Section: Research Student Profiles

Benjamin Leruth

Name
Benjamin Leruth
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Christal Macmillan building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)784 203 7393
E-Mail
Research Interests
European Union,European integration,Nordic States,Comparative European Politics,Consensual democracies
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/benjamin_leruth
Benjamin Leruth

PhD Title

Banking Crises, Consensual Democracy and Nordic Accession to the European Union (working title)

Qualifications

  • BA in Political Science, University of Namur (Belgium)
  • LLM in European Law, University of Kent (UK)

Research interests

I am currently working on the relations between the European Union and the Nordic States. My Master's thesis focused on the specific case of Iceland. My research interests also include:

  • The future of the European Economic Area;
  • Future enlargement of the European Union;
  • The referendum process in the Nordic States;
  • Party systems, public participation and populism in the Nordic States.

Supervisors

Dr. David Howarth

Dr. Iain Hardie

Publications and Conference Papers

"Ja", "Kyllä" and "Nei": a Comparison of the Communication Strategies used in the Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian 1994 Referenda Campaigns on EU Membership, paper to be presented at the eighth HEIRS Conference, Humboldt University Berlin, 30 March 2012

Enlarging the European Union in times of Crisis? The case of Iceland, paper to be presented at the second JCME conference, University of Manchester, 20 January 2012 

Iceland's application for EU membership: a political and socio-economic analysis, paper presented at the conference on "The Political Project of the European Union: Current State and Future Perspectives", Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 9 December 2011 

Other activities

Convenor for the Transatlantic Seminar Series, 2012

 

This page was published on 23 February 2012


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