Biography

Author of Decision-Making in the European Community: the Council Presidency and European Integration; The European Parliament: Performance and Prospects; The Role of Interest Groups in the European Community; Trade Unions as a Pressure Group in the European Community. Co-author: EU Security Recasting the European Order: Security Architectures and Economic Cooperation, The Politics of the New Europe: East, Centre, West. Editor and co-editor: Studies on Policies and Policy Processes of the European Union; Global Security Governance: Competing Perceptions of Security in the Twenty-First Century, London, Routledge; Committee Governance in the European Union, Manchester, Manchester University Press; Decentralisation and Transition in the Visegrad: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia; The Future of European Security; The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO, 40 Years After ;Public Service Unions and the European Community. Journal articles and essays on European security policy, European integration, EU decision-making, German Politics, European interest groups.

Teaching Responsibilities 2009/10

GV545-FY Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutions
GV910-7-FY European Integration
GV973-7-FY Theory and Contemporary Issues of European Integration
 

Sharing the Burden of Collective Security in the European Union.  Han Dorussen, Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperling, article published in International Organization, Fall 2009; 61;4 Download Article .PDF

Recent Publications

EU Security governance Emil Kirchner and James Sperling

EU security governance assesses the effectiveness of the EU as a security actor.  The book has two distinct features. Firstly, it is an original and systematic study of the different economic, political and military instruments employed by the EU in the performance of four different security functions.  The book demonstrates that the EU has emerged as an important security actor, not only in the non-traditional areas of security but increasingly as an entity with force projection capabilities.  Secondly, the book represents an important step towards redressing conceptual gaps in the study of security governance, particularly as it pertains to the European Union. 

Published by Manchester University Press

Global Threat Perception: Elite Survey Results from Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States edited by Emil Kirchner and James Sperling

The research undertaken on Global Threat Perception is part of a wider
research project, the main aim of which is to establish the extent of
convergence or divergence in threat perception, institutional response
and interaction patterns among Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Mexico, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the
EU. The results of the research presented in the working papers are
based on a three-pronged survey of the perception of Members of
Parliament (MPs) or Members of the European Parliament (MEPs),
government officials, and security experts in ten countries plus the EU.

Published on line by 'Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of The EU http://www.garnet-eu.org/

Global Security Governance: Competing Perceptions of Security in the Twenty-First Century edited by Emil Kirchner and James Sperling

Global Security Governance demarcates the barriers and pathways to major power security cooperation and provides an empirical analysis of threat perception and instrumental preferences to perceived threats in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the EU.  By combining a coherent theoretical framework with strong comparative case studies Global Security Governance contributes to the ongoing reconceptualisation of security and definition of threat and provides a basis for reaching tentative conclusions about the prospects for global and regional security governance in the early twenty-first century.

These features make it an ideal reading for all students of Security Studies.

Routledge

Europe in Change: Committee Governance in the European Union edited by Thomas Christiansen and Emil Kirchner

Committees are a pervasive presence in the EU policy process yet little is known about the way in which they operate. This volume brings together an international group of experts from a number of disciplinary backgrounds to provide a comprehensive account of the role played by committees in the European Union. The book looks at committees in the context of inter-institutional relations - based on the recognition that the relationships between Commission, Council, Parliament and national authorities are crucial to the understanding of European policy-making. A number of case studies (monetary, policy, trade, environment, spatial planning and foreign policy) examine the role of committees in specific areas. These are framed by broader perspectives which provide theoretical, statistical and normative analyses of the phenomenon of committee governance.