A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the European Institute is dedicated to the multi-disciplinary study of Europe and the EU. With staff expertise spanning law, social policy, geography, political sociology, political science, political economy and philosophy, we aim to study the interplay between conceptions of European-ness and institutionalised understandings of politics, economics, and society.
Research Themes
The Centre is multi-disciplinary in that it explores these concepts across three major research themes:
Affiliated Projects
Additionally the Our LSE Europe in Question Discussion Paper Series, LSE Perspectives on Europe Lecture Series, seminars, workshops and databases pool this cross-cutting expertise together in an effort to derive inter-disciplinary synergies of thought on Europe.
More information on the Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence events can be found here|
In addition, we benefit from the collective knowledge of our associated research centres, which include: LSEE Research on Southeast Europe, the Forum for European Philosophy, the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, and Hellenic Observatory. We also have strong links with external organisations such as Breugel |, CEPS |, Federal Trust |and Centre for European Reform |.
Study
The Jean Monnet Center of Excellence is affiliated to the European Institute MSc Degree Programmes. For more information about the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence study options please refer to European Institute Study program|.
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Upcoming Jean Monnet Event
LSE European Institute - LEQS| Annual Lecture 2012
'A European asymmetry: making markets and dealing with their externalities'
Date: Monday 28 May 2012
Time: 6.30-8.00pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Prof Colin Crouch
Chair: Dr Jonathan White
Extending the scope of markets always creates externalities, many of which are negative. Depending on the balance of political power and economic advantage, some of these might be ignored, some might be dealt with by further marketization, but there will always be some that call out for non-market intervention. Paradoxically therefore, the extension of markets will often be associated with the extension of regulation or other forms of public policy. Contemporary neoliberal orthodoxy threatens in general the potentially benign combinations and compromises that can flow from this paradox. Within the European Union the possibilities of achieving such outcomes is weakened further by an emerging division of labour that increasingly gives a market-making mandate to European institutions, leaving any compensatory measures to nation states. The cause of European integration is then itself further weakened by this division of labour. This combination of Polanyian and Scharpfian reasoning will be applied to recent developments in EU policy in the labour and social fields.
Colin Crouch is Professor Emeritus of the Business School of Warwick University. He is also the External Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne. He previously taught sociology at the LSE, and was fellow and tutor in politics at Trinity College, Oxford, and professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. Until December 2004 he was professor of sociology at the European University Institute, Florence. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academy of Social Sciences.
He is currently leading a European Union research project on the governance of uncertainty and sustainability in labour markets and social policy in European countries. He has published within the fields of comparative European sociology and industrial relations, on economic sociology, and on contemporary issues in British and European politics. His most recent books include: Social Change in Western Europe (1999); Post-Democracy (2004); Capitalist Diversity and Change: Recombinant Governance and Institutional Entrepreneurs (2005); and The Strange Non-death of Neolibealism (2011).
This is a free and open to the public lecture.
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