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Kevin Featherstone

Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Fellow in the Hellenic Observatory Centre, LSE

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Kevin Featherstone is Emeritus Professor (European Institute) and Professorial Research Fellow in the Hellenic Observatory at LSE. He was Director of the Hellenic Observatory from 2002 to 2024. He has held visiting positions at the University of Minnesota; New York University; Harvard University; and, the European University Institute (Firenze). Before LSE, he held academic posts at the universities of Stirling and Bradford. He has received a number of honours: including, 'Grand Commander, Order of the Phoenix' of the Hellenic Republic (2021); honorary doctorate, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2022); and Honorary Greek citizenship (2023). He was the first foreign member of the National Council for Research and Technology (ESET) in Greece, serving from 2010-2013. He served on an ad hoc committee for the reorganisation of the Greek government in 2010-11. He has written extensively on modern Greek politics, and on the European Union. In 2014, the European Parliament selected one of his books (‘The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union’, co-authored with Kenneth Dyson) as one of its ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember’. He has contributed regularly to Greek and international media on European and Greek politics.

Check out Kevin Featherstone's page at the Social Science Encyclopedia.

Research interests

Kevin Featherstone's research falls within comparative politics, public policy, and political economy. His focus has been on the European Union and on contemporary Greece: both separately and in combination. He has been especially interested in the creation of Economic and Monetary Union and euro-zone governance; the politics of Europeanization; institutions and reform capacity in Greece; core executive politics in Greece; and, latterly, the discursive politics of euroscepticism in different national contexts.

Expertise

Political Science, Political Economy, European Union, Greece