Prof Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen) will guide the next European Studies Reading Group on 'Interrogating Normative Power Europe'. In particular, we would like to invite all interested graduate students to join us for this session.
The European Studies Reading Group returns in 2017 - with financial support of the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub.
We are delighted to announce that Prof Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen) will guide the next session of the European Studies Reading Group on 'Interrogating Normative Power Europe'.
In particular, we would like to invite all interested graduate students to join us for this session. Please also refer to the outline of the reading group series and the readings for this session. For more information, please contact Sebastian Steingass.
About Thomas Diez
Thomas Diez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations. He joined the University of Tübingen in 2009. From 1995 to 1997, he was research fellow at the Mannheimer Center for European Social Research. In 1997, he spent six months at the Sussex European Institute as a Chevening-Scholar, before joining the European Security project group at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). Thomas was then appointed lecturer in International Relations Theory at the University of Birmingham in 2000, and eventually promoted to Professor in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he acted as Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies. In 2008/2009, he was guest professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, from where he then came to Tübingen. In September 2009, Diez was awarded the Anna-Lindh Award by three major European foundations for his outstanding contribution to the analysis of European foreign policy. For more information, please see here and here.
Readings
Diez, T. (2005) ‘Constructing the Self and Changing Others: Reconsidering “Normative Power Europe”’, Millennium, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 613-36.
Ahrens, B. and Diez, T. (2015) ‘Solidarisation and its limits: the EU and the transformation of international society’, Global Discourse, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 341-55.