In-house editorial staff
Dr Michael Taylor
Senior Editor, Eastern Europe
D.Phil. Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Has worked for over twenty years as an analyst of Soviet and East European affairs, first for the BBC’s Monitoring Service, where he specialised in Afghanistan and Poland, and then for the Economist Intelligence Unit, where he specialised in the western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia), and in the prospects for NATO enlargement.
Günther von Billerbeck
Senior Editor/Analyst, Europe
M.A. in History and Political Science from Free University in Berlin (2003) and M.Sc. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (2005). Worked for approximately four years with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a diplomat and political analyst, focusing on national and eastern politics, natural resources and the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of militia groups. Worked with the World Bank in the Conflict and Social Development section and as a research assistant for a German parliamentarian. Served in the NATO Stabilisation Forces (SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1997.
Region Heads
Dr David Goldey
Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Senior Fellow in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Visiting Professor, University of Paris, III, Sorbonne, 1987-90. Visiting Fellow, Western Societies Program, Cornell University, 1991-1992. Author of articles on French and Portuguese elections.
Dr David Hine
Fellow and Tutor in Politics and University Lecturer, Christ Church, University of Oxford
Specialist in contemporary European politics. Author of Governing Italy: The Politics of Bargained Pluralism and The European Union, State Autonomy and National Social Policy.
Dr Sara Binzer Hobolt
University Lecturer in Comparative European Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Lincoln College
Honorary professor in Political Science, University of Southern Denmark. Deputy Chair, PIREDEU (“Providing an Infrastructure for Electoral Democracy in the European Union”). Author of Europe in Question: Referendums on European Integration, (OUP, forthcoming).
Dr Hartmut Mayer
Fellow in Politics at St Peter's College, University of Oxford
Specialist in German and European Politics as well as International Relations in general. Prior to his current position, studied history, politics and international relations in Berlin, Boston, Cambridge (UK), Florence and Oxford. In addition, has been a freelance journalist in Germany for more than ten years, working amongst others for Die Zeit and Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Prof Anand Menon
Professor of West European Politics, University of Birmingham
Head of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham; has written extensively on Western European politics. Holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has acted as a Special Adviser to the House of Lords EU committee. Recent publications include Governing Europe, Comparative Federalism: The EU and US in Comparative Perspective and European Politics (all published by OUP).
Dr Dimitar Bechev
Research Fellow, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Specialist in South East and Central Europe. Has published on EU enlargment, state-building and Balkan politics. Currently editing a book on borders and conflicts in the Mediterranean.
Dr Gwendolyn Sasse
University Reader in Comparative Politics, and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College
Specialist on Central and East European politics, in particular Ukraine, EU enlargement, the EU's eastern neighbourhood, minority issues and ethnic conflict. Holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Author of The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (Harvard University Press, 2007); Co-Author of Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU’s Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Myth of Conditionality (Palgrave, 2004). Her recent articles include The Politics of Conditionality: The Norm of Minority Protection before and after EU Accession, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 6, 2008; The European Neighbourhood Policy: Conditionality Revisited for the EU's Eastern Neighbours, Europe-Asia-Studies, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2008, pp. 295-316.
