Christian Schweiger

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Christian Schweiger (born May 16, 1972 ) is a German political scientist . Since 2017 he has held the professorship “European systems of government in comparison” at the Institute for Political Science of the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Chemnitz .

Life and academic background

Schweiger studied political science, sociology and English philology at the University of Regensburg from 1994 to 1999 with a master's degree . Between 2000 and 2003 he was a PhD and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science and European Studies at Derby University in the UK. There Schweiger was the subject of "British and German interests in EU enlargement and reform" in 2003 his doctorate . Between 2006 and 2013 he worked as an Assistant Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs at the University of Durham . In 2017 he completed his habilitation in political science at the Technical University of Chemnitz as a private lecturer Dr. habil. The external reviewer was Klaus H. Goetz from the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Schweiger's research focuses on the European Union (institutions, policy fields and comparative national studies of the member states), international political economy, globalization and research into transatlantic relations.

Schweiger has been a member of the editorial team of the journal Economic Papers, published by the Warsaw School of Economics in Poland , as well as an external consultant and reviewer for the journal Problemy polityki społecznej - Problems of Social Policy , published by the University of Warsaw , since 2012 . From 2010 to 2014 he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the British International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP).

Publications (selection)

  • Britain, Germany and the Future of the European Union . Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke 2007
  • The EU and the Global Financial Crisis. New Varieties of Capitalism (= New Horizons in European Politics series ). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2014.
  • Creating social legitimacy in the EU , in: Social Europe Journal. 3rd July 2019.
  • The European Union , in: Robert Looney (Ed.): Routledge Handbook of International Trade Agreements. Routledge, Abingdon 2019, pp. 251-260
  • Germany's Role in the EU-27 Leadership Constellation after Brexit , in: German Politics and Society, Volume 36, Issue 2: 100–117, 2019
  • The Global Financial Crisis and the Euro Crisis as Contentious Issues in German-American Relations, in: German Politics, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp. 214-229, 2019

Editor of edited volumes

  • Drifting towards the Exit? Taking Stock of Britain's EU Membership after 40 years . Series of publications of the German England Research Working Group (ADEF) 70, Wißner, Augsburg 2015
  • with José M. Magone: The Effects of the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis. Differentiated integration between the center and the new peripheries EU . Routledge, Abingdon 2015
  • with José M. Magone, Brigid Laffan: Core-Periphery Relations in the European Union: Power and Conflict in a Dualist Political Economy. Routledge / UACES, Abingdon, Contemporary European Studies Book Series, 2016
  • with Anna Visvizi: Central and Eastern Europe in the EU. Challenges and Perspectives under Crisis Conditions. Routledge Studies in the European Economy. Routledge, London 2018

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SURNAME Schweiger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1972