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Profiles
Dr Patrick Holden
Associate Professor (Reader)
School of Law, Criminology and Government (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Patrick can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- European Union
- Development aid
- International organisations
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Research and teaching in relation to International Political Economy , the European Union in the World, International Development Policy, Global Governance and Regional Integration.
Qualifications
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).
Key publications
2016 'What future for the Global Aid for Trade Initiative? Towards an assessment of its achievements and limitations' Development Policy Review 34, (4) 593-619 , DOI Open access
Teaching interests
Europe in the World, International Political Economy and Global Governance.
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
Key publications
2016 'What future for the Global Aid for Trade Initiative? Towards an assessment of its achievements and limitations' Development Policy Review 34, (4) 593-619 , DOI Open access
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'Irreconcilable tensions? The EU’s development policy in an era of global illiberalism' Journal of Contemporary European Research 16, (2) 101-119 , DOI Open access
2019 'Territory, geoeconomics and power politics: The Irish government's framing of Brexit' Political Geography 76, 102063-102063 , DOI Open access
2019 'Finding common ground? The European Union and European Civil Society framing of the role of trade in the Sustainable Development Goals' Journal of Common Market Studies , DOI Open access
2017 'The European Commission and fiscal governance reform: a strategic actor?' West European Politics 1-21 , DOI Open access
2016 'Eternal potential? Temporality, complexity and the incoherent power of the European Union' Cooperation and Conflict 51, (4) 407-427 , DOI Open access
2016 'What future for the Global Aid for Trade Initiative? Towards an assessment of its achievements and limitations' Development Policy Review 34, (4) 593-619 , DOI Open access
2015 'The Mediterranean and the Global Sustainable Development Goals' Mediterranean Politics 21, (2) 292-299 , DOI
2015 'Neoliberalism by default? A critical discourse analysis of the European Union’s trade and development policy in an era of crisis' Journal of International Relations and Development , DOI
2014 'Ireland, Africa and the End of Empire: Small State Identity in the Cold War, 1955-1975' IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES 29, (4) 604-605 , DOI
2014 'Tensions in the Discourse and Practice of the European Union's Aid for Trade' Journal of Contemporary Politics 20, (1) 90-102
2012 '"Leading Through Civilian Power" or Creeping Inertia?' Foreign Policy Journal
2011 'A New Beginning? Does the Union for the Mediterranean Herald a New Functionalist Approach to Co-operation in the Region?' MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS 16, (1) 155-169 , DOI
2010 'Developing Polyarchy? The European Union and Its Structural
Policies for Middle Eastern Neighbours' European Foreign Affairs Review 15, (5) 589-609 Publisher Site
2009 'Security, power or profit? The economic diplomacy of the US and the EU in North Africa' The Journal of North African Studies 14, (1) 11-32 , DOI
2009 'The European Union's Mediterranean Policy in Theory and Practice' MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS 14, (1) 125-134 , DOI
2008 'Development through Integration? EU aid reform and the evolution of Mediterranean Aid Policy' The Journal of International Development 20, (2) 230-244 , DOI
2007 'Morocco, the Islamist awakening and other challenges' MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS 12, (1) 114-115
2006 'Conflicting Principles in the Organisation of Aid Policy for Political Purposes: A case study of the European Union's Mediterranean Aid' The European Journal of Development Research 18 (3), 387-411 , DOI
2006 'Tensions in the organisation of aid policy for foreign policy purposes: a case study of the European Union’s Mediterranean Aid Programmes’' European Journal of Development Research 18, (3) 387-412
2005 'Partnership Lost? The EU's Mediterranean Aid Programmes' Mediterranean Politics 10 (1), 19-37 , DOI
2003 'The European Community's MEDA Aid Programme: A Strategic Instrument of Civilian Power' European Foreign Affairs Review 8 (3), 347-363
2002 'Cohesion or Autonomization? The EU’s pre-accession aid programmes’' Perspectives: UL Political and Economic Review 3, 1-10
Books
2011 A Dictionary of International Trade Organizations and Agreements. Routledge
2009 In search of structural power: EU aid policy as a global political instrument.
2008 In Search of Structural Power: EU aid policy as a global political instrument. Ashgate Publishing
Chapters
2017 'Globalization and the Mediterranean' in Gillespie R Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics Routledge 244-255
2015 '‘The Rising Powers and the Ethics of Global Trade and Development Governance’' Rising powers, global governance and global ethics, Routledge
2012 'Forging a sphere of influence? The European Union's engagement with Sub-Saharan Africa' in Toje A; Kunz B Neoclassical Realism in European Politics: Bringing Power Back in Manchester University Press
2012 'The end of solidarity? The Euro Crisis and the EU Model of Integration' in Fioramonti L Regions and Crises: New Challenges for Contemporary Regionalisms Palgrave Macmillan 67-86
2011 'Still "leading from the edge"? New Labour and the European Union' in Daddow O; Gaskarth J British Foreign Policy: The New Labour Years Palgrave Macmillan 157-169
2004 'Strategic intervention or showcase? EU aid as a force for change in Morocco’' in Peter Xuereb The European Union and the Mediterranean: The Mediterranean’s European Challenges, Volume V EDRC, Malta
Other academic activities
I am on the editorial board of Mediterranean Politics.
I am the external examiner for the MA in International Politics at Sussex University
I have served as an evaluator of ESRC and ESF (European Science Foundation) Projects.
I contributed to the Trinity International Development Initiative’s submission to the Irish Government’s review of its development White Paper (March 2012).
External Examiner for PhDs at the University of Aston 2011 and University of Ghent 2012.
Chair of the Plymouth Business School’s Faculty Research Ethical Approval Committee 2010-2011.
Joint-Manager of the International Relations undergraduate programme at Plymouth University: September 2011-May 2012.