Author Biography
THOMAS CHRISTIANSEN is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam of European Institutional Politics at the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. EMIL KIRCHNER is Jean Monnet ad personam Professor, University of Essex, UK. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2002, and was elected an Academician of the Social Sciences by the Academy of Social Science in 2009. PHILOMENA MURRAY is Jean Monnet Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She holds honorary positions at the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin; the College of Europe; United Nations University - Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
