Affiliations

• Director of the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge.
• Affiliated Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Umeå University, Sweden
• Maître de conférences, Université libre de Bruxelles
• Professeur invité, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Aix-en-Provence
• Honorary Professor at Cardiff University
  Cardiff University
  Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...
  
  , where he was previously Professor of Politics
• Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College Oxford University, 2004
• European Studies Centre Visiting Research Fellow at St Antony's College Oxford University, 2005–06
• Elected a member of the Senior Common Room of St Antony's, 2006
• Elected Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Queen Mary, University of London
  Queen Mary, University of London
  Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
  
  , 2009
• Member of the Residential Colloquium at Princeton University
  Princeton University
  Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
  
  's Center of Theological Inquiry, 2010
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
  Royal Historical Society
  The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
  
  , 2009
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  Royal Society of Arts
  The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...
  
  , 2009
• Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences
  Academy of Social Sciences
  The Academy of Social Sciences is a research body in the UK. , the Academy was composed of over 450 Academicians and 32 Learned Societies. Academicians are distinguished scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors...
  
   (United Kingdom), 2010

Awards

• Honorary Doctorate, University of Umeå, Sweden (October 2009) "in recognition of his contribution to research in the field of European politics and territorial governance".
• Officier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France (2010) "in recognition of his research on European politics and his contribution to French language and culture".

Publications

• Subnational Government: the French Experience (Macmillan Palgrave, 2007)
• Reiunile si Guvernul subnational: Experienta Francesza, (Bucharest: Institutul European, 2009)[Romanian translation of above book]
• (with Mirela Bogdani) Albania and the European Union: The Tumultuous Journey to Integration and Accession, (London: IB Tauris, 2007)
• Subnational Democracy in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities (Oxford University Press, hardcover 2001; paperback 2004)
• (with M. Keating and K. Deschouwer), Culture, Institutions and Regional Development: a Study of Eight European Regions, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003)
• (edited with Frank Hendriks and Anders Lidstrom), The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• (edited with Kris Deschouwer), The Transformation of Territorial Governance in the 21st Century, (Brussels: Flemish Academy of Belgium for Arts and Sciences, 2007)
• (edited with David Hanley), Spanish Political Parties, (Cardiff: Wales University Press, 2006)
• (Guest editor with David Hanley), Religion et Politique, (Revue de Science Politique de l’Europe Méridionale. No. 17; Nov. 2002)
• (edited with Alain Delcamp), La décentralisation dans les Etats de l'Union européenne, Coll. Les Etudes, (Paris: La Documentation Française, 2003, 2ième édition)
• (edited with Claude Olivesi and F. Daftary), Autonomies Insulaires: vers une politique de différence pour la Corse (Ajaccio: Albiana, 1999)
• (edited with Michael Keating), The Political Economy of Regionalism (London: Routledge, 1997)
• (edited with Sonia Mazey), The End of the French Unitary State? Ten Years of Regionalization in France (London: Frank Cass Ltd., 1995)
• (edited with Arenilla Saez and T. Toonen) Europa de las Regiones: una Perspectiva Intergubernatal (Granada: University of Granada, 1994)
• (edited) Southern Europe Studies Guide (Bowker Saur Ltd, London, 1993)
• (edited with M. Connolly) Public Policy in Northern Ireland: Adoption or adaptation? (Belfast: Policy Research Institute, 1990)

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