International Researchers Network
International Researchers Brief Biographies
Michael Bruter
London School of Economics and Political Science
London, UK
Michael Bruter is lecturer in political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (department of Government). He specialises in the study of elections and of public opinion in Europe and in the emergence of a European identity.
Before joining the LSE, Michael taught at the University of Hull, and he has or currently holds visiting appointment at the Institute of Political Studies of Strasbourg, the Australian National University, etc. Michael got his PhD with distinction from the University of Houston and also holds degrees from the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Hull.
Michael's publications include two books: Citizens of Europe? (2005, Palgrave MacMillan) and Encyclopaedia of European Elections (co-edited with Yves Deloye and forthcoming in 2006, Palgrave MacMillan) as well as articles in many leading political science journals (Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, etc). He has received several grants (Economic and Social Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Reitmayer Foundation, etc).
Michael's current projects, include the writing up of a panel-study on the media, symbols, and European identity in six countries, and new projects on the motivations of young party members (six-country comparative study), voters' motivations in the referenda on the European constitution (five country comparative study), and the extreme right and European identity. He is also involved in the comparative analysis of public opinion data on the Asia-Pacific perceptions project.
email: m.bruter@lse.ac.uk
Kenneth Chan
Associate Professor at the Department of Government and International Studies
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Kenneth Chan received his D.Phil. in Politics from Nuffield College, University of Oxford and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. He has also taught at the University of Warsaw and the University of Gdańsk in Poland. His research interests include Post-Communist Politics, Democratisation, British Politics, European Union Politics, and Hong Kong Politics. He has taken Polish, Czech, Slovene and Hungarian courses. He has published articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Electoral Studies, Oxford International Review, Party Politics, West European Politics, Central and East European Political Science Review, Studia Polityczna (Poland), Druzboslovne Razprave (Slovenia), and the Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences.
email: kklchan@hkbu.edu.hk
Ole Elgström
Professor of Political Science
Lund University, Sweden
Ole Elgström, Professor of Political Science (b.1950, Ph.D. 1982). One major area of research concerns the security policy strategies of small states. In my dissertation, Aktiv utrikespolitik (1982), the active foreign policy of Sweden in the 1960´s and 70´s was described and analyzed. In a more recent book, Images and Straegies of Autonomy" (2000) - part of the research programme on Stable Peace at my Department and the Department of History - I try to high-light how small states balance between their striving for attonomy and the restrictions given by external pressures.
A second major research area is international negotiations. In the monography Foreign Aid Negotiations (1992), an interest in foreign aid was combined with my interest in negotiation theory. More recently, my research has focused on the EU as a negotiation arena: what is characteristic of negotiations, mediation and coalition-building in the Union? Fragments from theories on international negotiations are used to understand the unique features of EU negotiations. Articles on negotiations have been published in Negotiation Journal , International Negotiation, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of European Public Policy and European Forewign Affairs Review. In an on-going project, Comparing Council Presidencies, the possibilities and constraints that an EU Council Presidency faces when trying to fulfill the roles of leader and mediator are analyzed.
I am a board member of the Nordic International Studies Association and the ECPR Standing group on European Politics.
email: ole.elgstrom@svet.lu.se
Brad Jones
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
University of Arizona, USA
I'm an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Arizona. I've been at the UA since August 1994, with the exception of one year (AY 2000-2001) while I was in the very excellent political science department at SUNY-Stony Brook.
email: bsjones@email.arizona.edu