| Professor Richard G. Whitman joined the Department
as Professor of Politics in April 2006.
Professor Whitman was formerly Head of the European Programme
and Senior Fellow, Europe at Chatham
House (formerly the Royal Institute of International Affairs).
He remains an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. Previously,
he was Professor of European Studies at the University of
Westminster where he also served as Director of the Centre
for the Study of Democracy between 2001-2003.
His University of Bath Professorial Inaugural lecture was
entitled Muscles from Brussels: A 21st Century Superpower
and is available to podcast.
Professor Whitman currently works with the Brussels-based
European Policy Centre (EPC)
as Chair of the EU Neighbourhood Forum and with the UK-based
Federal Trust
for Education and Research on a James Madison Trust funded
project on the future for the European Union's external relations
with Dr
Ana Juncos.This project most recently resulted in the
report A
more coherent and effective European Foreign Policy.
He is a contributor to leading journals, and has presented
many research papers and keynote addresses. Recent publications
include an EPC policy briefing paper on Ukraine
and the EU and an article in the European Foreign Affairs
Review on the
CFSP/ESDP and the Lisbon Treaty.
Professor Whitman works closely with other staff in the Department
of European Studies and Modern Languages that share his research
interests in Europe's global role including the post-doctoral
fellow Dr
Emma Stewart.
Professor Whitman is the author of From
Civilian Power to Superpower? The International Identity of
the European Union (Macmillan, 1998), editor (with Ian
Manners) of The
Foreign Policies of European Union Member States (Manchester
University Press, 2000), editor (with Alice Landau) of Rethinking
the European Union: Institutions, Interests and Identities
(Macmillan, 1997) and editor (with Victoria Curzon Price and
Alice Landau) of Enlargement
of the European Union: Issues and Strategies (Routledge
1999).
His current research interests include the external relations
and foreign and security and defence policies of the EU, and
the governance and future priorities of the EU. Professor
Whitman recently gave evidence to the House
of Common's Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry on the foreign
policy aspects of the EU's Lisbon Treaty.
Professor Whitman is a regular media commentator, working
with print and broadcast media at home and overseas. He has
been interviewed widely most recently on Europe and the General
Election campaign, EU Constitutional Treaty, the elections
to the European Parliament and the appointment of the President
of the European Commission. Recent coverage includes the BBC,
CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune
and the Wall Street Journal.
He was elected an Academician of the Academy
of Social Sciences in October 2007.
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