David Phinnemore

Visiting professor, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department

David Phinnemore (UK) is Senior Lecturer in European Integration and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Science at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

He holds a BA in European Studies (1990) and was awarded his PhD in European Studies by the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1998. His teaching interests are focused on the European Union – notably its institutions, decision-making procedures and external relations – and the processes of EU and NATO enlargement.

Professor Phinnemore's research interests cover EU treaty reform, EU enlargement, EU external relations, particularly association, and Romania's position within the processes of Euro-Atlantic integration. These have resulted in a range of publications, notably Reflections on European Integration: 50 Years of the Treaty of Rome (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009) (edited with Alex Warleigh-Lack); Romania and the European Union: From marginalization to membership (London: Routledge, 2008, with Dimitris Papadimitriou); The EU and Romania: Accession and Beyond (editor, London: Federal Trust, 2006); Understanding the European Constitution: An Introduction to the EU Constitutional Treaty (London: Routledge, 2005, with Clive H. Church); and The Penguin Guide to the European Treaties (London: Penguin, 2002, with Clive H. Church). He has also contributed chapters to a range of edited volumes and published articles in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Foreign Affairs Review, Revue d’Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and Perspectives on European Politics and Society.