Desmond Dinan

Professor of Public Policy and Ad personam Jean Monnet Professor

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Desmond Dinan is Professor of Public Policy and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy at George Mason University. He has been an adviser to the European Commission in Brussels and a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations, The Hague. He was a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges campus (1998-2000) and the College of Europe, Natolin campus (2005-2008). His research interests include the historiography of European integration; the history of the European Union (EU); institutions and governance of the EU; enlargement of the EU; regional integration in the context of globalization; and prospects for global governance. He has written several books on the EU and, since 1999, has written the article on institutions and governance for the Journal of Common Market Studies’ highly regarded annual review of developments in the EU. He has received the George Mason University Student Government “Professor of the Year’’ Award for Excellence in Instruction and the School of Public Policy’s annual teaching award. Professor Dinan is a native of Ireland and a permanent resident of the United States.

Areas of Research

European Union Governance and Institutions
Global Governance

Education
Ph.D., University College, Cork, Ireland

M.A., Georgetown University

B.A., University of Limerick

Professional Experience
1987 – 1994
Assistant Professor, George Mason University

1989 – 1997
Director, Center for European Community Studies, George Mason University

1993-1994 academic year, Adviser, Directorate General for Education, Communication, and Culture, European Commission, Brussels Research Fellow, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium

1997-2000 academic years
Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations, Clingendael, The Hague, The Netherlands

Present
Professor Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy
Director, International Commerce and Policy Program, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

Books
Dinan, D., ed. Origin and Evolution of the European Union. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Dinan, D. Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration. 3rd ed. Boulder, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Macmillan/ Palgrave, 2005.

Book Sections
Dinan, D. "The European Integration Process". In The New European Politics, edited by A. Menon and C. Hay. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Dinan, D. "Building Europe: The European Community and the Bonn-Paris-Washington Relationship, 1958-1963". In The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe, edited by H. Haftendorn, G. Soutou, S. Szabo, and S. Wells. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Dinan, D. “The European Community and the Bonn-Paris-Washington Relationship, 1958-1963.” In Helga Haftendorn, Georges-Henri Soutou, Stephen F. Szabo and Samuel F. Wells, Jr. (eds.), The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Journal Articles and Reviews
Dinan, D. “Fifty Years of European Integration.” Fordham International Law Journal 31, no. 5 (2008): 1118-1142.

Dinan, D. “Ending the Constitutional Impasse.” Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review 2007/2008, Vol. 46, (2008): 71-90.

Dinan, D. "Coping Without the Constitutional Treaty." Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review 2006/2007 45 (2007): 67-87.

Dinan, D. "In the Shadow of the Constitutional Treaty." Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review 44 (2006): 63-80.

Dinan, D. “A New Constitution and a New Commission.” Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review 43, no. September (2005): 37-54.