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Dr. Howarth is on sabbatical from 1 January to 1 August 2012. Please contact Professor John Peterson with any questions about the MSc IEP / EUPL. Please contact Shirley Fraser at the Europa Institute with any questions about the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

Qualifications

• BA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxford)
  
• MPA (Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Paris)
  

Current Posts

Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh; Jean Monnet Chair;

Director of the MSc in International and European Politics and the MSc in European Union Politics and Law.

Leader of the Politics Research Group on European Integration
Member of the Steering Committee of the Europa Institute

Head of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Edinburgh

 

A few of David's many recent op-ed pieces on the euro crisis

The Summit will be a bruising affair (3.12.2011)

Prepare to Batten Down the Hatches (18.12.2011)

 

Recent Publications

Some of David's recent publications include:

Articles:

'France and the International Financial Crisis: The Legacy of State-led Finance', Governance, 2012, accepted, forthcoming.

'At the Vanguard of Globalization: The OECD and Capital Liberalization', Review of International Political Economy, (with Tal Sadeh), 18: 15, 2011, 622-645.

'The Ever Incomplete Single Market:  Differentiation and the Evolving Frontier of Integration', with Tal Sadeh, in Journal of European Public Policy, 2010, 17: 7, pp. 922-935.

'Die Krise but not La Crise? Financial crisis and the transformation of German and French banking systems’, with Iain Hardie, Journal of Common Market Studies, November 2009, 47:5, pp. 1015-1036.

‘Economic Interests and the European Union: A Catalyst for European Integration or a Hindrance?’, with Tal Sadeh, in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10, 1, February 2008, pp. 1-8.

'Running an enlarged euro-zone – reforming the European Central Bank:  Efficiency, legitimacy and national economic interest', in Review of International Political Economy, 14:5, December 2007, pp. 820-41.

‘Making and Breaking the Rules:  French Policy on EU Economic Governance’, Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14, no. 7, October 2007: 1061 - 1078.

‘The Domestic Politics of Britain and the Euro’, in Journal of European Integration, vol. 29, no. 1, March 2007, pp. 47-68.

‘Comparing the euro-outsiders', Journal of European Integration, Volume 27, Number 1 / March 2005, pp. 133-150.

‘The ECB and the Stability Pact’, with Peter Loedel, in Journal of European Public Policy, Spring, 2004, 11, 5, pp. 832-853.

Books:

David has written or co-written two monographs and a textbook: (with Peter Loedel) The European Central Bank: The New European Leviathan? (Palgrave 2005), second edition (first from 2003); The French Road to European Monetary Union (Palgrave 2001) (awarded a five star review in the journal Political Studies); and (with Georgios Varouxakis) Contemporary France: Politics and Society (Edward Arnold 2003).

David has co-edited (with Tal Sadeh) At the Frontier of the Single European Market: The Political Economy of Market Integration in the Early Twenty-first Century, Routledge, 2011.

Chapters in edited volumes:

'Regulating the so-called "Vultures of Capitalism', (with James Buckley) in Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review of the European Union in 2010, Vol. 49, s1, Blackwells: 2011, 123-143.

'Gesture Politics? Explaining the EU's Response to the Financial Crisis', (with James Buckley) in Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review of the European Union in 2009, Vol. 48, s1, Blackwells: 2010, 119-141.

‘Industrial Policy: The Softer Side of Differentiated Integration’ in Dyson, K. and Sepos, A., eds., Which Europe? The Politics of Differentiated Integration, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. TBD.

‘Greening the Internal Market in a Difficult Economic Climate’, in Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review of the European Union in 2008, Blackwells: 2009, 133-150.

‘Bank of France: The challenge of escaping politicization’, in Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen, Central Banks in the Age of the Euro: Europeanization, Convergence, and Power, Oxford: OUP, 2009, pp. 111-129.

‘The European Central Bank: The Bank that rules Europe? in Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen, Central Banks in the Age of the Euro: Europeanization, Convergence, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 73-88.

‘Euro Area Enlargement and European Central Bank Reform’, in eds., L. Lacina, et al., The Economic Performance of the European Union:  Issues, Trends and Policies, Basingstoke, Macmillan Palgrave, 2009, pp. 82-104

‘France in the Euro-Zone:  the management of paradoxical interests’ in Ken Dyson, ed., The Euro at Ten, OUP, 2008, pp. 111-132.

‘From Leader to Frustrated Watchdog:  the European Commission and monetary integration’, in Jack Hayward, ed., Leaderless Europe, OUP, 2008, pp. 28-46.

'Using Europe to Keep the World at Bay: French Policy on EU Economic Governance’, in M. Maclean and J. Szarko, France on the World Stage, 2008, 127-143.

‘Enlarging the European Central Bank’, in J. Roy and P. Gomis-Porqueras, eds., The Euro and the Dollar, Ashgate Publishing: Aldershot, UK, 2007, part 4, chapter 1.

‘Reinforcing the new Lisbon Message of Competitiveness and Innovation’, The European Union:  Annual Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, 2007, Vol. 45, pp. 89–105.

‘Explaining British Policy on the Euro’, in A. Verdun, ed., Britain and Canada and their large Neighbouring Monetary Unions, Nova Science, 2006, pp. 149-168.

Journal special editions

David has been a special issue guest editor for several journals. Most recently these include Journal of European Public Policy, 17, 7, 2010, special issue on 'At the Frontier of the Single European Market: The Political Economy of Market Integration in the Early Twenty-first Century'; the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10, 1, 2008, special issue on ‘Economic Interests and European Integration’; Journal of European Public Policy, 11, 5, 2004, special issue on 'EU Economic Governance: Revising the Rules'.

Current Research

David is currently involved in several research projects focusing upon the political economy of European marekt integration, Economic and Monetary Union and National financial systems and the financial crisis.

Current Teaching

David convenes and teaches on ‘Institutions and Policies of the European Union’ (IPEU) core course for the MSc in IEP & EUPL and ‘France in International Affairs' for the MSc in IEP & EUPL.

Current Supervision

David currently supervises PhD students working on the following subjects (among others):  Fiscal policy coordination in the Euro area; EU financial sector governance; the spread of Private-Public Partnerships in Europe; the political economy of EU enlargement; EU policy making on the illegal economy; EU-Mediterranean cooperation.

He is able to supervise students working on a wide-range of international / EU / comparative political economy topics; and EU politics more generally.

PhD in Politics