Post:	Professor of Contemporary European Studies
Location:	Friston Building FR-232
Email:	J.Monar@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	7797 or 8578
UK:	(01273) 877797 or (01273) 678578
International:	+44 1273 877797 or +44 1273 678578

Biography

Licencié-ès-lettres (Sorbonne) Certificat d'Etudes Politiques (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris) MA PhD (Munich) Dr. rer. pol. (European University Institute, Florence)

Professor of Contemporary European Studies
Co-Director of Sussex European Institute
Associate Director - One Europe or Several? Programme

Outside Activities

• Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union for an inquiry into European Union measures regarding the combat against illegal immigration.
• Chairman of the Board of the European Association of Researchers in Federalism (Tübingen)
• External Professor at the Dipartimento di Ricerche Europee (German constitutional law), University of Genoa.
• Joint Editor of the European Foreign Affairs Review (London).
• Member of the Academic Council of and Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges/Natolin).
• Member of the Conseil de Perfectionnement du D.E.S.S. "Droit et pratique des affaires internationales", Institut du Droit de la Paix et du Développement", University of Nice.
• Member of the Board of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of Loughborough.
• Member of the Council of the Federal Trust for Education and Research (London).
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Presidency EULEC Conference on "Integrated security in Europe" (Brussels).
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Institut für Europäische Politik (Berlin).
• Member of the Working Group on the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union ("Krenzler Group"), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Florence).
• Training programme for Macedonian officials on EU external relations and justice and home affairs, Stability Pact/German Foreign Office (Skopje, June).
• Training seminar for officials from various Balkan countries on EU external relations and EU justice and home affairs at the American University in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad, July).

Research

Institutional development of the EU, EU justice and home affairs, Common Foreign and Security Policy, and external economic relations and EU citizenship issues.

Other areas of Interest

• Institutional and constitutional development of the European Union
• External relations of the European Union
• European Union justice and home affairs
• European citizenship
• Comparative Western European politics

Publications

• "El camino de la Unión Europea hacia un sistema común de asilo: Progresos, déficits y perspectivas futuras", in G. Arias Fernández/B. Ramirez Sánchez (eds.): Asilo, inmigración y cruce de fronteras, Madrid (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija).
• "The European Union after the Treaty of Amsterdam", London 2001 (Continuum) (ed. with W. Wessels).
• "Assessing the Treaty of Amsterdam: beyond conventional wisdom", in: J. Monar/W. Wessels (eds.): The European Union after the Treaty of Amsterdam, London (Continuum).
• "Justice and home affairs after Amsterdam: the treaty reforms and the challenge of their implementation", in: J. Monar/W. Wessels (eds.): The European Union after the Treaty of Amsterdam, London (Continuum).
• "Continuing and building on Amsterdam: the reforms of the treaty of Nice", in: J. Monar/W. Wessels (eds.): The European Union after the Treaty of Amsterdam, London (Continuum).
• "Justice and home affairs", in: H. Wallace/A. Mayhew (eds.): Poland: A Partnership Profile, "One Europe or Several?" Policy Paper No. 04/01, Brighton (University of Sussex).
• "Die Kommission nach dem Vertrag von Nizza: Ein gestärkter Präsident und ein geschwächtes Organ?", in: Integration, 2/01.
• "Justice and homre affairs", in: G. Edwards/G. Wiessala (eds.): The European Union. Annual Review of the EU 2000/2001, Journal of Common Market Studies, Oxford (Blackwell).
• "Freedom, security and justice - Getting the balance right", in: Challenge Europe, No. 5 (printed and on-line journal version, http://www.theepc.be), Brussels (European Policy Centre).
• "Giustizia e affari interni in un'Unione allargata", in: Europa/Europe, Vol. X.
• "The Dynamics of Justice and Home Affairs: Laboratories, Driving Factors and Costs", in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4.
• "EU Justice and Home Affairs and the Eastward Enlargement: The Challenge of Diversity and EU Instruments and Strategies", Discussion Paper No. C 91, Bonn (Zentrum für Eurpäische Integrationsforschung).
• "Schengen, Closer Cooperation and the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion", in: C. Marinho (ed.): Asyulm, Immigration and Schengen Post-Amsterdam, Maastricht (European Institute of Public Administration).
• "Die Innen- und Justizpolitik der Europäischen Union in einem zusammenwachsenden Europa", in: Grenzschutzdirektion (ed.): Intensivierung der praktischen Zusammenarbeit bei der Verhinderung der unerlaubten Einreise und Bekämpfung der Schleusungskriminalität, Koblenz (Grenzschutzdirektion).
• "The Justice and Home Affairs Dimension of EU Enlargement", in: The International Spectator, Vol. XXXVI, July-September.
• "European Union security responses", in: Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, November 23.
• "Außenwirtschaftbeziehungen", in: W. Weidenfeld/W. Wessels (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2000/01, Bonn (Europa-Union Verlag).
• "Institutionalising Freedom, Security and Justice", in: John Peterson/Michael Schackleton (eds.): The institutions of the European Union, Oxford (Oxford University Press).

Papers

• "Institutionelle Reformen: Die Kommission", Institut für Europäische Politik (Berlin): Die Ergebnisse von Nizza - Bewertungen aus Sicht von Wissenschaft und Politik" (January).
• "New fields for qualified majority voting", Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/TEPSA (Florence): "The Nice Treaty. Anatomy, analysis and assessment" (January).
• "Der Raum der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und des Rechts: Entwicklungstendenzen und Herausforderungen nach Amsterdam und Tampere", Institut für Politikwissenschaft (Tübingen): "Der Raum der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und des Rechts" (February).
• "Justice and Home Affairs", Seminar on Poland and the EU organised by the Prime Minister's Policy Unit, London (February).
• "Abstimmungen mit qualifizierter Mehrheit - Sperriegel oder Motor der Integration?", Institut für Völkerrecht, Europarecht und Internationale Beziehungen, University of Innsbruck: "Die EU nach Nizza" (March).
• "The Dynamics of EU justice and home affairs", ESRC "One Europe or Several Programme/Journal of Common Market Studies (London): "The Changing Politics of the European Union" (March).
• "Finalität der Europäischen Union und Verfassungsentwicklung", Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften (Speyer): "Verwaltung in der Europäischen Union" (March).
• "The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the Enlargement: Challenges for the Belgian Presidency", Groupe d'Ètudes Politiques Européennes/TEPSA (Brussels): The Belgian Presidency of the European Union (April).
• "Enlargement-related diversity in EU justice and home affairs", European Commission TAIEX Office (Brussels): "EU justice and home affairs in the context of enlargement" (May).
• "Illegal Immigration and Human Trafficking: Issues and Problems", 6th Chilworth Conference: "Priority Areas for European Strategies against Organised Crime", Southampton (June).
• "The justice and home affairs agenda in the post-enlargement EU", Hungarian Embassy/ESRC "One Europe or Several Programme?" (London): "Looking beyond the date of accession - Hungary's contribution to the future EU" (June).
• "Decision-making in the area of freedom, security and justice", Institute of European Law, University of Birmingham: "Legitimacy and accountability in the European Union after Nice" (July).
• "Establishing a European area of justice", Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels): "New European borders and security cooperation" (July).
• "Current issues of the interaction between the Presidency, the High Representative and the European Commission", Institut für Europäische Politik/TEPSA (Brussels): "New Dynamism for the Common Foreign and Security Policy - the impact of the Nice Treaty and ESDP" (September).
• "The securitisation of crime and illegal immigration", Centre for European Politics and Institutions, University of Leicester: "Evolving Concepts of Security in Europe" (September).
• "Zentrale und dezentrale Governance-Ansätze auf dem Prüfstand", Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (Berlin): "Das Governance-Weißbuch der Europäischen Kommission" (October).
• "Problems of balance in the development of the AFSJ", Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Pembroke College (Cambridge): "Justice and home affairs and internal security within the EU" (November).
• "Fortschritte und Probleme der "cross-pillarisation" in den Außenbeziehungen der EU", Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (Bonn): "Die EU als internationaler Akteur" (November).
• "The area of freedom, security and justice: Institutional and substantial dynamics", European Institute for Law-Enforcement Co-operation/College of Europe (Bruges): "Integrated security in Europe, a democratic perspective" (November).
• "Le nuove sfide della 'governance'", Conference on "Leggitimità e governance nell'Unione europea", University of Genoa (November).
• "The Europeanization of justice and home affairs", British Academy/ESRC (London): "Germany and Europe: A 'Europeanized' Germany?" (November).

Conferences

• "L'Espace Schengen - Que reste-t-il des contrôles aux frontières", Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg: "Semaine européenne" (February).
• "EU justice and home affairs and the challenge of enlargement", Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge (March).
• "Europäische Außenpolitik - Versuch einer Standortbestimmung", Renner-Institut (Vienna): "Eine Stimme für Europa?" (May).
• "Die Inhalte der Europäischen Grundrechtecharta", Gustav-Stresemann Institut (Bonn): XII. Europäische Sommerakademie, "Perspektiven der Europäischen Integration nach Nizza" (July).