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Curriculum Vitae

Professor Kevin Featherstone

Personal details:

Full name: Kevin Featherstone.

Date of Birth: 19 April 1955

Born: Hull, U.K. Nationality: British.

Married, two children.

Academic Qualifications:

B.A. (Honours) Government

University of Essex, 1976.

M.A. West European Politics

University of Essex, 1978.

Ph.D. (Government)

University of Manchester, 1982.

Current Employment:

Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies, London School

of Economics and Political Science, 2002-

Director of the Hellenic Observatory, LSE, 2002-.

Head of the European Institute, LSE, 2004-7 (a standard term).


Previous University Employment:

Lecturer in Political Studies, University of Stirling, 1979-1987.

[Visiting Professor in International Relations, University of Minnesota, USA,

1983.]

Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Politics, University of Bradford,

1987-95.

[Visiting Professor in Politics, New York University, USA, 1990-91.]

Professor of European Politics, University of Bradford, 1995-2002.

Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration Studies, 1994-2002.

Research Fields: (with indicative publications)

• The politics of the European Union:

o Comparative politics:

� Socialist Parties and European Integration (1988);

� Europeanization and the Southern Periphery (2000);

� The Politics of Europeanization (2003).

o Political economy:

� European Internal Market Policy (1989);

� The Successful Manager’s Guide to 1992 (1990);

� The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating EMU (1999).

o International Relations:

� The United States and the European Community in the 1990s (1993;

1996).

• Politics and public policy in contemporary Greece:

� Political Change in Greece (1987);

� Greece in a Changing Europe (1996);

� Politics and Policy in Greece: the Challenge of Modernisation (2005);

� The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict


in Greece (2008).

� The Enemy that Never was: the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace in

the 1940s (forthcoming).

Current research projects:

• The Enemy That Never Was: Muslims in Western Thrace in the 1940s. A

two-year project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

of the UK (Grant: AH/D502616/1). Joint coordinator with Dimitris

Papadimitriou of the University of Manchester, supported by two post-

doctoral research fellows: Argyris Mamarelis and George Niarchos.

• Greece and ‘varieties of capitalism’: explaining reform capacity?

• Implementation and coordination: the evolution of the ‘core executive’ in

Greece (with Dimitris Papadimitriou).

• The Uses (and Abuses) of ‘Europe’: the construction of a legitimating

discourse in comparative perspective.

Publications

Books:

• Socialist Parties and European Integration: A Comparative History

(Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1988).

“an impressive tour de force” (West European Politics, July 1990).

• European Internal Market Policy (London, Routledge, 1989).

• The Successful Manager’s Guide to 1992 (London, Fontana, 1990).

“a valuable, readable insight…long been a gap… for a book of this kind”,


(Financial Times 23.11.90)

• (with R. Ginsberg) The United States and the European Community in the

1990s, (London, Macmillan / St. Martin’s, 1993; second edition 1996).

“by far the best of the recent books on US-EU relations…(it) succeeds

marvellously” (Journal of Common Market Studies), (it)“remains the most

important book in the field” (ECSA Review, IX,3)

• (with K. Dyson) The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and

Monetary Union, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999).

“simply the definitive account of the Maastricht Treaty negotiations”

(Political Studies, December 2000); “impressive…It will remain to be read,

re-read and discussed for many, many years to come” (Journal of European

Public Policy, 7, 5, 2000). Voted an “outstanding academic book of the year”

by Choice, the US books magazine.

The research for this book was funded by the ESRC and it received an

‘Outstanding’ rating for its end of award report.

• (with D. Papadimitriou) The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and

Policy Conflict in Greece (London, Palgrave, 2008 - forthcoming).

• (with D. Papadimitriou, A. Mamarelis and G. Niarchos) The Enemy that

Never Was: the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace in the 1940s

(forthcoming).

Edited books:

• (with D. Katsoudas) Political Change in Greece: Before and After the

Colonels; London: Croom Helm, 1987)


“a much needed volume that fills a void”, (American Political Science

Review, 82, 3, 1988).

• (with K. Ifantis) Greece in a Changing Europe: Between European

Integration and Balkan Disintegration (Manchester, Manchester University

Press, 1996).

“high quality and very readable a very useful book”, (Journal of Common

Market Studies; March 35, 1, 1997,).

• (with G. Kazamias) Europeanization and the Southern Periphery. Published

as a special issue of South European Society and Politics, 5, 2, 2000 and also

as a book by Frank Cass, London.

“this pioneering volume is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the

impact of Europeanisation in the southern periphery of the continent and

offers more than a flavour of the heated debates taking place in these

societies” (European Review of History, 9, 2, 2002).

• Contributor and Co-editor (with C. Radaelli) The Politics of Europeanisation,

(New York, Oxford University Press, 2003).

“The Politics of Europeanization is a good introduction to the debates in

political science about the process and impact of Europeanization” (Michael

Keating, International Studies Review 6, 3, 2004).

• Editor and contributor (Introduction) to the special issue of the journal, West

European Politics, entitled The Challenge of Modernisation: Politics and

Policy in Greece; 28, 2, March 2005. Also published as a book, Politics and

Policy in Greece: The Challenge of Modernisation; London, Routledge, 2005.

• The volume above was translated into Greek and published by Okto

Publishers, Athens in 2007.


• Co-editor (with K. Dyson) of the series Political Dynamics in the European

Union, for Addison Wesley Longman, London, in the 1990s which produced

5 titles, with authors: David Allen; David Beetham; Alastair Cole; Anthony

Forster; Claudio Radaelli

Articles in refereed journals:

• “Socialists and European Integration: The Attitudes of British Labour MPs”,

European Journal of Political Research, 9, 4, 1981, pp. 407-419.

• “Elections and Parties in Greece”, Government and Opposition, 17, 2, 1982,

pp. 180-194.

• “The Greek Socialists in Power”, West European Politics, 6, 3, 1983, pp. 237-

250.

• (with N. Sonntag), “Looking Towards the 1984 European Elections:

Problems of Political Integration”, Journal of Common Market Studies, XXII,

3, March 1984, pp. 269-282.

• (with D.K. Katsoudas), “Change and Continuity in Greek Voting Behaviour”,

European Journal of Political Research, 13, 1, March 1985, pp. 27-40

• “The ‘Party-State’ in Greece and the Fall of Papandreou”, West European

Politics, 13, 1, January 1990, pp. 101-115

• “1992 – The European Challenge for US Business”, Economic Development

Quarterly, 5, 2, May 1991, pp. 104-113

• “The Challenge of Liberalization: Parties and the State in Greece After the

1993 Elections”, Democratization, 1, 2, Summer 1994, pp.280-294.

• “The Greek Election of 1993: Backwards or Forwards ?”, West European

Politics, 17, 2, April 1994, pp. 204-211.

• “Jean Monnet and the `democratic deficit’ in the European Union”, Journal of

Common Market Studies, 32, 2, June 1994, pp. 149-170.

• (with K Dyson & G Michalopoulos) “Strapped to the Mast: EC Central

Bankers Between Global Financial Markets and Regional Integration”,

Journal of European Public Policy; 2, 3, September 1995; pp. 465-487.


• (with K Dyson) “Italy and EMU as a ‘Vincolo Esterno’: Empowering the

Technocrats, Transforming the State”, South European Society and Politics, 1,

2, Autumn 1996, pp. 272-299.

• (with K Dyson) “EMU and Economic Governance in Germany”, German

Politics, 5, 3, December 1996, pp. 325-355.

• (with G Kazamias) “In the Absence of Charisma: The Greek Elections of

September 1996”, West European Politics, 20, 2, April 1997, pp. 157-164.

• “’Europeanization’ and the Centre-Periphery: The Case of Greece in the

1990s”, South European Society and Politics, 3, 1, Summer 1998, pp. 23-39.

• “Greece and the EU in the 1990s: The Challenge to the Domestic State”,

Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 22, 1998, pp. 121-135.

• (with G. Kazamias, D. Papadimitriou) “Greece and the Negotiation of

Economic and Monetary Union: Preferences, Strategies, and Institutions”,

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 18, 2, 2000, pp.393-414.

• “Cyprus and the Onset of Europeanization: strategic Usage, Structural

Transformation and Institutional Adaptation”, South European Society and

Politics, 5, 2, 2000 (co-editor of this special issue), pp. 141-165.

• (with G. Kazamias, D. Papadimitriou) “The Limits of External Empowerment:

EMU, Technocracy and Pension Reform in Greece”, Political Studies, 49, 3,

2001, pp. 462-480.

• “Greece and EMU: Between External Empowerment Band Domestic

Vulnerability”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 41, 5, December 2003;

pp.923-40.

• '"Soft" Coordination Meets "Hard" Politics: The European Union and Pension

Reform in Greece', Journal of European Public Policy, 12, 4, 2005, pp. 733-

750.

• (with D. Papadimitriou) “Manipulating Rules, Contesting Solutions:

Europeanisation and the Politics of Restructuring Olympic Airways”,

Government and Opposition, 42, 1, Winter 2007, pp. 46-72.


Chapters in edited books:

• “Labour in Europe: the Work of a National Party Delegation to the European

Parliament”, in V. Herman and M.P.C.M. van Schendelen (eds), The

European Parliament and the National Parliaments (Farnborough, Saxon-

House, 1979), pp. 81-110.

• “The French Left and Europe” (with J. Bound), in D.S. Bell (ed.),

Contemporary French Political Parties (London, Croom Helm, 1982), pp.

165-189.

• “Recent Changes in the Labour Party’s Constitution”, in L. Robins (ed.),

Topics in British Politics (London, the Politics Association, 1982), pp. 49-62.

• “Direct Elections in Greece”, in J. Lodge (ed.), Direct Elections to the

European Parliament 1984 (London, Macmillan, 1986), pp.85-107.

• “Socialist Parties and European Integration: Variations on a Common

Theme”, in W.E. Paterson and A.H. Thomas (eds.), The Future of Social

Democracy: Problems and Prospects of Social Democratic Parties in

Western Europe (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986), pp. 242-260.

• “Southern European Socialist Parties and the European Community”, in T.

Gallagher and A. Williams (eds.), Southern European Socialism (Manchester,

MUP, 1989), pp. 247-270.

• “The European Community and the Mediterranean: perspectives on the

1990s”, in J. Lodge (ed.), The European Community and the Challenge of the

Future (London, F. Pinter, 1989), pp. 186-201.

• “Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Greece”, in G. Pridham

(ed.), Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe

(London, Routledge, 1990), pp. 179-202.

• (with S. Verney) “Direct Elections in Greece”, in J. Lodge (ed.), The 1989

Direct Elections to the European Parliament (London, Macmillan, 1990), pp.

90-106.

• “The EC and the United States: Managing Interdependence”, in J. Lodge (ed.)


The European Community and the Challenge of the Future (London: Pinter,

1993) pp. 271-282.

• “Political Parties” in P. Kazakos & P. Ioakimidis (eds.), Greece and EC

Membership Evaluated, (London, Pinter, 1994), pp. 140-154.

• “EC Central Bankers, the Maastricht Treaty and Global Financial Markets” in

The Evolution of Rules for a Single European Market: Part 1 – Industry and

Finance, COST Programme A7 (Brussels, EC Commission, 1995), pp 296-

329.

• (with K Dyson) “Strapped to the Mast: EC Central Bankers Between the

Maastricht Treaty and Global Financial Markets”, in W D Coleman & G R D

Underhill (eds.), Regionalism and Global Economic Integration: Europe, Asia

and the Americas (London, Routledge, 1997), pp. 174-196.

• “Economic and Monetary Union”, in L. Cram, D. Dinan, and N. Nugent

(eds.), Developments in the European Union (London, Macmillan, 1999), pp.

311-329.

• “Participation, Citizenship and Legitimacy in the European Union”, in D.

Campbell and N. D. Lewis (eds.), Promoting Participation: Law or Politics ?

(London, Cavendish, 1999), pp. 157-174.

• “The EC and Greece: Integration and the Challenge to Centralism”, in B.

Jones & M. Keating (eds.), The European Union and the Regions (Oxford:

Clarendon, 1995), pp. 249-268.

• “The Political Dynamics of External Empowerment: the Emergence of EMU

and the Challenge to the European Social Model”, in A. Martin and G. Ross

(eds.), Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model

of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 226-247.

• (with P. Tinios) “Facing up the Gordian Knot: The Political Economy of

Pension Reform”, in M. Petmesidou and E. Mossialos (eds.) Social Policy

Developments in Greece: A Halfway House Reform. (Aldershot, Ashgate,

2006), pp. 174-193.

• “Britain and the Dynamics of Europeanisation”, in M. Flinders, C. Hay, A.

Gamble and M. Kenny (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of British Politics


(Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

• “Greece and EMU: a suitable accommodation?”, in K. Dyson (ed.) The Euro

at Ten (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Reports:

• (with K. Dyson), 1992: Who’s Ready? Research Report: European Briefing

Unit, University of Bradford; a report following research sponsored by

Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield metropolitan district councils; Horton

Publishing, September 1990, pp. iv + 86

• Bertelsmann Stiftung (2008) Bertelsmann Reform Index. Country Report:

Greece.

Other publications:

• “The British Labour Party: Nationalism and the EEC”, Contemporary Review,

238, 1380, January 1981, p. 8.

• (with J Hiden) “East meets West: Policies for a Common European Home”,

Fabian Society Discussion Paper, February 1991, pp.20

• “The EC and the Baltic States”, in Baltic Briefing (University of Bradford),

1992.

• “The EC and the USA in the 1990s”, Academy of Economics, Poznan,

Working Papers, 4, 1993.

• “The Power of the Vote: Lessons from Modern Greece”, ELIAMEP: Hellenic

Foundation for Foreign Policy and European Studies; Athens, 1995, 10 pp.

• “Cyprus and the European Union: What Kind of Membership?”, Cyprus

Review, 7,1, 1995.

• “In the Absence of Boldness: Britain and Cyprus in the 1990s”, Association

for the Study of Nationalities: Analysis of Current Events , New York, CUNY,

7, 9, May 1996.

• “Cyprus and a Multi-Speed Europe: The Politics of Differentiation”,

Conference on Cyprus in the EU, London, Hellenic Centre/LSE, October


1996.

• “Europe on Course for a Single Currency: The Challenge for the Blair

Government”, Credit Management, July 1997.

• (with D. Kern, S. Davies, and R. A. V. Staples) “A Single Currency – Good

for Europe? Good for Britain?”, RSA Journal, CXLV, 5476, January/February

1997.

• “The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union”, and “Cyprus”, in D. Dinan

(ed.), The Encyclopaedia of the European Union (London, Pinter, 1998), pp.

113-115; 143-147.

• “Europeanization in Theory and Practice”, in E. Davidson, A. Erisksson, and

J. Hallenberg (eds.), Europeanization of Security and Defence Policy, Swedish

National Defence College – ACTA B24, (Stockholm, Swedish National

Defence College, 2002).

• “Still a ‘Weak State’? Europeanization and Structural Reform in Greece”,

Cambos Cambridge Papers in Modern Greece, 12, 2004.

• Various contributions to Oxford Analytica on Greece, and on the European

Community.

Conference Papers:

• (with D. Hearl and J. Sargent) “Career Perspectives of Members of the

European Parliament”, Political Studies Association Conference, University

of Warwick, 1978.

• “The Labour Party in the European Parliament”, European Consortium for

Political Research Workshop, Grenoble, 1978.

• “Elite Interviewing Amongst Western European Parliamentarians: Some

Reflections from Experience”, European Consortium for Political Research

Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, 1982.

• “Left-wing Opposition to the European Community in Britain, France and

Greece”, presented at a University Association for Contemporary European


Studies Conference held at Edinburgh University, September 1982.

• “What has Happened to the European Community? Changing Institutional

Relations in the European Community”, 24th Annual Convention of the

International Studies Association, Mexico City, 1983.

• “Socialists and European Integration: Changing Approaches to a Developing

Process”, Political Studies Association Conference, University of Newcastle,

1983.

• “Looking Towards the 1984 European Elections in Greece”, European

Consortium for Political Research Workshop, Salzburg, 1984.

• “Southern European Socialist Parties and the European Community”, paper

presented at a conference held at the Centre for Mediterranean Studies,

University of Bristol, September 1987.

• “United States-European Community Relations: An Empirical Inquiry

Focussing On The Behaviour of National Actors”, paper presented at the

Convention of the International Studies Association, London, March-April

1989.

• “Socialist Parties and `1992’ ” Political Studies Association Annual

Conference, April 1989.

• “The Greek EC Presidency in Retrospect”, UACES Conference held at the

Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Bristol, May 1989.

• “Electoral Change and Socialist Party Responses in Southern Europe”, Round

Table panel, Political Studies Association annual conference April 1990.

• “Greece and the Single European Market: Integration and Liberalization”,

Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, University of Florida-

Gainesville, USA, 1991.

• The United States and the EC in the 1990s”, European Community Studies

Association Conference, May, George Mason University, Virginia, USA,

1991.

• “Jean Monnet and the Democratic Deficit in the EC”, Political Studies

Association Annual Conference April, Leicester, 1993.

• “Introduction”, to conference entitled ‘Greece in a Changing Europe:


Opportunities and Constraints’, held at the LSE, June 1994.

• (with K. Dyson) “Rescue or Transformation of EU States ? Bargaining

Models and EMU”, Annual Meeting of the European Consortium for Political

Research, Bordeaux, 1995.

• (with K. Dyson) “Britain and EMU: Just Say ‘No’?”, Political Studies

Association Annual Conference, Glasgow, April 1996.

• (with K. Dyson) “Interlocking Core Executives: Explaining the Negotiation of

Economic and Monetary Union”, 24th European Consortium for Political

Research, Joint Sessions of Workshops, Oslo, April 1996.

• “Greece, Britain and the EU”, Paper presented to private seminar, Foreign &

Commonwealth Office, London, April 1996.

• “Italy and EMU: A Fear of a Multi-Speed Process”, University Association for

Contemporary European Studies, May 1996.

• “Greece and the EU in the 1990s: The Challenge to the Domestic State”,

Conference on Greece and the EU, University of Birmingham, May 1997.

• “Britain and EMU: An Analysis of a Strategic Failure”, UACES Conference

on EMU, University of Leeds, March 1997.

• (with K. Dyson) “Jacques Delors and the Re-Launch of Economic and

Monetary Union: A Study of Strategic Calculation, Brokerage and Cognitive

Leadership”, European Community Studies Association, Seattle, USA, May-

June 1997.

• “The British Government and EMU: Retrospect and Prospects”, Lothian

Foundation Conference on the British Presidency of the EU, London,

December 1997.

• “The Major Government and EMU: An Analysis of a Strategic Failure”,

University Association for Contemporary European Studies, Annual

Conference, Leicester, January 1998.

• “The Governance of EMU: Monetary Power and Political Isolation”, paper

delivered for Workshop on EMU and the European Model of Society,

Brandeis University, USA, December 1998.

• “Explaining the ‘Micro-history’ of EMU: Strategic, Cognitive and


Institutionalist Dimensions”, Center for European Studies, Harvard

University, USA, December 1998.

• Rapporteur for Workshop on The Domestic Impact of EMU, Goteborg

University, Sweden, April 1999.

• “The British Labour Party from Kinnock to Blair: ‘Europeanization’ and

Europeanism”, paper delivered to ECSA Conference, Pittsburgh, June 1999.

• Rapporteur for Workshop on The Social Challenges of EMU, Observatoire

Social Europeen, Brussels, June 1999.

• “Greece and the European Union: The Limits of Europeanization”, Paper

presented to Kokklalis Foundation Conference ‘Beyond the Greek Paradox –

Greece in the Era of Globalization’, Harvard, 6-7 December 2002.

• (with D. Papadimitriou), “When do Prisoners Escape? The Limits of Social

Dialogue and Labour Market Reform in Greece.” Paper presented at the 8th

EUSA conference, 27-29, at Nashville March 2003.

• “The Politics of Pension Reform in Greece: Modernization Defeated by

Gridlock”, paper presented to Conference of the Modern Greek Studies

Association, Toronto, 16-18 October 2003.

• “The Political Dynamics of External Empowerment: the Emergence of EMU

and the Challenge to the European Social Model”, paper presented to the

Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2004.

• “Greece and the Euro: the Challenge to Governability”, British Academy

Conference, Cardiff University, May 2006.

• “Greece and Italy: is there a Mediterranean World of EMU?”, paper presented

at the conference European States and the Euro: The First Decade A

Conference, British Academy, May 2007.

• “Can Europe have Purposive Leadership?”, presentation at ECCD

Conference, ‘The European Political Ideal: Cultural Origins and Future

Prospects’, Delphi, 23 July 2007.

• (with D. Papadimitriou) “Between Europeanization and a Greek Variety of

Capitalism: Public Policy Making and Structural Reform in Modern Greece”,

Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association, Yale University, 18-21


October 2007.

Lectures and seminar presentations:

� University of Edinburgh, Department of Politics/Continuing Education,

June 1984.

� University of Strathclyde, Department of History, December 1984.

� University of Warwick, Department of Politics, October 1986.

� British Council, Athens, April 1987 (‘Political Change in Greece: Before

and after the Colonels’).

� University of Essex, Department of Government, March 1989.

� Columbia University, Institute on Western Europe, October 1990.

� City University of New York, Graduate School, Center for Hellenic

Studies, December 1990.

� Cornell University, Western Societies Program, March 1991.

� New School for Social Research, New York, Seminar Series on Western

Europe, April 1991.

� New York University, Department of Politics, April 1991.

� University of Glasgow, Department of Politics Staff Seminar, December

1991.

� University of Leeds, Politics/Slavonic Studies, February 1993.

� University of Poznan, Academy of Economics, Poland, Staff Seminar,

March 1993.

� Foundation for Hellenic Culture, Royal Overseas League, London,

Inaugural Lecture (“The Power of the Vote: Lessons from Modern

Greece”), 1994.

� “Building Democracy: Parties and the State in Post-War Greece”, St.

Catharine’s College, Cambridge, March 1996.

� “Britain and EMU”, paper to conference of the Royal Society for the Arts,

Leeds, October 1996.

� “Greece and the EU in the 1990s: Liberalization, Sovereignty”, King’s

College London, March 1997.


� An invited participant in the ECSA World Conference, September,

Brussels, 1998.

� “The Re-emergence of EMU”, seminar presentation at the Department of

Politics and International Relations, University of Latvia, November 1998.

� “Greece and the ‘Europeanization’ process”, Seminar presentation at

ELIAMEP (Institute for International Relations), Athens, October 1998.

� “The Experience of Southern Europe”, Summer School on

Europeanisation, University of Crete, September 2001.

� “Greece in the European Union: Still an Awkward Partner? Still a weak

state?”; Lecture at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece, for the Hellenic

Centre for European Studies (EKEM), October 2002.

� “Still a weak state? Europeanization and Structural Reform in Greece”,

Special Modern Greek Lecture, King’s College London, 17 March 2003.

� “The 2003 Greek EU Council Presidency: Between Disintegration and

Consensus-building”, UACES Conference on Greek EU Presidency, LSE,

14 November 2003.

� Lecture at University of Cyprus.

� Lecture at Oxford University Greek Students’ Society.

� “The Concept and Application of “Europeanization”’, Marmara

University, Istanbul, keynote address to open Jean Monnet Conference on

‘Europeanisation’, May 2004.

� Koc University, Istanbul, lecture on EU programme, Turkey, May 2004

� “Europeanisation and Economic Governance”, Halki Seminar of

ELIAMEP (Athens), supported by EU Commission, June 2004.

� University of Michigan, Third Pallas Annual Lecture in Modern Greek

Studies, “The Metapolitefsi at 30: Why is Greece Becoming Harder to

Govern?” 17 February 2005.

� “The Idea of “Europe”’, presentation to the Forum for European

Philosophy, Brooks Club, London, March 2005.


� University of Athens, European programme, “Europeanisation and the

Politics of Structural Reform: the Case of Olympic Airways”, March

2005.

� American College of Thessaloniki, public lecture, June 2005.

� “The Europeanisation of Turkey”, paper presented at the Turkish

Relations conference, Bilgi University, Turkey, June 2006.

� “The Simitis Project and the Politics of Structural Reform”, lecture,

University of Cambridge, February 2006.

� “The Limits of Europe”, lecture, University of Athens, Department of

Political Science and Public Administration, January 2007.

� “Karamanlis as a European Leader: Adaptation and Emulation”,

Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Constantine

Karamanlis, Zappeion Hall, Athens, June 2007.

� “The Leadership of Karamanlis: Locating Him in Europe”, Hellenic

Centre panel presentation, December 2007.

� “The Limits of Europeanisation and Varieties of Capitalism”, University

of Manchester, 6 February 2008.

� “The Limits of Europeanisation: Explaining Domestic Reform”, keynote

lecture, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey, March 2008.

� “The Limits of Europeanisation and Economic Reform Capacity”,

seminar, University of Hull, Centre for European Union Studies, April

2008.

Professional Recognition:

Journal Editing and Editorial Board Membership

• Member of three editorial advisory boards (Journal of European Integration;

South European Society and Politics; and Journal of Modern Greek Studies);

• Regularly reviewed manuscripts for journals, including: European Journal of

Political Research; Government & Opposition; Journal of Common Market

Studies; Journal of European Public Policy; Journal of Public Policy;


Political Studies; West European Politics.

Professional Activities and Consultancies

• Participant in several Anglo-German Konigswinter conferences.

• Participant in several EU policy seminars for the Labour Party in the 1980s.

• Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in 1997 and a keynote

speaker in a debate on EMU organised by them.

• Invited to be rapporteur on two projects on EMU in 1999 based at Goteborg

University and at the Observatoire Social Europeen, Brussels.

• Appointed as an external assessor by the Ministry of Education (Greece) for a

research assessment review of its National Centre for Social Research

(EKKE); October 2000.

• Appointed as an external assessor by the University of Cyprus for a personnel

promotions committee, December 2000.

• Invited to present evidence on EMU to the House of Lords Select Committee

on the EC.

• Participant in private briefing seminars on Greece at the Foreign and

Commonwealth Office, several occasions.

• External Advisor in external accreditation and review exercises at several UK

universities.

• Appointed by the Quality Assurance Agency as a subject reviewer for Politics

provision in the UK, 2000-01.

• External Advisor to selection committees at the University of Essex (2006)

and the University of Sussex (2005).

• External Assessor for senior appointment at the Open University, Cyprus,

2007.

• Acted as an assessor or referee for research grant applications to a number of

bodies, notably the AHRB, British Academy, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and

Nuffield Foundation.


External Examining Experience (in chronological order):

• External Examiner, Politics, Coventry University.

• External Examiner, Politics, University of Hull.

• External Examiner, Government, University of Manchester.

• External Examiner, Government/European Studies, University of Essex.

• External Examiner, BA programme, Department of Byzantine and Modern

Greek Studies, King’s College London.

• External Examiner, BA programme, Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity,

University of Birmingham.

• Examined over 25 PhD theses at various UK universities.

Media interviews & Press articles:

• Articles in: The Times (20 August 1980); The Scotsman (1 August 1980, 10

August 1983, 11 August 1983); AEU Journal (October 1988); Epikendra

(Athens; several issues); New Socialist (March 1988); Today (21 September

1992); The Times Higher Education Supplement.

• Interviewed by various media organizations on European politics (e.g. New

York Public Radio; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; German TV; Tokyo

Financial Daily; Radio Scotland; local radio).

• Interviewed and consulted on Greek matters by television and radio

journalists (e.g. BBC World Service; BBC World TV; BBC News24; ‘Today’-

BBC Radio Four; ‘Newsnight’ – BBC2; ABC – Australia; Flash Radio and

Athens Public Radio, Athens), as well as by newspaper journalists (e.g. The

Observer; The Independent).

Recent personal interviews in press:

• Interviews in Cyprus e.g. Seli (28 October 1994); Cyprus Weekly (29 October,


1999), O Philelevtheros, (7 November 1999).

• Interview in TA NEA, Greek National Newspaper, 24/1/2004

• Interview in EXPRESS, Greek Economic Newspaper, October 2002

• Interview in APOGEVMATINI, Greek Daily Newspaper, 27/06/2004

• Interview in ELEFTHEROS TYPOS Greek Daily Newspaper, 6/12/2004.

• Interview in TA NEA, Greek National Newspaper, 7/12/2007

Previous Research Awards and Funding:

• Offered a Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and research in the USA.

• External research funding has been obtained from: the SSRC; The Carnegie

Trust; Nuffield Foundation; British Academy; Leverhulme Foundation;

ESRC. Research funding has also been obtained from a wider variety of

sources: for example, the European Parliament, the EC Commission; three

local authorities, a local newspaper; the Ministry of Education (Greece); The

Hellenic Foundation; The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.

More specifically:

• SSRC research grant (E00232115) held between 1984 and 1986 and it

facilitated fieldwork in each of the then EC member states. Led to book

Socialist Parties and European Integration: A Comparative History,

published by Manchester University Press in 1988.

• One of several grants from The Nuffield Foundation supported fieldwork in

the USA and led to book, The United States and the European Community in

the 1990s, written with Roy Ginsberg, and published by Macmillan / St

Martin’s (1993, 1996).

• An ESRC research grant (R000234793) was held between 1993-96 in

conjunction with my colleague, Kenneth Dyson. A letter of 24 September

1997 informed us that our research had been evaluated as “Outstanding: High


quality research making an important contribution to the development of the

subject”. The research was entitled Dynamics of European Monetary

Integration: Developing the EMS and EMU 1987-1994. The research

involved some 275 personal interviews with senior politicians, central

bankers, and diplomats across the EU, as well as archival work of personal

papers.

• A small grant from The Nuffield Foundation was awarded in January 1999 for

a project on Greece and EMU. This led to two articles: Journal of Modern

Greek Studies; Political Studies.

• Awarded a senior Fellowship award by the Alexander S. Onassis Public

Benefit Foundation for fieldwork in Athens in 2001-2.

• In 2001, the Centre for Europeanisation Studies at the University of Bradford,

which I headed with Claudio Radaelli, received an award from the EC

Commission (110k) as a ‘Marie Curie Training Site’.

Recent Research Awards and External Funding:

• Awarded a research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of

the UK in 2006 for a project entitled, ‘The Enemy that Never Was: the

Muslim Minority in Western Thrace in the 1940s’ (Grant: AH/D502616/1).

As Director of the LSE’s Hellenic Observatory, responsible for:

• establishing a new programme of visiting research fellowships (from

‘post-doc’ to senior), with substantial external funding;

• a series of conferences, lectures and research workshops and seminars,

attracting over 7,000 participants since 2002.

• the creation of a new five year lectureship, externally-funded.

• Lead for a funding search to establish an endowed Chair on Turkey at the

LSE; completed 2006.

• Lead for the establishment of a new research ‘centre’ at the LSE focussing on


South East Europe; obtained a major new research fund and a new five year

SL/Reader post.

Previous Administrative Experience:

Indicative cases:

• Elected member of Senate whilst at the University of Stirling.

• Member of Faculty Board, University of Bradford.

• Director of Masters and Doctoral Programmes, Department of European Studies,

University of Bradford. Both had the highest level of recognition from the ESRC,

with three quota awards at the M.A. level. The two programmes soon established

themselves as amongst the largest in their field (European politics, history) in the

UK.

• Chair of the Research & PG Committee in the Department of European Studies,

University of Bradford. In each of the Research Assessment Exercises (RAE), the

Department received a ranking of ‘5’, indicating international excellence in

research.

• Joint Head, Centre for Europeanisation Studies at the University of Bradford. In

2001, the latter was awarded the status of a ‘Marie Curie Training Site’ by the EC

Commission, with funding to support visits by foreign research students.

• Head of the Department of European Studies at the University of Bradford, 2001-

2.

Recent Administrative Experience:

• LSE: Director, Hellenic Observatory, 2002-.

• This has involved the establishment of substantial external funding and

a public events programme attracting over 7,000 participants since

2002, as well as the management of research projects.


• LSE: Member of Promotions Committee, 2003-4.

• LSE: led the search for external funding to establish a newly endowed Chair in

Contemporary Turkish Studies, completed 2006.

• LSE: Chair of APRC Review of the Library, 2007.

• LSE: Head, European Institute, 2004-7.

• LSE: Co-Convenor, Heads Forum, 2006-7.

• LSE: served on various selection committees, sometimes as Chair.

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