Achim Hurrelmann
Comparative Politics; Politics of the European Union; Democratic and state theory
- Dipl.-Pol. (Hamburg) PhD (Bremen)
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Achim Hurrelmann is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies (CES), a Carleton University Research Centre. He is cross-appointed to the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS). He served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from 2021 to 2024 and as Director of EURUS from 2014 to 2018.
Achim’s scholarly work examines political contestation about regional and global governance, especially in the European Union (EU), which he has studied with a focus on communication in parliaments, the media, and among citizens. He has also published on multilevel governance, the politics of trade, and Canada-Europe relations. Achim is principal investigator of the Research Network on Trade Politics in North America and Europe, funded through a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2026-33). He has also been awarded several grants from the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme, most recently for the Jean Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Politics (2020-24) and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Carleton University (2023-26). His research articles have appeared in some of the leading academic journals in the field, including European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Integration, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Geopolitics.
Achim enjoys teaching at all academic levels. He regularly offers PSCI 1100 (Democracy in Theory and Practice), PSCI 3207 (Politics of the European Union), PSCI 5103/EURR 5108 (Canada-EU Relations), and PSCI 6105 (Comparative Politics I). With Amy Verdun and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, he has co-edited European Union Governance and Policy Making: A Canadian Perspective (University of Toronto Press, second edition 2023), a textbook on EU politics focused explicitly on a Canadian readership. He has won several teaching and research awards, including the Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Excellence Award (2011), the Carleton University Excellence in Blended and Online Teaching Award (2019), the Carleton University Student Association Teaching Excellence Award (2021), and the Faculty of Public Affairs Research Excellence Award (2024).
Selected Publications (see CV for full list)
Settled Unsettlements: Constitutional Abeyances in the Crisis Governance of the European Union. Agenda Publishing/Edinburgh University Press (2026).
‘Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective’, Geopolitics, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2026), 1-24 (co-authored with Ece Özlem Atikcan and Gabriel Siles-Brügge).
‘How Does Politicisation Affect the Ratification of Mixed EU Trade Agreements? The Case of CETA’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2024), 157-181 (co-authored with Frank Wendler).
‘Brexit: A Critical Juncture for Canada’s Transatlantic Relations?’, Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2024), 4-25.
‘Eurosphere or Anglosphere? Canadian Public Opinion on Brexit and the Future of Transatlantic Relations’, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 54, No. 3 (2021), 571-592 (co-authored with Frédéric Mérand and Stephen E. White).
‘Demoi-cracy: A Useful Framework for Theorizing the Democratization of Multilevel Governance?’, in: Nathalie Behnke, Jörg Broschek and Jared Sonnicksen, eds., Configurations, Dynamics and Mechanisms of Multilevel Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 293-310 (co-authored with Joan DeBardeleben).
‘Framing the Eurozone Crisis in National Parliaments: Is the Economic Cleavage Really Declining?’, Journal of European Integration, Vol. 42, No. 4 (2020), 489-507 (co-authored with Stephanie Kerr, Anna Gora and Philip Eibl).
‘Legitimacy and European Union Politics’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press (2019), DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1112.
‘The Eurozone Crisis and Citizen Engagement in EU Affairs’, West European Politics, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2016), 104-124 (co-authored with Sebastian Baglioni).
‘The Politicization of European Integration: More than an Elite Affair?’, Political Studies, Vol. 63, No. 1 (2015), 43-59 (co-authored with Anna Gora and Andrea Wagner).