Staff Profile: Professor Martin Dangerfield

Name	Professor Martin Dangerfield
Title	Professor of European Integration/Jean Monnet Chair in the European Integration of Central and East Europe
Research Group	Europe Trend and Transformation (ETAT)
School	School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications
Tel.	01902 322730
Email	M.Dangerfield@wlv.ac.uk

Summary

Martin Dangerfield is Professor of European Integration and Jean Monnet Chair in the European Integration of Central and East Europe. He coordinates the Europe: Trend and Transformation Research Group in the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research (CTTR). He also organises the Jean Monnet Symposium and Jean Monnet Forum.

He teaches mainly European Union studies at the University of Wolverhampton. His current research focuses on the Visegrad Group, EU-Russia Relations, the European Neighbourhood Policy/Eastern Partnership, subregional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe and links to the European Union enlargement process. Earlier work focused on the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) and aspects of the Czech transformation process and the external economic relations of post-socialist states.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Journal Articles

‘Visegrad Group Cooperation and Russia’, Journal of Common Market Studies , Vol.50, No.6 (2012)
‘Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine: In or Out of European Regional International Society, Journal of European Integration, (Special Issue: ‘Europe after Enlargement’, edited by M. Webber and I Stivachtis), Vol. 33, No. 2. 2011)
'The Contribution of the Visegrad Group to the European Union's 'Eastern' Policy: Rhetoric or Reality?' Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 61, Number 10, December (2009)
‘The Visegrád Group in the Expanded European Union: From Pre-accession to Post-accession Cooperation’, East European Politics and Society, Vol.22, No.3 (2008)
'The European Union and Post-communist Europe: One Approach or Several?' Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol.23, No.4 (2007)
'Subregional Integration and EU Enlargement: Where Next for CEFTA?', Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 44, No.2 (2006).
'CEFTA: Between the CMEA and the EU', Journal of European Integration, Vol. 26, No.3 (2004).
'Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans: Stabilisation Device or Integration Policy?', Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol.5, No.2. (2004).

Book Chapters

‘Small’ Visegrad States and Russia: The Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia’ in M. David, J.Gower and H. Haukkala eds., National Perspectives on Russia: European foreign Policy in the Making, London: Routledge (forthcoming)
‘Visegrad Group Cooperation and ‘Europeanisation’ of New EU Member States’ in M. Gŏra and K. Zielińska, eds., Democracy, State and Society. European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press. (2011)
‘New EU Member States and the Challenge of the Eastern Neighbourhood: The Role of the Visegrad Group’ in Proceedings of the 9^Th International Conference; Challenges of Europe: Growth and Competitiveness reversing the Trends, Split: Faculty of Economics of University of Split. (2011)
‘The European Union and sub-regional cooperation’ in J-U Wunderlich and D. Bailey, eds. The European Union and Global Governance – A Handbook, London/New York: Routledge (2011)
'Perestrokia and the CMEA: New Direction or Dead End?’, in Markku Kangaspuro, ed., Perestroika: Process and Consequences, Helsinki; SKS Kirjat (2010)
'Searching for ‘Central Europe’: Region-Building Processes after the End of the Cold War and the role of European Integration' in W. Petritsch and C. Solioz, eds., Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in (South East) Europe Baden Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (2010)
'Sozialistische Ökonomische Integration: der Rat für gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe (RGW) in B. Greiner, C. Müller, C. Weber, eds., Ökonomieim Kalten Kreig, Hamburg: Hamburger Edition. (2010)
‘“Euro? What Euro?” The Financial Crisis and ‘Business as Usual’ UK Attitudes to Economic and Monetary Union’, Proceedings of the 8^Th International Conference; Challenges of Europe: Financial Crisis and Climate Change, Split: Faculty of Economics of University of Split (2009)
‘The Impact of European Union Membership on Central European Subregional Cooperation’ in W. Petritsch and C. Solioz, eds., (2008) Regional Cooperation in South East Europe and Beyond. Challenges and Prospects, Baden Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (2008)
‘EU Integration Capacity And Europeanisation Prospects For ‘Excluded’ States’, in Z. Reic, ed., Enterprise in Transition, Split: University of Split (2007)
‘Central European Subregional Cooperation and EU Membership: A Channel for the Assertion of Elite Preferences?’, in L. Gatnar and D. Lane, eds., Popular Opposition and Support for Different Types of EU Integration, Prague: Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, (2007)
'Subregional Cooperation and European Integration: Impact of the 5th EU Enlargement' in Z. Reic, ed., Enterprise in Transition, (Split: University of Split, 2005).

Important Non-REF Publications

‘Bringing eastern neighbours closer to the European Union: a way to achieve speedier and more effective integration’ JEAN MONNET REFLECTION GROUP ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE 2020-2030 LED BY FELIPE GONZALES ,, Call for Input, Theme 8: Europe’s Role in the World. Brussels: European Commission. Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/education/jean-monnet/doc/future/dangerfield_en.pdf (2010)
‘Macro-Regions as a Concept’, Proceedings of the Forum at the Committee of the Regions on ‘Europe’s macro-regions: Integration through territorial co-operation’, Brussels, 13 April 2010. Available at: http://www.cor.europa.eu/pages/EventTemplate.aspx?view=folder&id=177a95fc-ce27-4d76-82ce-457420963ce4&sm=177a95fc-ce27-4d76-82ce-457420963ce4 (2010)
‘Contribution - Macro-regions: a case of multilevel governance?’, Proceedings of the Committee of the Regions 6th Atelier “EU Macro-Regional Strategies and European Governance”Brussels, 26 November 2009. Available at: http://www.cor.europa.eu/pages/EventTemplate.aspx?view=detail&id=06f56151-e636-404b-b525-711414e09ae8 (2009)