Professor of Public Policy and Ad personam Jean Monnet Professor
Contact Information
Phone: 703-993-4973
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 639
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1
Personal Websites
Biography
Desmond Dinan is a professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy at George Mason University. He has been an adviser to the European Commission in Brussels and a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations, The Hague. He was a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges campus (1998-2000) and the College of Europe, Natolin campus (2005-08).
His research interests include the historiography of European integration; the history of the European Union (EU); institutions and governance of the EU; enlargement of the EU; regional integration in the context of globalization; and prospects for global governance.
Dinan has written several books on the EU and, since 1999, has written the article on institutions and governance for the Journal of Common Market Studies' highly regarded annual review of developments in the EU.
He has received the Mason Student Government Professor of the Year Award for Excellence in Instruction and the Schar School annual teaching award.
Dinan is a native of Ireland and a permanent resident of the United States.
Curriculum Vitae
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Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201
Tel: (703)993-4973
E-mail: ddinan@gmu.edu
EDUCATION
B.A. in European Studies, National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, Ireland (1978)
M.A. in International Politics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (1981) Ph.D. in Modern European History, University College, Cork, Ireland (1985)
CURRENT POSITIONS
Professor and Ad personam Jean Monnet Chair, George Mason University Director, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, January-June 2011
Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, 1997-2000
Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Natolin, Poland, 2005-2008
Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations, Clingendael, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1998-2000
Adviser, Directorate General for Education, Communication, and Culture, European Commission, Brussels, 1993-1994
Research Fellow, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, 1993-1994
Associate Professor, George Mason University, 1994-2004
Assistant Professor, George Mason University, 1987-1994
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Books
Europe Recast: A History of European Union, 2nd edition (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers and Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Origin and Evolution of the European Union (edited), 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 4rd edition (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Recent Articles
“The Unrelenting Rise of the European Parliament,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review, Volume 52, Annual Review, S.1, September 2014, pp. 109-124.
“The Post-Lisbon European Council Presidency: An Interim Assessment,” West European Politics, 36/6, 2013, pp. 1256-1273.
“From Treaty Revision to Treaty Revision: The Legacy of Maastricht, Journal of European Integration History, 19/1, 2013, pp. 123-140.
“Governance and Institutions: Stresses Above and Below the Waterline,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review, Volume 51, Annual Review, S.1, September 2013, pp. 89-102
“The Arc of Institutional Reform in Post-Maastricht Treaty Change,” Journal of European Integration, 34/7, November 2012, pp. 843-858
“Impact of the Escalating Crisis,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review, Volume 50, Annual Review, S.1, September 2012, pp. 85-90
“Implementing the Lisbon Treaty in the Shadow of the Euro Crisis,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 49, Annual Review, S.1, September 2011, pp. 103-121
“A New Treaty, A Newly Elected Parliament, and a New Commission,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 48, Annual Review, S.1, September 2010, pp. 95-118
Recent Book Chapters
“The Political System of the European Union,” in José M. Magone (ed.), Routledge Handbook of European Politics, Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2015, pp. 202-218.
“The EU as an Efficient Polity,” in Hubert Zimmermann and Andreas Dür (eds.), Key Controversies in European Integration, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
“Famous Non-Performers: Franco Malfatti, Gaston Thorn, and Jacques Santer,” in Erik Jones, Anand Menon, and Stephen Weatherill (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 233-246
“The Single European Act: Revitalizing European Integration,” in Finn Laursen (ed.), Designing the European Union: From Paris to Lisbon, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
“How Did We Get Here?” in Elizabeth Bomberg, John Peterson, and Richard Corbett (eds.), The European Union: How Does It Work?, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 23-46
“Introduction: Sovereignty, Supranationalism, and Supermajority Voting in the European Union,” in Marek A. Cichocki and Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka (eds.), The Distribution of Power and Voting Procedures in the European Union, Farnham: Ashgate, 2010
Recent Policy Pieces
“The European Union: A Worthy Peace prize Laureate?” guest post on NewPopulationBomb, October 12, 2012
The Post-Lisbon European Council Presidency: A Valuable Innovation, policy brief published under the auspices of the Decision-Making in the European Union Before and After Lisbon (DEUBAL) project (2012)
“The Limits of EU History,” Eyes on Europe, 10, May-November 2009, pp. 39-42
COURSES TAUGHT
GOVT 334 Government and Politics of Europe
ITRN 500 Global Political Economy
GOVT 741 The EU and Global Security
ITRN 761 European Political and Economic Union
ITRN 702: The European Union: Looking beyond the Eurozone Crisis
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Approaching the European Union: Challenges and Changes in the Western Balkans,” Belgrade Open School, Belgrade, Serbia, June 21, 2011
Participant, Counterterrorism and European Institutions Seminar, Brookings Institution, September 20, 2011
“Banks, Governments, and the Debt Crisis: the European Experience,” Foreign Policy Institute’s Great Decisions program, Arlington, VA, October 26, 2011
“The Nature of Supranational Governance,” presentation at the World Affairs Council Professional Development Workshop for Educators, held in conjunction with the Delegation of the European Union in Washington, D.C., October 29, 2011
“The Post-Lisbon European Council Presidency,” paper presented at the “Decision- Making in the European Union Before and After Lisbon” workshop, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, November 3-4, 2011
“Globalization and Internationalization of Third-Level Education: A European Perspective,” seminar in SPP with Xavier Prats-Monné, Deputy Director General from Directorate-General Education and Culture, European Commission, November 8, 2011
“Impact of the Euro Crisis on EU Governance and Institutions,” lecture to students in the European Studies program, Maastricht University, April 25, 2012
“A Greek Tragedy: American Attitudes toward the European Union,” Maastricht Monnet Lecture, Maastricht University, Centre for European Governance in cooperation with the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht, April 24, 2012
“Maastricht and Beyond: Future Perspectives,” conference presentation, The Maastricht Treaty: Taking Stock After 20 Years, Maastricht University in cooperation with the Municipality of Maastricht and the Province of Limburg, February 7-8, 2012 (see also “Leaders Reflect on Euro’s Origins,” in Europolitics, February 9, 2012)
“From Treaty Revision to Treaty Revision: Maastricht in Perspective,” paper presented at the workshop entitled The Treaty of Maastricht: Negotiations and Consequences in a Historical Perspective, Maastricht University, June 22-23, 2012
Participant, “The Future of the Western Liberal Order,” Opening Workshop of the Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, D.C., September 9, 2012
“How the EU actually works,” lecture at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, George Mason University, April 23, 2013
“Confusion, Complementarity and Competition: The European Council and the Council of the European Union,” paper presented at the 13th biennial conference of the European Union Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, May 10, 2013
“Higher Education in Ireland and the United States: A Comparison,” seminar for a delegation from Cork Country Council, SPP, May 13, 2013
“Update on the Eurozone Crisis,” Foreign Policy Institute’s Great Decisions program, Arlington, May 14, 2013
Participant on numerous panels at the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) biennial conference, Baltimore, May 9-11, 2013
Participant on numerous panels at the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) biennial conference, Boston, March 5-7, 2015
AWARDS
Ad personam Jean Monnet Chair, awarded by the European Commission, Brussels (2009)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Served on several internal committees at George Mason University
Member, editorial board, Studien zur Geschichte der Europäischen Integration/Etude sur l’Histoire de l’Intégration Européenne, Franz Steiner Verlag (since 2010)
Executive committee member, American Center for European Studies (an EU Center of Excellence), a consortium of American University, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Georgetown University, managed by SAIS)
Peer reviewer for manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Common Market Studies; Journal of Democracy and Security; Journal of European Public Policy; Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance; Palgrave Macmillan; Oxford University Press; Cambridge University Press, and European Science Foundation
International evaluator for the 2011-12 grant competition for the Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands’ Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council)
Chair, review committee for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University: site visit, January 2015; report submitted March 2015
Areas of Research
- European Union Governance and Institutions
- Global Governance