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Key Researchers
Emil J. Kirchner is Jean Monnet Professor and Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Essex. He is Advisory Editor and Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of European Integration, holder of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the University Association of Contemporary Studies. He has been a visiting professor at universities in various European countries, the United States and China. His recent book publications are (co-author) The European Union and China, MacMillan, 2018; (co-editor) EU-Japan Security Cooperation, Routledge, 2018; (co-editor) Security Relations between China and the European Union, Cambridge University Press, 2016; and (co-editor) The Palgrave Handbook on EU-Asia Relations, 2013. In the EAST project, professor Kirchner is a contributor and co-editor for the volume on security relations.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/kirch93205/emil-kirchner
Han Dorussen is Professor of Government at the University of Essex and has been a guest professor at the University of Kobe. He is a board member of the Network of European Peace Scientists, associate editor for the Journal of Peace Research, international affiliate of Centro Europeo di Scienza della Pace (CESPIC), and a member of the Michael Nicholson Centre of Conflict and Cooperation. His current research interests include peacekeeping operations and the governance of post-conflict societies, the relationship between trade and conflict, and policy convergence in the European Union. Co-editor (with Emil Kirchner) EU-Japan Security Cooperation, Routledge, 2018; (with Emil Kirchner and Thomas Christiansen) Security Relations between China and the European Union: From Convergence to Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and (with Michael Taylor) of Economic Voting (Routledge, 2002). He has published articles in Public Choice, International Organization, World Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Peacekeeping, International Interactions, European Union Politics, World Development, and Electoral Studies. In the EAST project, Professor Dorussen contributes to the volume on security relations.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/dorus77209/han-dorussen
Alexandra Hennessy is Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of Essex. Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester’s Skalny Center, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clarkson University (NY), and an Associate Professor with tenure at Seton Hall University (NJ). She has authored The Europeanization of Workplace Pensions, Cambridge University Press; Informal governance and the Eurozone crisis, in: The European Union Beyond the Crisis (ed. B. Stefanova), Lexington Books; and has published articles in the journals German Politics and Society, Journal of Common Market Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of European Public Policy and International Interactions. In the EAST project, Dr. Hennessy contributes to the volume on trade relations.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/henne27502/alexandra-hennessy
