Professor Neil Nugent
Academic and Research Career
Prof Neil Nugent has been Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration in the Department of Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, since 1993. During his long career, he has held many visiting professorial appointments in both Europe and the United States. Since 2009, he has been Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI) at the University of Bonn, where he has also been a Visiting Professor; since 2004 he has been Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges.
Prof. Nugent holds degrees from the University of Kent and the University of Newcastle; he has also taught at the Open University and the University of Manchester. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Politics, published by Blackwell; he has also been a member of the International Advisory Board of European Union Politics (2000-04), published by Sage.
Among his numerous advisory and consultative roles, since September 2004 he has been Academic Director of the Institute of European Union Studies of the State University of New York (SUNY), and since 2007 Associate Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, the latter a partnership between the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford.
He was elected a CES Research Fellow in April 2011.
Research Interests
While his early research concentrated on British politics, Prof. Nugent’s research now focuses mainly on European Union policy and the European integration process. He is currently working on co-authored books on the policies of the European Union and the European Commission.
Recent Publications (Selected)
Books
Co-authored with David Lowe, The Left in France (Macmillan: London, 1982).
The Government and Politics of the European Community (Palgrave-Macmillan: London 1989, 10th ed. 2010).
Editor, The European Union. Volume 1: Perspectives and Theoretical Interpretations (Dartmouth, 1997), and, The European Union. Volume 2: Policy Processes (Dartmouth, 1997).
The European Commission (Palgrave-Macmillan: London, 2001)
Editor, European Union Enlargement (Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2004).
Journal Articles and Working Papers
‘Cyprus and the European Union: The Significance of Being Small’. Centre for Small State Studies, Occasional Paper 1-2003, ISSN 1670-4290, 22 pp.
Review article: ‘A New Look at the Cyprus Problem’, International Studies Review, Vol.5 (2003), pp. 245-47.
‘Cyprus and the European Union: The Significance of its Smallness, Both as an Applicant and a Member’, Journal of European Integration, 28, No. 1 (2006), pp. 51-71.
‘The EU’s Response to Turkey’s Membership Application: Not Just a Weighing of Costs and Benefits’, Journal of European Integration, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2007), pp. 481-502.
‘The UK and the Lisbon Treaty’, E-Pol, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2008), pp. 18-21.
‘The United Kingdom, the European Union, and the Lisbon Treaty: That Will do Nicely!’ Revista de Estudos Europeus, Vol. 2, No. 4 (2009), pp 49-58.
Book Chapters
‘Political Dynamics in the Enlarged European Union’, in Constantine Stephanou (ed.), Adjusting to EU Enlargement: Recurring Issues in a New Setting (Edward Elgar, 2006), pp. 91-108.
Co-authored with Liesbet Hooghe, ‘The Commission’s Services’, in John Peterson & Michael Shackleton (eds.), The Institutions of the European Union, (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006), pp. 147-68.
‘Turkey’s Membership Application: Implications for the EU’, in Joaquín Roy & Roberto Domínguez (eds.), Towards the Completion of Europe (University of Miami, 2006), pp. 245-66.
With Janet Mather, ‘The United Kingdom: Critical Friend and Awkward Partner?’ in Eleanor E. Zeff & Ellen. B. Pirro (eds.), The European Union and the Member States (Lynne Rienner, 2nd ed., 2006), pp. 129-50.
Co-authored with Ian Bache, ‘Europe’, in Anthony Seldon (ed.), Blair’s Britain (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007), pp. 529-50.
Co-authored with David Phinnemore, ‘The United Kingdom: Red Lines Defended’, in Maurizio Carbone (ed.), National Politics and European Integration: From the Constitution to the Lisbon Treaty (Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. 71-89.
Contact
Prof. Nugent can be contacted via the Centre for European Security or at n.nugent@mmu.ac.uk.
