Section: Staff Profiles
John Peterson
- Name
- Professor John Peterson
- Title
- Head of Politics & International Relations
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 3.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 651 3023
- John.Peterson@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/peterson_john
Office Hours:
Monday 09:00-11:00
Qualifications
- BSc (Ithaca)
- MA (California, Santa Barbara)
- PhD (London School of Economics)
Recent Posts
John Peterson joined Politics in January 2005. He previously held posts teaching international, European and American politics at the Universities of Glasgow, York, Essex, Oxford, and the University of California (Santa Barbara). He has also held visiting posts at the Universities of Vienna, Paris, California (Berkeley),University College Dublin, the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), and the College of Europe (Bruges).
Current Research and Teaching
John presently teaches on American foreign policy and European Union (EU) politics to taught postgraduate students and on politics, international relations, and ideology to 1st year students on Edinburgh Politics' 1st year course on 'Introduction to Politics and International Relations'.
John is presently conducting research on the European Commission, the EU and multilateralism, EU trade policy, and US-European relations. He is leading (with Hussein Kassim as Principal Investigator) an international research team working on an ESRC- and EU-funded project on the European Commission. ‘The Commission of the 21st Century’ project has spawned (in autumn 2008) the largest-ever independent attitudinal survey of European Commission officials. John is also Director of Research for MERCURY, a 3-year EU-funded project designed to examine critically the European Union's contribution to multilateralism. More information about MERCURY can be found here.
Research Interests
John has membership in the following Politics Research Groups: International Politics; European Integration; Public Policy.
Recent Publications
John's next book will be entitled: Parochial Global Europe: the Politics of EU Trade Policy (co-authored with Alasdair Young, Oxford University Press, 2010). Recent publications include: The European Union: How Does it Work? (co-edited with Elizabeth Bomberg and Alexander Stubb, Oxford University Press, 2008); The European Union and the New Trade Politics (co-edited with Alasdair Young, Routledge, 2007); The Institutions of the European Union (co-edited with Michael Shackleton, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2006), and Security Strategy and Transatlantic Relations (co-edited with Roland Dannreuther, Routledge, 2006). John is presently working on a revised edition of Europe and America: Partners and Rivals in International Relations (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010, forthcoming). His past works include 'Europe, America, Bush' (co-edited with Mark A. Pollack, Routledge, 2003) and 'Decision-Making in the European Union' (co-authored with Elizabeth Bomberg, Palgrave, 1999).
John’s inaugural lecture, entitled ‘US Democrats – the True Europeans? Public Opinion and Foreign Policy’, is both available as an audio/visual Podcast and as a 2008 Mitchell Working Paper published by the Europa Institute. His October 2009 Transatlantic Seminar – 'Obama and Multilateralism: Hell No More?' – is also available as an audio/visual Podcast.
PhD Supervision
John is available to offer PhD supervision on most topics related to European Union politics and policy (especially external policy), US-European relations, and US foreign policy.
Links to Publications
John is co-editor (with Helen Wallace) of the ‘New European Union’ series for Oxford University Press:
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/category/academic/series/politics/neu.do.
To read John’s MERCURY Working Paper (co-authored with Caroline Bouchard) on ‘Conceptualising Multilateralism’, click here
http://www.mercury-fp7.net/index.php?id=10076
This page was published on 22 November 2009