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Dr Mary Farrell

Courses: Undergraduate

Politics of European Integration

International Organisations: Politics and Policy-Making

Courses: Postgraduate

Theoretical Perspectives in International Politics

Issues and Practice in International Politics: State and Nation Building

Research Methods in International Politics

 

Postgraduate Senior Tutor
Reader in European/International Politics
Recent Publications

Tel: 020 8331 9752
Email: m.farrell@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 335

Office hours 2009-10

Monday 5-6pm (MA students)

Thursday 1-2pm

Friday 3-4pm 

Qualifications:

PhD (London School of Economics)

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PUBLICATIONS

 

Research interests 

My research interests relate to the emergence and dynamics of regionalism in the global order, to the interaction between regional and global institutions of governance, and the political economy of the regional and global system. My work reflects the multi-disciplinary (political economy, international relations, governance) study of global regionalism, and maintains a comparative focus on regionalism in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The work comes from a critical interpretation of the contemporary representation of globalisation, the causal forces and actors, and particularly the assumptions regarding a ‘global order’. Responding to the criticisms directed at the global governance system, my research seeks to establish whether regional systems of governance can address such critiques as effectiveness and representation, as well as more general attributes such as order and justice.

 

In general, my research interests cover the international relations of the EU; comparative regional integration; regional order and world order; contemporary approaches and theories of regional and global governance; international institutions, the interaction between national and international systems of governance and administration; international political economy; globalisation and systems of governance. I am also interested in developing problem-based approaches to the study of issues in international and regional governance, including the development of case studies of regional cooperation for use as teaching materials.

 

Current Research Projects

 

  • Regional Integration in Africa: Challenges for Public Policy.
  • Regional Governance – between national and Global governance. This is an individual project, examining the nature of emerging forms of regional governance, the interaction between national and global levels, and assessing the potential for regional governance to address the defects of the global system.
  • Europe as a Model of Governance . As output from this research project, I was the guest editor of the Winter 2005 special edition of European Foreign Affairs Review, on the theme ‘EU External relations: Exporting the EU Model of Governance?’

Selected publications

Chapters

 

  1. ‘A Move Toward Hybrid Interregionalism in Asia’, in F. Söderbaum and Patrick Stälgren (eds), The European Union and the Global South (Lynne Rienner, 2010).

  1. ‘From Lome to Economic Partnership Agreements in Africa’, in F. Söderbaum and Patrik Stälgren (eds), The European Union and the Global South (Lynne Rienner, 2010).

  1. ‘The EU’s promotion of regional integration: Norms, Actorness and Geo-economic realities’, in Valeria Bellow, B. Gabrewold (2009) A Global Security Triangle: European, African and Asian Interaction (Routledge).

  1. ‘Spain and Portugal: continuity and consensus in Iberia’, in M. Carbone (ed) National Politics and European Integration: From the Constitution to the Lisbon Treaty (Edward Elgar, 2010)

  1. ‘EU policy Towards other Regions: Policy Learning in the External Promotion of Regional Integration’ in Anthony Zito (ed)  Learning and Governance in the EU Policy Making Process (Routledge, 2010).

  1. ‘Supporting African Regionalism: External Influences and Continental Shaping forces’, in M. Carbone (ed), One Europe, One Africa: Changing Dynamics in EU-Africa relations (Manchester University Press, 2011 forthcoming).

  1. ‘EU-Africa: Partnership, Governance and (Re)-evolving Relations’, in Uwe Wunderlich and David Bailey (eds), Handbook on the EU and Global Governance (Routledge, 2010).

  1. ‘Representing the EU at the UN’, in Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith, Intersecting Multilateralisms: The European Union at the United Nations (Palgrave, 2006).

  1. ‘Towards Cultural Autonomy in Belgium’, in Ephraim Nimni, ed. National Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics, (Routledge, April 2005)

  1. ‘Spain in the new European Union’, in Sebastian Balfour, Contemporary Spanish Politics, (Routledge, December 2004).

  1. ‘The EU and Inter-Regional Cooperation: In Search of Global Presence?, in A. Verdun and E. Jones, The Political Economy of European Integration, (Routledge, January 2005).

  1. ‘Regional Integration and Public Administration’, in Ali Farazmand and Jack Pinkowski, Handbook of Globalisation, Governance and Public Administration (Marcel Dekker, 2006).

  1. ‘From model to policy? The European Union policy on regional integration elsewhere’, in S. Meunier and K. McNamara, The State of the European Union, vol 8 (Oxford University Press, 2007).

  1. ‘EU and Africa: New Directions in Inter-regional Cooperation’, F. Soderbaum and L. van Langenhove, The EU as a Global Player, (Routledge, 2006).

  1. ‘Regional Integration – Balancing Cohesion and Competition’, in E. Jones, Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).

  1. ‘Conclusion: Possible European Futures’, in M. Farrell, S. Fella and M. Newman, European Integration in the 21st Century. Unity in Diversity (Sage, 2002).

  1. ‘The Global Politics of Regionalism: An Introduction’, in M. Farrell, B. Hettne, Global Politics of Regionalism. Theory and Practice (Pluto, 2005)

Books

 

  1. Global Politics of Regionalism. Theory and Practice, eds. Mary Farrell, Bjorn Hettne, (Pluto, August 2005).

  1. Rivalry, Regulation and Global Governance – Mary Farrell (Palgrave, 2007).

  1. Spain in the EU. The Road to Convergence (London, Macmillan/Palgrave, 2001).

  1. European Technology Policy. The making of a technology community (UNL press, 1996).

  1. EU and WTO Regulatory Frameworks. Competition or Complementarity? (Kogan Page, 1999).

  1. European Unity in Diversity. Challenges for the Twenty-first Century. Editors – Mary Farrell, Stefano Fella, Michael Newman, Sage, 2002).

Articles/Working Papers

 

  1. ‘Bridging the Gap between EU, Mediterranean and African relations’, L’Europe en Formation’ Summer 2010, 169-191.

  1. ‘EU policy towards other regions: policy learning in the external promotion of regional integration’, Journal of European Public Policy, 16, 8, 2009, 1165-84.

  1. ‘Internationalising EU development policy’, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 9, 2, 225-40.

  1. ‘A Triumph of Realism over Idealism? Cooperation between the European Union and Africa’, Journal of European Integration, no. 3, September 2005, 263-283.

  1. ‘EU External Relations: Exporting the EU Model of Global Governance’, European Foreign Affairs Review, Winter 2005, pp. 451- 463.

  1. ‘Representing the EU in the United Nations’, GARNET Working Paper, 06/2006. Available at www.garnet-eu.org.
  2. ‘Regional Autonomy and Public Sector Reform in Spain. Is European integration setting the pace?’ CESAA Review, June 2001 (Australian European Community Studies Association journal).
  3. ‘Meeting the conditions of monetary union: the challenge to the Spanish model of regionalisation’. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 4, 2, 2002, 171-190.
  4. ‘European Integration and Cohesion - The experience of Spain and Ireland’.  Journal of Asian Economics, December 2003.
  5. ‘The EU and Inter-Regional Cooperation: In Search of Global Presence? UNU/CRIS Working Paper, 2004/9, Available at www.cris.unu.edu

Review articles

 

34. ‘Spain and Portugal in the European Union. The Impact of Regional Integration’, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, May 2005.

 

35. ‘Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order’, Politikon, Spring 2005.

 

36. ‘Greece and Spain in European foreign policy’, Journal of European Integration History, 9, 3, 2003.

 

37. ‘The Unity of Europe’, Labour Focus on Eastern Europe. September 2003.