People
Professor Alasdair Blair, Co-Director of the CEG
Jean Monnet Professor of International Relations
Professor Alasdair Blair has published 12 books on European integration, British foreign policy and International Relations, and in excess of 60 articles and book chapters. His publications are used as key reading materials on University courses in countries throughout the world, among them are Britain and the World since 1945 (Routledge, 2014) The European Union: A Beginner’s Guide (Oneworld, 2012) and The European Union since 1945 (Longman, 2010). He also serves as Review Editor of European Foreign Affairs Review, and as a National Teaching Fellow.
Alasdair is actively involved in supervising research students, having supervised 8 research students to completion. He is presently supervising 7 research students on topics that include among others the Council of Europe and multi-level governance, Libya and the EU, intercultural communication challenges on multicultural teams in Saudi Arabian organisations, the translation norms for Chinese culture-specific expressions in the Chinese Premier’s press conference, and the popular discourse of space exploration and the practice of soft power. Alasdair is also an external examiner on BA and MA programmes at the University of Leicester and University of Nottingham.
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Dr Kenneth Morrison, Co-Director of the CEG
Reader in Modern Southeast European History
A specialist in the field of modern Southeast European history and politics, he has published the first concise modern history of Montenegro and completing ground-breaking research in the Sandžak (the multi-ethnic area that straddles the border of Serbia and Montenegro). He has provided analysis for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, BBC News, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Jane's-IHS Global, Balkan Insight, the Chatham House publication ‘The World Today’, and has written for, or given numerous interviews to, media throughout Europe. In 2011-12 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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Professor Colin Copus
Professor of Local Politics, and Director of the Local Governance Research Unit
Professor Colin Copus has expertise in local governance, local party politics, local political leadership, local policy development, the changing role of the councillor and small party and independent politics. He is the author of two major books: Leading the Localities: Executive Mayors in English Local Governance (Manchester University Press, 2006) and Party Politics and Local Government (Manchester University Press, 2004). He is also widely published in academic journals.
He is a regular key note speaker at academic and policy conferences, nationally and internationally as well as editing Local Government Studies since 2001. He has served as a councillor on a London Borough council, a county and a district council and three parish councils.