreign Languages Department of theUniversity of Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense (France). She has written severalbooks on American culture and society including, The Civilization of the UnitedStates (regularly updated)and The American Dream (1997). ValériePeyronel is a professorof Anglo-Irish Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 University (France) andhas been the director of CERVEPAS (Centre d’Étude et de Recherche sur la VieÉconomique des Pays Anglophones) since October 2012. She has published andco-edited several works on these issues, including La crise financière et leséconomies du monde Anglophone (2010)and “Crisis: what crisis?”, Etudesirlandaises, Autumn issue(2015).