Dr. Finn Laursen

Professor and Canada Research Chair in European Union Studies

Finn Laursen holds the Canada Research Chair in European Union (EU) Studies at the Dalhousie Arts and Social Sciences Faculty and is Professor in the Department of Political Science. He received his university education at Aarhus University, Denmark (MA) and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (PhD). Earlier positions include being a lecturer at the London School of Economics (1985-88), Professor, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1988-95), Professor and Director, South Jutland University Centre, Esbjerg, Denmark (1995-98), Foreign Professor, Tsukuba University, Japan (1998-99) and Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (1999-2006).

In recent years his research has focussed upon European integration, especially the bid decisions concerning the EU Treaties and their reform as well as successive enlargements of the EU and the role played by the EU in the global system.

Finn Laursen has published extensively. He has authored and edited or co-edited about 20 books and published about 100 journal articles or book chapters. His articles have appeared in various journals including World Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Cooperation and Conflict. His latest edited volumes are: Comparative Regional Integration: Theoretical Approaches (Ashgate, 2003) and The Treaty of Nice: Actor Preferences, Bargaining and Institutional Choice (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006).