Patrick Holden

Dr Patrick Holden

Job title: Lecturer in International Relations, School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
Address: Room 103, 21 Portland Villas, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585788
Email: patrick.holden@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Research and teaching in relation to International Political Economy , the European Union in the World, International Development Policy, Global Governance and Regional Integration.

Qualifications & background

2004-2005 Early Stage Researcher, University of Cambridge, Centre for International Studies. (Marie Curie Fellowship).

2001-2005 University of Limerick, PHD on EU aid policy and the reform of governance in North Africa. (Awarded Government of Ireland Scholarship 2001).

2000-2001 University of Limerick, MA Degree in European Integration (First Class Honours) (Dissertation topic - Pre-accession aid).

1992-1995 University College Dublin, BA in History and English (Honours, 2.1).

Teaching interests
EU external relations, European Integration, International Political Economy and Global Governance.

UoP Research group membership

Plymouth International Studies Centre
Research Centre for Sustainable Leadership, Governance and Policy (SLGP)

Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Veit Bachmann 2009: Regulating geopolitical space: EU interaction with East Africa

Annette Elliot 2009: Building Positive Peace? A gendered analysis of United Nations Security Council Resolutiin 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

Publications

Recent Books:

A Dictionary of International Trade Organizations and Agreements. Routledge 2011
(including regional trade organizations and international relations theory).

'In Search of Structural Power: EU aid policy as a global political instrument', Ashgate 2009.
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=490&sort=pubdate&forthcoming=1&title_id=10266&edition_id=11177

Recent Articles:

‘Developing Polyarchy? The European Union and its Structural Policies for Middle Eastern Neighbours’ European Foreign Affairs Review 2010 Volume 15, Pages 589 - 609.

‘Security, power or profit? The economic diplomacy of the US and the EU in North Africa’ Journal of North African Studies, 2009 Volume 14 Issue 1, Pages 11 - 33.

'The European Union's Mediterranean Policy in Theory and Practice' (Review article) Mediterranean Politics 2009 Volume 14 Issue 1, Pages 125 - 135.

‘Development through Integration? EU aid reform and the evolution of Mediterranean aid policy’, The Journal of International Development, 2008,

Volume 20 Issue 2, Pages 230 - 244.

Forthcoming:

‘Forging a sphere of influence? The European Union’s engagement with Sub-Saharan Africa’ in Asle Toje and Barbara Kunz eds. Neoclassical realism in European politics: bringing power back in.

Recent Media:

‘The missing link? The role of academia in raising awareness of global development issues’ Connect-World website 10/02/2009 http://www.connect-world.net/Media_Focus/upload/The_missing_link.pdf

‘The hour of Europe?’ EUObserver 15.10.2008 http://euobserver.com/9/26932

‘Do all roads lead to NATO?’ EUobserver 25.08.2008 http://euobserver.com/13/26633

Previously Published:

‘Tensions in the organisation of aid policy for foreign policy purposes: a case study of the European Union’s Mediterranean Aid Programmes’, in the European Journal of Development Research Volume 18 Issue 3 2006, pp. 387-412.

'The Emerging Euro-Mediterranean Area: Europeanisation or Globalisation?'
Working Paper for the Europe in the World Centre at the University of Liverpool. Available @ www.liv.ac.uk/ewc

‘Hybrids on the Rim? The EU’s Mediterranean Aid Policy’ In Democratization, Volume 12 Issue 5 2005, pp 461-480.

‘Partnership Lost? The European Union’s Mediterranean Aid Programmes’ In Mediterranean Politics, Volume 10 Issue 1 2005, pp. 19-39.

‘The European Community’s MEDA Aid Programme: A Strategic Instrument of Civilian Power?’ In The European Foreign Affairs Review,

Volume 8 Issue 3 2003, pp 347-363.

‘Cohesion or Autonomization? The EU’s pre-accession aid programmes’

In Perspectives: UL Political and Economic Review, Vol 3 2002, pp 1-10.

Reports & invited lectures

The end of solidarity? The Eurozone crisis and the EU model of integration

International conference on Regional integration in Europe and Africa:

models, practices and comparative perspectives. University of Pretoria Department of Political Sciences16-18 February 2011.

A Leading Light? The EU and the Global “Aid for Trade” Regime
Panel 11H Changing Dynamics in EU Development Policy

At the EUSA 12^th Biennial International Conference: Boston Massachusetts, March 3-5 2011.