Prof. Arne Niemann has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission, for his achievements in teaching and researching European integration.
Jean Monnet chairs can be awarded worldwide in order to enable chair holders to expand and deepen teaching on European Integration Studies. The chair holder for International Relations at Johannes Gutenberg University will focus in his Jean Monnet Programme particularly on European Union external policy.
Amongst others, the 3 year grant will be used to establish the lecture series "EU External Policy: practitioners’ and insiders’ perspectives", to host Jean Monnet Roundtable Debates and to extend the EU simulation, Model European Union (MEUM), to local schools.
The International Relations Unit at the Department of Political Science is proud to announce the second contribution to its new series of working papers, the Mainz Papers on International and European Politics (MPIEP): “Theorising Regionalism and External Influence: A Situation-structural Approach” authored by Johannes Muntschick (University of Mainz) continues the MPIEP series. The paper proposes an innovative theoretical approach to the analysis of regionalism by taking the impact of extra-regional relations and the influence of external actors explicitly into account. Its central assumptions are elucidated by brief plausibility probes on empirical examples from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), notably concerning regional economic, infrastructure and security cooperation.