Lorand Bartels is University Lecturer in International Law and Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge and a leading expert in the EU on legal aspects of regional trade agreements and their relationship to the multilateral trading order. He organised a major international conference on this theme in 2005 and has edited a book on the subject which will be published by Oxford University Press in December 2006. Since 2007, he has also been advising the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in their negotiations on new Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU. Dr Bartels is a regular visitor to Canada, involved in SSHRC-funded research with Armand de Mestral.
Thomas Christiansen is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of European Public Administration in Maastricht. His research work deals with governance issues in the EU, including the role of major EU institutions and how they relate to theories of European integration. From 2000-2003 he was the lead European partner in a European-Canadian Transatlantic Consortium on Multilevel governance, federalism and European integration sponsored by HRDC/European Commission (involving UVic, Carleton, and McGill). He contributes to the Governance theme of the Cluster.
Renaud Dehousse is a Jean Monnet Professor at the Paris Political Studies Institute (Sciences Po) and Director of its European Institute. He has been a consultant for several European Union offices. His research work focuses on comparative federalism and the institutional evolution of the EU and most recently on governance transformation in the European Union and also on the Court of Justice. His contributes to the Governance theme of the Cluster in relation to comparative federalism.
Jorgen Elklit is Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. His research work relates to political participation and he is the author of a recent book on the subject in Denmark as well as a paper “Why is Turnout Not Declining in Denmark”. He does consulting work with Cluster partner International IDEA on electoral institutions and practices in various countries. He works with Cluster collaborator Lawrence LeDuc and participant Jon Pammett on research regarding ways to maintain or increase political and electoral participation.
Thomas Faist (Bielefeld, Germany) is the Director of the Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development and one of Germany's leading specialists in research on migration, ethnic relations, and trans-nationalization. Having spent a one year fellowship at the University of Toronto he will continue his involvement in the Immigration/Citizenship thematic group in the Cluster.
Andrew Geddes (Sheffield, UK) is one of Europe's leading experts on immigration politics in the EU. He has collaborated with participants in the Immigration/Citizenship theme of the Cluster in the past (conferences, publications, and workshops with Randall Hansen) and is committed to continuing this collaboration.
Maria Golubeva (Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS, Riga) is involved in ongoing collaboration with the Cluster dealing with the Immigration/Citizenship theme in the New Member States, in particular issues of participation and citizenship regarding minority groups in Europe.
Mitya Hafner-Fink is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lubljana. He participates in the design and implementation of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) through the Public Opinion and Mass Communication research laboratory at his university. Carleton researchers have collaborated with him for several years through the ISSP, particularly in relation to development of a ISSP module on citizenship.
Hannsjoerg Herr is a trained economist from Berlin, Germany, who has published widely on currency theories and policies, in particular on the Euro and the European Central bank. He is the co-director of the Institute for Global Macroeconomics at the Berlin School for Economics.
He has co-authored a book on currency policies with Kurt Huebner.
Helmut Hubel holds the Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Dr. Hubel has published extensively on EU-Russian relations and the Eastern enlargement of the EU and has collaborated with Cluster scholars at Carleton and UBC (joint publications, conferences) in the thematic area dealing with new foreign policy challenges arising out of EU enlargement.
Markus Kaim (German Institute for International Politics and Security, Berlin) focuses his research on trans-Atlantic security relations; Canada-EU relations; security and defense policy of the EU; and US and Canadian foreign policy. He participated in a policy workshop organized by the Cluster in June 2006 and is keen to continue his joint work with Canadian scholars.
Franz Kernic is a senior fellow at the Austrian Institute for Strategy and Security Policy and an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck. His research concerns European security policy, the nature of the EU as an international actor, trans-Atlantic relations, and public opinion and European security. In 2007 he will return to Carleton University as a European scholar-in-residence to teach courses and to participate in the Cluster theme on new foreign policy challenges.
Norbert Kersting - is currently Willy Brandt Chair in the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and has held appointments at the universities of Kassel and Marburg. His research interests include voter turnout in Germany; he is participating with LeDuc and Pammett in their SSHRC-funded project “Bringing the Voter Back In”.
Bruno Palier is a CNRS Researcher at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po (Paris). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard in 2001. His research focuses on globalization, the EU, and the restructuring of health care and social security systems in Europe. Bruno Palier comes to Canada on a regular basis to consult with Canadian colleagues on these issues, particularly through the Montreal/McGill Centre.
Philippe Pochet is the Director of the Observatoire social européen and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). He is an affiliate of the Centre of European Studies at the ULB (Free University of Brussels) and the Digest Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy (Sage). His research focuses on European monetary integration, the social dialogue, social policy, employment issues, and the open method of coordination. Philippe Pochet comes to Canada on a regular basis to consult with Canadian colleagues on these issues, particularly through the Montreal/McGill Centre.
Karin Schittenhelm represents the network of the study groups in migration and integration studies funded by the German Volkswagen Foundation with whom Cluster scholars collaborate through Oliver Schmidtke of the University of Victoria. Schittenhelm is a leading researcher in the area of international, comparative research on the labour market integration of immigrants
Terry Terriff is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Graduate School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. A Canadian citizen, he participated in a policy workshop organized by the Knowledge Cluster in June 2006. His primary areas of research include change in military organisations, with a current focus on NATO; environmental security and non-traditional security issues; and international peacekeeping.
Thomas Christiansen, Senior Lecture, European Institute of Public Administration
- t.christiansen@eipa-nl.com
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+31 43 3296 296
Fields of Specialisation: EU decision-making; comitology and the role of committees in the EU; European Commission; Council of Ministers; theories of European integration
Ingeborg Toemmel is a Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Her research focuses on governance, policy-making and system-building in the EU. She spent the 2005-06 year at the University of Victoria on a John G. Diefenbaker Award (Canada Council for the Arts). She collaborates in the Transatlantic Research group with Amy Verdun and Michelle Egan.
Jan Winter is the senior Professor of EU Law, Free University of Amsterdam. He first distinguished himself with seminal work on the central concepts of direct application and direct effect of EC law. He is a leading authority in Europe on the law of state aids, government procurement and EU competition law, and has frequently been sent by the European Commission to lecture on admission to the EU in Central Europe. A frequent visitor to Canada, he has taught at McGill University, is involved in SSHRC funded research with Armand de Mestral and has written comparative articles on the Canadian and EU constitutions in cooperation with de Mestral.
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