Professor Alex Warleigh-Lack

Biography

I joined the School of Politics at the University of Surrey in October 2011. My current role is Professor of EU Politics, and also Executive Director of CRONEM.

I previously held chairs at Brunel University (2006-11) and the University of Limerick (2004-6). Before that, I was Deputy Director of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen’s University Belfast 2001-2003, and before that I was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Reading (1997-2001). I worked in the European Parliament as Adviser to Ken Collins MEP, the then Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Consumer Protection and Public Health 1996-7.

I was Chair of UACES, the world’s largest EU studies association, 2006-9. See www.uaces.org

Research Interests

I have three main research interests.

The first is the politics of European integration, with particular regard to legitimacy and institutional reform.

The second is comparative regional integration, particularly regarding the EU, ASEAN, APEC and NAFTA.

The third is Green Politics, and in particular the application of Green Theory (Deep Ecology and Gaia Theory) to regional integration.

Research Collaborations

I am currently involved in three collaborative research projects.

The first is with partners at Karlstad University, Sweden, in a project which evaluates the success of regional development policy in three Swedish regions.

On the second project, I am working with Associate Professor Philomena Murray (University of Melbourne) and Professor Baogang He (Deakin University) on a comparison of the UK and Australia as ‘awkward partners’ in regional integration.

The third project focuses on the creation of a study network on comparative regional integration. The co-director of the network is Dr Uwe Wunderlich (Aston University). The network’s website can be found here

Publications

Selected Publications

Single-Authored Books 

1. The Committee of the Regions: Institutionalising Multi-level Governance? London: Kogan Page, 1999, 72pp

2. Flexible Integration: Which Model for the European Union? London: Continuum, 2002, 125pp

3. Democracy in the European Union: Theory, Practice and Reform London: Sage, 2003,155pp

4. European Union: The Basics London: Routledge, 2004, 145pp

5. European Union: The Basics (2nd ed: completely revised and updated, with three new chapters) London: Routledge, 2008, 173pp. Korean translation, 2011.

Edited Volumes 

1. (with David Howarth) The State of the Art: Theoretical Approaches to the EU in the Post-Amsterdam Era. Special Issue of Current Politics and Economics of Europe (9:2), 2000

2. (with Richard Bellamy) Citizenship and Governance in the European Union London: Continuum, 2001, 213pp

3. Understanding European Union Institutions London: Routledge, 2002, 202pp

4. (with Jenny Fairbrass) Influence and Interests in the European Union: The New Politics of Persuasion and Advocacy London: Europa, 2003, 219pp

5. (with Michelle Cini) Interdisciplinarity and Political Science .Symposium Issue of European Political Science (8:1), 2009.

6. (with David Phinnemore) Reflections on European Integration Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009, 254pp

7. (with Luk Van Langenhove) Comparative Regional Integration: Challenges for EU Studies (special issue of Journal of European Integration (36:2), 2010

8. (with Nick Robinson and Ben Rosamond) European Studies and the New Regionalisms: Comparisons, Dialogues and New Research Directions London: Routledge, 2011, 289pp

Refereed Journal Articles

1.‘A Committee of No Importance? Assessing the Relevance of the Committee of the Regions’. Politics 17:2, 1997, pp. 101-7.

2. (with Ken Collins and Charlotte Burns) ‘Policy Entrepreneurs: European Parliament Committees and the Making of EU Policy’. Statute Law Review 19:1, 1998, pp. 1-11.

3. ‘Better the Devil You Know? Synthetic and Confederal Understandings of European Integration’. West European Politics 21:3, 1998, pp. 1-18.

4. ‘Frozen: Citizenship and European Unification’. Critical Review of International and Social Political Philosophy 1:4, 1998, pp. 113-51.

5. (with Richard Bellamy) ‘From an Ethics of Integration to an Ethics of Participation: Citizenship and the Future of the European Union’. Millennium 27:3, 1998, pp. 447-70.

6. (with David Howarth) ‘Introduction: EU Theory at the Turn of the Century’. Current Politics and Economics of Europe 9:2, 2000, pp. 117-20.

7. ‘History Repeating? Framework Theory and Europe’s Multi-level Confederation’. Journal of European Integration 23:2, 2000, pp. 173-200.

8. ‘The Hustle: Citizenship Practice, NGOs and Policy Coalitions in the European Union – The Cases of Auto Oil, Drinking Water and Unit Pricing’. Journal of European Public Policy 7:2, 2000, pp. 229-43.

9. ‘Europeanizing Civil Society: NGOs as Agents of Political Socialization’. Journal of Common Market Studies 39:4, 2001, pp 619-39.

10. ‘Spinning Around: Rethinking a “Europe of the Regions” in the Light of Flexibility’. Comparative European Politics 1.1, 2003, pp. 49-66.

11. ‘In Defence of Intra-disciplinarity: ‘European Studies’, the ‘New Regionalism’ and The Issue of Democratisation’. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 17.2, 2004, pp. 301-18.

12. ‘Enlargement and Normative Reform in the European Union: The Example of Flexibility’. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behaviour 8:1, 2005, 103-23.

13. ‘Learning from Europe? EU Studies and the Re-thinking of International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations 12:1, 2006, 31-51.

14. ‘Towards a Conceptual Framework for Regionalisation: Bridging “New Regionalism” and “Integration Theory”’, Review of International Political Economy, 13:5, 2006, 750-771.

15. (with Michelle Cini) ‘Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Politics’, European Political Science, 8:1, 2009, 4-15.

16. (with Ben Rosamond) ‘Across the EU Studies-New Regionalism Frontier: Invitation to a Dialogue’, Journal of Common Market Studies  48:4, 2010, 993-1013.

17. (with Luk Van Langenhove): ‘Rethinking EU Studies: The Contribution of Comparative Regionalism’, Journal of European Integration 32:6, 2010, 541-62.

18. ‘Greening the European Union for Legitimacy? A Cautionary Reading of Europe 2020’, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science, 23:4, 2010, 297-311.

19. ‘Greening the EU and Europe 2020: A Response to Read, Prins and Pohoryles’, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science, 23:4, 2010, 327-32.

20. (with Ralf Drachenberg) ‘Spillover in a Soft Policy Era? Evidence from the Open Method of Coordination in Education and Training Policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, 18:7, 2011, 999-1015.

21. (with Malin Stegmann McCallion): ‘Usages of Europe and Europeanisation:
Evidence from the Regionalisation of Sweden’, Journal of European Integration, forthcoming (accepted 29 May 2011).

22. ‘Greening EU Studies: An Academic Manifesto’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, forthcoming 2012 (accepted 15 August 2011).

Teaching

I teach two MA modules (POLM025 Institutions of the European Union, POLM006 Theorising European Integration) and one BA module (POL3062 Green Politics – Challenges of Climate Change).

Departmental Duties

I am Executive Director of CRONEM, and also Director of External Relations for the School of Politics.

The CRONEM home page is http://www.surrey.ac.uk/cronem/

Affiliations

I am an Associate Fellow of the United Nations Centre for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges. The web site for UNU-CRIS can be found at: http://www.cris.unu.edu/

I am also a member of the Academy of Social Science.