Limerick 2006

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Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2006
Visions of Europe: Key Problems, New Trajectories
UACES 36th Annual Conference and 11th Research Conference

Invited Speakers

In addition to the research papers to be presented at Limerick, there are a number of plenary and keynote speakers, as listed below.

Keynote Opening Address: Conference Patron
Pat Cox TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH GIVEN AT UACES CONFERENCE

Plenary 1 - Communicating Europe with the Citizen
Elizabeth Meehan (chair), Carlos Closa Montero, Francis Jacobs, William Wallace

Plenary 2 - Europe: The View from Other Global Regions
Ben Rosamond (chair), Daniel Bach, Linda Low, Nicola Phillips

Plenary 3 - Future Trajectories
Brigid Laffan (chair), Jens-Peter Bonde MEP, Helen Wallace, John Kerr

JCMS Annual Review Lecture - The 'Governance Turn' in European Studies
Beate Kohler-Koch and Berthold Rittberger

Daniel Bach (University of Bordeaux, France)
Daniel Bach is Director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a professor at Sciences Po Bordeaux. He holds the Habiliation à Diriger des Recherches (Bordeaux I University), a D.Phil from Oxford University, a DES from Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) University and the Diploma of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Grenoble II University. He has taught at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife-Ife (Nigeria), the University of Montréal, ISCTE in Lisbon, Boston University and Ritsumeikan University. A former Director of CEAN, he was a Deakin Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Fulbright scholar (Boston University). He has published on the political economy of Nigerian federalism; the foreign policies of Nigeria and South Africa; regional institutions and the regionalisation processes in Africa; the interactions between Africa's regionalization and the globalization of the world economy; relations between France, the European Union and Africa (bilaterally and through the Lomé conventions). He is currently preparing on a book on Africa and international relations theory. A number of his publications may be consulted at: http://www.cean.u-bordeaux.fr/page%20perso/bach.htm

Jens-Peter Bonde (Danish MEP)
Jens-Peter Bonde was born March 27, 1948 in Aabenraa in the South of Denmark.

Education and political activity:
1966: Student from Aabenraa Statsskole.
1966: Student at Political Science at the University of Aarhus.
1972: Co-founder of the "Peoples Movement against the EEC".
1972: Working at the Danish magazine NOTAT.
1974: Co-founder of the Danish magazine "Det ny Notat". Editor until 1979.

In the European Parliament:
1979: Member of the Parliament since the first election.
1991: Co-founder of "Denmark '92".
1992: Co-founder of the "JuneMovement".
1999: Chairman of the EDD-Group - Europe of Democracies and Diversities.
2004: Chairman of the IND/DEM-Group - Independence and Democracy Group.

Works:
Jens-Peter Bonde is the author of 55 books written in Danish and five in English.
The latest book is a reader-friendly edition of the proposed EU-Constitution. You can find the complete list of books at www.bonde.com Some of the books you can download for free. Jens-Peter Bonde has also been greatly involved in the website www.euabc.com

Carlos Closa Montero (Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid, Spain)
Deputy Director at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC), Madrid; member of the Venice Commission for Democracy through Law (Council of Europe). He taught at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics, and a M.A. in European integration and cooperation by the University of Hull (UK). He has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies (Harvard University) and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges). He is Associated Researcher at the Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos (RIE). Main research and publication areas are EU citizenship, the EU constitutional structure and the relationship with the Member States. He has published in Common Market Law Review, Journal of European Integration, Law and Philosophy, Comparative European Politics, among others or the Revista de Estudios Políticos (in Spanish). Latest publications are Spain and the EU (London: Palgrave, 2004), with Paul Heywood (University of Nottingham), and editor of La europeización del sistema político español (Madrid: Istmo, 2001), La Constitución de la UE (Madrid: CEPC, 2005). www.cepc.es

Pat Cox (President, European Movement International, Former President of the European Parliament)
TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH GIVEN AT UACES CONFERENCE (Adobe PDF document size: 65Kb)
Pat Cox is President of the International European Movement (www.europeanmovement.org) and Managing Partner of European Integration Solutions, a Washington DC - Brussels based transatlantic consulting firm. (patcox@eu-is.com)
He served as President of the European Parliament from January 2002 until July 2004. During his Presidency he campaigned ceaselessly throughout Europe to promote the enlargement of the European Union, including vigorous campaigning in the Irish referendum on the Nice Treaty and the subsequent accession referenda throughout Central and Eastern Europe. He was the European Parliament's senior representative on the Intergovernmental Conference leading to the adoption of the proposed new Constitutional Treaty.
Starting in 1989 Pat Cox was first elected to the European Parliament as a Member for the constituency of Munster in the Republic of Ireland. He was elected three times to Parliament and served, among others, on the Economic and Monetary Affairs, Institutional Affairs, and Legal Affairs Committees of the European Parliament.
He was President of the European Liberal Democrat Group from 1998 to 2002 and played a decisive role in the demise of the Santer Commission on the question of parliamentary accountability. Pat Cox was the founding Secretary General of the Progressive Democrats in Ireland and represented that party in Dail Eireann in the early nineties as their finance spokesman. Previously Pat Cox worked as a television current affairs reporter and presenter with RTE.
He graduated from Trinity College in Dublin in 1974, and was an economics lecturer at the Institute of Public Administration in Dublin and the University of Limerick.
Pat Cox has received many awards and distinctions for his European leadership, including the Freedom of the city of Limerick, and Honorary Doctorates.

Francis Jacobs (European Parliament)
Francis Jacobs is the incoming Head of the European Parliament Information Office in Ireland (from 1 September 2006). He has worked with the European Parliament since just before the first direct elections in 1979. For the last 6 years he has been the Head of Unit of the Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and previously had worked with the committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Constitutional Affairs, Rules of Procedure and with the Temporary Committee on German Unification. Before joining the Parliament's staff Francis Jacobs had worked with a US trade association in Washington DC and with Unilever in London.
Francis Jacobs is the co-author (with Richard Corbett and Mike Shackleton) of the "European Parliament" (John Harper Publishing, 6th edition, July 2005). He was also the editor and principal compiler of "Western European Political Parties: a Comprehensive Guide" (Longmans 1989), and has been the author or co-author of numerous articles on the activities, legislative procedures and organisational structure of the European Parliament, as well as of several chapters in books. He has lectured on many occasions on general EU matters and on the European Parliament, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Party Politics".

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG (Chairman, Imperial College London; Hon President UACES)
John Kerr was a UK diplomat (1966/2002), serving as FCO EU UnderSecretary ( 1987/1990), member of COREPER, and Maastricht Treaty negotiator,(1990/1995), Ambassador to the USA (1995/1997), and FCO Permanent UnderSecretary (1997/2002). On leaving government service he became Secretary-General of the EU Constitutional Treaty Convention (2002/3). A crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2004, he serves on Sub-Cttee A (Economic) of the Lords EU Committee. He is Chairman of Imperial College, London; Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell plc and the National Gallery; a Rhodes, Fulbright, and Carnegie Trustee; and current Hon President of UACES.

Beate Kohler-Koch (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Since 1990 Beate Kohler-Koch holds the chair for International Relations and European Affairs at the University of Mannheim. Her recent research activities concentrate on the transformation of governance both at EU and national level as a consequence of deeper European integration. She has initiated and coordinated a large national research programme (1996 - 2005) on “Governance in the EU” and the EU funded Network of Excellence “CONNEX” on "Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-Level Europe" (2004-2008).
Recent book publications cover constitutional politics (2002), a state-of-the-art reflection on European integration (2003), an exploration of “Linking EU and National Governance” (2003), a textbook on integration and European governance (2004), an assessment of interest intermediation in Europe (2005), and a reflection on “Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the EU” (2006).

Brigid Laffan (University College Dublin)
Brigid Laffan PhD, took office as the Principal of the College of Human Sciences, University College Dublin in September 2004. In 1991, Professor Laffan was appointed as Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics in the Department of Politics, UCD. She was the founding Director of the Dublin European Institute UCD in 1999. In March 2004, she was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is a member of the Research Council of the European University (EUI) Florence, the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) and the Irish Government’s High Level Asia Strategy Group. Professor Laffan is author of Integration and Co-operation in Europe, 1992, The Finances of the Union, 1997 and co-author of Europe’s Experimental Union 2000. She has published numerous articles in the Journal of Common Market Studies and the European Journal of Public Policy. Professor Laffan co-ordinated a six country cross national research project Organising for Enlargement (2001-2004), financed by the EU Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme and is part of an integrated research project on New Governance in Europe.

Linda Low (Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs, Singapore and Department of Planning and Economy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Dr Linda Low, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs, Singapore, is concurrently, Head, Strategic Planning, Department of Planning and Economy, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her research and publications are in human resources development aspects of economic development, public policy in Singapore with comparative analyses in ASEAN, East Asia and the Middle East.

Elizabeth Meehan (Queen's University Belfast and University College Dublin)
Elizabeth Meehan is Professor Emerita at Queen’s University Belfast and Adjunct Professor, Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. She was a Professor of Politics (1991-), Jean Monnet Professor (Social Policy) and directed the Institute of Governance. Research includes: women and politics; European citizenship; UK constitutional change; and the EU context of British-Irish relations. Memberships include: life-Vice-President, UK Political Studies Association, Royal Society of Arts, Academy of the Social Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy. She serves on the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Higher Education Authority, NI’s ‘think tank’, Democratic Dialogue, and advisory boards of the Public Record Office, NI, and on Naturalisation and Integration (Home Office).

Nicola Phillips (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Nicola Phillips is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Manchester, UK. She is Managing Editor of the journal New Political Economy and co-editor of the International Political Economy Yearbook series. Her research focuses on the political economy of development, with a particular interest in the political economy of the Americas, and she has published widely in these areas. Her most recent books are The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America (Routledge, 2004) and, as editor, Globalizing International Political Economy (Palgrave, 2005).

Berthold Rittberger (Kaiserslauten University of Technology, Germany)
Berthold Rittberger is a Junior Professor in Political Science at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology. He held previous positions at Nuffield College as Prize Research Fellow and at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). Rittberger studied at the University of Konstanz and the LSE and obtained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2003. Rittberger’s dissertation “Building Europe’s Parliament. Democratic Representation beyond the Nation-State” has been the co-winner of the European Union Studies Association prize for best dissertation 2003-2004 and was subsequently published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Together with Johannes Lindner, he won the prize for best article in the Journal of Common Market Studies 2003. His main areas of research are European integration theory and history, constitutional politics and democratic theory."

Ben Rosamond (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
Ben Rosamond is Reader in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and co-editor of the journal Comparative European Politics. He has held visiting positions at Aarhus University, the Australian National University, Columbia University, Copenhagen Business School, New York University and the University of Oxford. His books include Theories of European Integration (Macmillan, 2000) and Globalization and the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). He has published numerous articles on integration theory and European political economy. His main current research focus is the social construction of the European economy.

Helen Wallace (European University Institute, Italy)
Helen Wallace holds degrees from Oxford (1963-7), Bruges (1967-8), and Manchester (1969-73). Her career has included working at UMIST, the Civil Service College, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (now Chatham House), and the College of Europe. From 1992-2001 she was Co-Director at the Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex and is now a Professorial Fellow there. She was the Director of the ESRC “One Europe or Several?” Programme from 1998-2001. Helen is currently the Director of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She holds several honours, including Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite (French award), Elected Fellow of the British Academy and Chaire ad honorem Conseil universitaire européen pour l’Action Jean Monnet.
Recent publications include An Agenda for a Growing Europe (OUP, 2004) in which she was a co-author, Policy-Making in the European Union, 5^th ed, with William Wallace, OUP, 2005; and The Council of Ministers of the European Union, co-author with Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, 2^nd edition, Palgrave, 2006.

William Wallace (House of Lords, United Kingdom)
William Wallace (Lord Wallace of Saltaire) is emeritus professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, spokesman on foreign affairs in the British House of Lords for the Liberal Democrats, and deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat group in the Lords. He was a member of the House of Lords European Union Committee from 1996-2001, and chair of its sub-committee on Justice and Home Affairs from 1997-2000.
He took his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1968. He was director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) from 1978-1990. From 1990-95 he was Walter F. Hallstein Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; and from 1993-1996 he was concurrently professor of international relations at the Central European University in Budapest. He has written extensively on European international politics and transatlantic relations.