Postgraduate Researchers
Simon Smith
Email: S.Smith3@lboro.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1509 223917 |
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Biography
I joined the department in October 2008. My current doctoral research is a Historical Institutionalist account of EU-NATO cooperation through the mechanism of Berlin Plus. This research, under the supervision of Professor Mark Webber, takes a path dependent theoretical approach to the design of Berlin Plus and aims to investigate why Berlin Plus persists when it is widely regarded as problematic. Furthermore, it aims to explore any potential forms of EU-NATO de-institutionalised cooperation that exists outside of the Berlin Plus mechanism. This project will be tested through case studies such as the EU Military Operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR-Althea) and in Kosovo where both the EU and NATO have conducted missions.
I completed my undergraduate education in History and Political Science at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Before joining the Dept. of Politics, History and International Relations, I received my MSc with distinction in International Conflict and Cooperation from the University of Stirling under the supervision of Professor Graham Timmins. In addition to my research, I teach a number of modules in the department and I am currently the administrator for the Centre for the Study of International Governance (CSIG).
Publications
Articles
'EU-NATO Cooperation: a case of institutional fatigue?’, European Security (June 2011)
Book Chapter
with E. Kavalski, (February 2010) ‘NATO’s Partnership with Central Asia: Cooperation à la carte’ in The New Central Asia: The Regional Impact of International Actors (World Scientific).
Book Reviews
Atilla Marján, Europe's Destiny: The Old Lady and the Bull (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2011.
The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change in European Crisis Management,by E. Gross (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) in the Journal of Common Market Studies, December 2009.
NATO: in search of a vision. Edited by Gülnur Aybet and Rebecca R. Moore. (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010) in International Affairs, July 2010.
Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union, by Sharon Pardo and Joel Peters. (Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) in European Foreign Affairs Review, 2010.
Regional Cooperation and International Organizations: the Nordic model in transnational alignment. Edited by Norbert Götz and Heidi Haggrén. (New York: Routledge, 2009) in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2010.
Conference Papers
‘The Two Faces of EU-NATO Cooperation: The Case of Counter-Piracy’
EUSA Conference 2011: Boston (co-Written with Dr. Carmen Gebhard)
'EU-NATO Cooperation: A case of institutional fatigue?'
UACES Annual Conference at the University of Bath on 29-30 April 2010.
‘EU-NATO Cooperation through Berlin Plus: A historical institutionalist account’
UACES Exchanging Ideas on Europe: Europe at a Crossroads
Bruges, 6-8 September 2010
Teaching
2009/2010: British Politics
2009/2010: Tutor for ‘Political Analysis’, core 2nd year module, at Loughborough University
2009/2010: British Government
2010/2011: British Politics
2010/2011: Political Analysis
2010/2011: Contemporary World Arena
2010/2011: British Government
2010/2011: Security Studies
2010/2011: International Politics: Issues and Policies
Awards
- University of Stirling departmental scholarship 2007
Memberships
- University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
- British International Studies Association (BISA)