Luk Van Langenhove
Visiting professor, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department
Luk Van Langenhove (BE) is Director of the Comparative Regional Integration Studies Programme of the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges. He was Deputy Secretary-General of the Belgian Federal Services for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Belgian Federal Minister of Science Policy and a researcher and lecturer at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Since 2006 he is Vice-President of the International Social Sciences Council.
Professor Van Langenhove is a graduate of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the same university. He has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Brussels (ULB), Gembloux and Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
He has published widely on regional integration, social sciences theory, positioning theory and psychology in Global Governance, Journal of European Integration, European Integration, Journal of the Theory of Social Behaviour, Leisure Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology and Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology. He is the author of Innovating the Social Sciences (2007), De Benelux: Tijd voor een Wedergeboorte? (with Wouters et al., 2006), Positioning Theory (with Harré, 1998). He is also the editor of The EU as a Global Player: The Politics of Interregionalism (with Söderbaum, 2006), Global Politics of Regionalism: Theory and Practice (with Farrell and Hettne, 2005), Integrating Africa: Perspectives on Regional Integration and Development (with Van Ginkel and Court, 2003), Science, Technology and Social Change (with Aerts, Smets and Gurwith, 1999) and Rethinking Methods in Psychology (with Harré and Smith, 1995).