Jolyon Howorth
Jean Monnet Professor ad personam & Professor Emeritus of European Politics, University of Bath
Welcome to my webpage!
I am the Emeritus Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath. In spring 2022, I formally retired after fifty-five years of university teaching, but I continue to be active in research, writing and lecturing.
Between 1966 and 2022, I held appointments at the Collège de Genève, the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Aston University, the University of Bath, Yale University, and Harvard University.
I have also held Visiting Professorships at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris; the Free University of Berlin; Luiss Guido-Carli University (Rome); the University of Washington-Seattle; New York University; Columbia University; the New School for Social Research, New York; the University of Chapel Hill-North Carolina; the University of New South Wales, Canberra.
I originally trained as a historian and my early publications (1970 to 1985) were on late nineteenth-century French social history.
In the mid-1970s, in part because of my involvement in anti-Vietnam War activism in Paris, I began to switch my focus to international relations. Over the past forty years (1983 to 2023), I have researched and written about questions related to the security and defence policy of France and the European Union.
I have published fifteen academic books, almost two hundred academic journal articles and over one hundred chapters in edited academic books. I have delivered five hundred and fifty conference papers in thirty-four countries on five continents.
I have also been deeply involved in the policy world and have worked closely with numerous think-tanks across Europe. In addition to my purely academic work, I have published widely in more policy-oriented outlets. I have consulted with governments in both Europe and the US.
Although I was born and formally educated in the United Kingdom, my main scholarly focus has been on the European Union and France. I have lived for decades in Paris, which I have seen since the late 1960s as my home. In 2019, I was honoured to be awarded French citizenship under the special regime of “étranger ayant contribué au rayonnement de la France”[1].
For further elaboration on these basic details, please visit my Wikipedia page at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolyon_Howorth
[1] “foreigner who has contributed to the international significance of France”
Security and Defence Policy in the European Union
The Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has come a long way since its inception as the European Security and Defence Identity under NATO. Yet more than a decade after emerging as an autonomous entity, with its own capacity for civilian crisis management and military action, the European Union's CSDP is still very much a work in progress.
This fully revised and updated new edition provides the most comprehensive account available of the CSDP and the debates surrounding it. It draws on the author's own extensive research in the area, including hundreds of interviews with key actors, and takes account of developments since the reforms of the Lisbon Treaty. A brand new chapter assesses international relations theory and European integration theory as tools to understand the CSDP, and critically engages with theoretical approaches that view security and defense policy as the exclusive domain of sovereign nation-states. The book concludes with an analysis of future hurdles for the European Union as it responds to new and often unpredictable crises across the globe.