This page lists all Ideas on Europe contributors.
J Clive-Matthews (Ideas on Europe)
Writer, editor and long-standing Euroblogger; shortlisted for the UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award in 2008
J Clive-Matthews (Nosemonkey's Ideas on Europe)
Writer, editor and long-standing Euroblogger; shortlisted for the UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Award in 2008
EUoplocephalus (EUoplocephalus)
Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Surrey. Current research interests in anti-EU groups, media representations of European integration and teaching of EU politics.
UACES Student Forum (UACES Student Forum blog)
The aim of the Student Forum is to provide a voice for graduate students within UACES and to facilitate dialogue and the exchange of information between students at different institutions.
tratados (Tratados)
Bruno Oliveira Martins is a PhD candidate at the University of Minho, Portugal. He holds a MA in European Political Studies (University of Minho) and a graduation in Law (Catholic University, Porto). He was EuroMeSCo Reseacher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, political officer at the Delegation of the European Commission in Tel Aviv and a researcher at the Institute for International and Strategic Studies (IEEI), in Lisbon. He was awarded the "Jacques Delors Award 2009" for the Best Academic Work on European Affairs, with the work "Segurança e Defesa na Narrativa Constitucional Europeia, 1950-2008" (Security and Defence in the European Constitutional Narrative, 1950-2008). Research interests include European security and defence, European constitutionalism and EU foreign policy. Email: tratados2009@gmail.com
Pietro De Matteis (Europe Today)
Pietro De Matteis is a PhD Cand. at the University of Cambridge. He is carrying out research in the area of "EU and Chinese Energy Diplomacy" and he has been appointed Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (NY) and at Renmin University - 人民大学 (Beijing). He holds a Masters level degree from the European College of Parma and a BA in Economics (summa cum Laude) from the University of Milan–Bicocca and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Erasmus). He has had the opportunity to work for the European Commission and the European Central Bank and he has joined several European initiatives e.g. JEF, MFE, Ventotene, ESN. Contact:pietrodematteis@gmail.com
Aukje van Loon (Global Governance and Regionalism)
Aukje van Loon holds a B.A. in Communication with Modern Languages from RGU, Aberdeen, and M.A. in European Culture and Economy from the Ruhr University of Bochum (RUB) in Germany. Currently, she is Ph.D candidate, research associate and lecturer at RUB. Her dissertation focuses on diverging EU trade strategies, of interregional and bilateral nature, in Latin America. In winter semester 09/10 she lectures a seminar entitled 'The international relations of the European Union'. Research interests focus mainly on global and regional governance of EU trade relations, regionalism, interregionalism, international relations theories, european integration theories, domestic politics and two (three) level games.
Mika Obara (Mika Obara's Blog)
I finished my BA at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and MSc at Loughborough University in England. I am currently working on my PhD thesis "Two-way Norm Diffusion between the EU and Japan: Impacts and Limits to Act as Normative Power abroad" at Loughborough University.
pgd (PGD)
Senior lecturer at Barcelona University on European Integration and International Economic Organizations. International Law and Economy Department. Interdisciplinary research on PAC-WTO, enlargements and Regional Policy.
Simon Orth (This sceptred isle, what blessed plot?)
Simon Orth is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester.
envereuropa (Enver Europa)
I was born in Cyprus in 1973. Finished my BA in Economics in USA with High Honours at University of Texas at Austin. I have obtained my MBA from Bilkent University and MA in European Studies from University of Sussex. I am now working towards my PhD at Brunel University with Prof Dr Alex Warleigh on European Citizenship and LGBT Rights. Previously, I have worked in many private companies and charity and NGO organisations( British Council etc.). I also worked part time in projects with international organisations like EU Office in Cyprus, UNESCO on their Media Literacy Project with Dr Albert Akyeampong( University of Sussex). I am also working as an examiner for many UK secondary education examining Boards like Edexcel, Cambridge International Exams. I have been teaching at Brunel and Sussex University since 2007. Other Info AWARDS ECPR Scholarship for Ljubljana Summer School on Methods, Summer 2008, ECPR Scholarship for Ljubljana Summer School on Methods Summer 2009 ESRC Scholarship for Essex Summer School, Summer 2009 Leverhulme Trust Award for PhD at Brunel University EU Grant Scheme Award, PhD Brunel University Lady Monica Cockfield Research Award, Research Method Courses, Sussex University LADY MONICA COCKFIELD TRUST AWARD for MA at University of Sussex Cyprus American Scholarship Program Fulbright Scholarship (91-95) Mortar Board-Economics High Honor Association Department of Economics Honor’s College Deans’ High Honor List- University of Texas at Austin MBA Honor Club- Bilkent University ACTIVITIES A-ORGANIZATIONS POSTGRADUATE STUDENT REP., University of Sussex Student Senate MEMBER, EMAA-CYPRUS Content Editor, Bi-Communal Peace Platform LIASION OFFICER, CO-SPONSORSHIP REVIEW BOARD VICE PRESIDENT, LIBERAL ARTS COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER, TURKISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ASSOCIATION SOCIAL COORDINATOR, DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBER, WORLD MUSIC COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT, MULTICULTURALISM TASK FORCE EXHIBITION RESERVATIONS, DOUGHERTY ART CENTER ACTIVITY COORDINATOR, Cyprus Tech for Peace, Bi-Communal Organization
monnetmusings (Monnet musings)
Richard Whitman is Professor of Politics in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath. He is also an Associate Fellow, Europe at Chatham House (formerly known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs) and convenes the work of the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) programme on the European Union’s neighbourhood policy.
cosmopolitan (Cosmopolitan)
Robin Wilson is an independent expert on intercultural dialogue, on which he has advised the Council of Europe. His PhD explored issues of identity politics, nationalism and power-sharing, with an empirical focus on Northern Ireland and ex-Yugoslavia. He has a strong interest in how football can be a vehicle for addressing intolerance.
kosmopolito (Kosmopolito)
Kosmopolito's Ideas on Europe. A new academic presence for the long-running Euroblog. http://www.kosmopolito.org
Jaanika Erne (Jaanika Erne)
Jaanika Erne, M.A: EU Law, University of London, King's College, 2008; M.A: Law, University of Tartu, 2004; LL.M: Public International Law, University of Helsinki, 2003; Ph.D Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu. In 1987-1999 J. Erne has studied Theology and although those studies remained unfinished, they have influenced her understanding of the World. J. Erne reads two courses on protection of human rights and rights in Europe at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu. Since Autumn Term 2009, she is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and Governance of the Tallinn University. Areas of interest: public international law; human rights law; protection of rights; internal and international policy- and decision-making; historical and contemporary interaction of law and society and what may be learned from that; how morals becomes law.
abouteurope (About Europe)
Dr Scott James is a Lecturer in European Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities, King's College London. Email: scott.james@kcl.ac.uk
moralpower (Moral Power)
Syuzanna Vasilyan is a PhD researcher and lecturer at the Centre for EU Studies of Ghent University (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence) in Ghent, Belgium, while she has also been invited as a visiting fellow to the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. Syuzanna specializes in EU external relations, primarily, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and, especially, the South Caucasus. Her dissertation comprises a bundle covering such topics as external legitimacy, regionalization/regionalism, multilateralism, inclusiveness, democracy promotion/democratization, the instruments and rationale of conflict-resolution and governance impact. Most importantly, it proposes a new conceptual framework of “moral power”.
gulayicoz (Gulay Icoz)
Icoz holds a BA in Politics from Goldsmiths College, Uni. of London, and Master of Research in European Politics from Birkbeck College. Currently, she is writing her PhD on the National Security Council’s role in Turkey’s unsettled relationship with the European Union under the supervision of Prof. Chris Rumford at the Department of Politics and International Relations in Royal Holloway College, Uni. of London. At the same University, she is also a teaching assistant.
Nick Wright (Nick Wright’s Euroblog)
Nick Wright has a BA in Politics and History from Durham University and an MA in International Relations from the University of East Anglia. He is currently working on his PhD at the UEA under the supervision of Prof Hussein Kassim, researching the interaction between Member States and the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy.
politika (Politika)
Sandra Maria Rodrigues Balão holds a Master and a PhD Degree from the Higher Institute for Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon. Her main areas of interest are: Globalization and Anti-Globalization, Great Power Politics, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, International Politics, Elite Theory, Governance, Democracy and State Studies. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate Political Science, International Relations, Strategy and Communication courses.
J.Y. DOH (Politologue en Europe)
Solving a mystery is not the same as deducing from first principles. Nor does it amount simply to collecting a number of particular data from which to infer a general law. It means, rather, facing one or two or three particular data apparently with nothing in common, and trying to imagine whether they could represent so many instances of a general law you don’t yet know, and which perhaps has never been pronounced… the search for explicative laws in natural facts proceeds in a tortuous fashion. In the face of some inexplicable facts you must try to imagine many general laws, whose connection with your facts escape you. Then suddenly, in the unexpected connection of a result, a specific situation, and one of those laws, you perceive a line of reasoning that seems more convincing than the others. You try applying it to all similar cases, to use it for making predictions, and you discover that your intuition was right. But until you reach the end you will never know which predicates to introduce into your reasoning and which to omit… (Umberto Eco, THE NAME OF THE ROSE, pp.304-305)
kent (University of Kent International Relations Society)
Welcome to the 'University of Kent International Affairs Society' blog! The 'International Affairs Society' is run in association with the department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, in Canterbury. The blog provides a place for the society members to create and post their opinions on current affairs, and updates on their academic work and research. Your thoughts and comments on the blog posts would be appreciated!
UACES (UACES: Exchanging Ideas on Europe)
UACES is directly involved in promoting research and teaching in European Studies as well as bringing together academics with practitioners active in European affairs.
European Geostrategy (European Geostrategy)
For the discussion of issues relating to the foreign, security and defence policies – as well as the geopolitics and geostrategies – of the European Union and its Member States.
EUMS Foreign Policy (EUMS Foreign Policy)
European foreign policies in transition: continuity and change in the European Union new member states’ foreign policies. A UACES Collaborative Research Network since 2009.
Vasilis Margaras (Vasilis Margaras)
Vasilis Margaras is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. He has recently completed his PhD on the development of the ESDP at the University of Loughborough, UK.
civiliancrisismanagement (Civilian Crisis Management)
Research Associate, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
tendenz (Tendenz)
András Gál has a Master's degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University, Washington DC and is a freelance writer based in London
euagriculturebudget (EU agriculture & budget)
Valentin Zahrnt is a Research Associate at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and Editor of www.reformthecap.eu.
