Alistair ColeHead of GIS Department
Professor Alistair Cole has recently taken up the Headship of the Government and International Studies department at Hong Kong Baptist University. He obtained a 1st in Government and History from the LSE (1980, awarded the Bassett Prize for Political Science) and a D. Phil from Balliol College, Oxford (1986, funded by a BA grant). He held positions in Oxford, Caen, Aston, Keele and Bradford before being named as Professor of European Politics at Cardiff University, Wales- UK in 1999. From 2015-2019, Alistair Cole was Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Studies, Lyon, France. He has published extensively, mainly in the field of French and European politics, with 24 books (6 single author monographs, 6 co-written monographs and 10 edited or co-edited books), 68 refereed journal articles, 25 professional articles and 62 chapters in edited books to his credit. His publications are widely cited (with an H Index of 31 according to Google Scholar). Funded projects in the past decade have clustered around questions of trust, transparency, convergence and transfer, each involving conceptualisation in a multi-level and/or transnational context. He continues to work on these questions that are key to understanding comparative forms of regional integration; intra- and inter-state relationships, civil society and the changing bases of political legitimacy. Professor Cole is also increasingly interested in EU-Asia relations, hence the title of the proposed talk.
