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Michael Geary on European Integration
The necessity of a European Post-Enlargement Policy is the issue, Michael Geary deals with in different research projects. The scholar will be one of several Visiting Scholars researching at the Institute for European Global Studies in this year.
The research project "Integration or Disintegration" by Michael Geary aims to explain why the European Union needs a Post-enlargement Policy to deal with the multiple rounds of accession since the early 1970s. At the Institute for European and Global Studies, he works on a number of interrelated projects like two book manuscripts. The first book focuses on the relationship between the process of EU integration and the impact that successive rounds of enlargement have had on that process. The second book deals with Britain’s troubled relationship with the integration process over the past 40 years.
Michael J. Geary is Assistant Professor of Modern Europe and the European Union at Maastricht University, Netherlands. He received his doctoral degree from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Amongst other fellowships, he was awarded the Global Europe Fellowship at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, a Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at the Catholic University of American (DC) and a European Parliament-Bronisław Geremek Research Fellowship at the College of Europe in Warsaw. He is the author of two books as well as articles on EU integration, enlargement and EU-US relations.
Every year, the Institute for European Global Studies invites selected scholars to join as Visiting Fellows and to work on specific projects related to the overall research approach of the institute. Visiting Fellows provide impulses to their field of expertise and share their ideas about research in and on a Global Europe with colleagues.
In the upcoming weeks and months, we publish a news series introducing all new Visiting Fellows. Shortly before their stay at the Institute of European Global Studies, a short interview will be available on this website. Learn more about the new Visiting Fellows when they present their research project during a Working Lunch.