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Professor Clive Church
BA (Exeter), PhD (UCL, London)
Emeritus Professor of European Studies
Profile
A graduate of Exeter University, Prof Church’s academic career started as a Teaching Assistant in University College, London and the School of Oriental and African Studies. From 1963-65 he was Junior Lecturer in Modern History in Trinity College, Dublin. From there he went to the University of Lancaster as Lecturer in French History, rising to be Senior Lecturer in European Studies in 1975. Transferring to Kent in 1981 he taught a variety of historical and political courses, including Swiss Studies, first for the School of Languages and then in the School of Politics and International Relations. Promoted Reader in 1988 and Professor in 1992, he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration in 1995. He was the first Director of the Kent Centre for Europe, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, and has been an Emeritus Professor since 2003.
Research Interests
His continuing academic interests are in European constitutional development and Swiss political affairs. Oddly for an Englishman, he likes treaties, constitutions and theory. Even more oddly for an Englishman he specialises on Switzerland, probably the most fascinating (because of its use of direct democracy) and most overlooked small state in Western Europe. Since the 1970s he has written widely on Swiss history, democracy and Swiss relations with Europe. He also comments frequently on Swiss politics and elections on radio and in the press. He is currently working on the 2007 federal elections and the rise of Euroscepticism in Switzerland and is planning an edited history of Switzerland.
Selected Publications
| 2006 | (ed.) Switzerland and the European Union. London: Routledge |
| 2006 | Understanding the European Constitution: an Introduction to the EU Constitutional Treaty. London: Routledge [co-authored with David Phinnemore] |
| 2005 | The Dynamics of Confederalism and Federalism: Comparing Switzerland and the EU. Regional and Federal Studies 15/2: 163-85 [co-authored with Paolo Dardanelli] |
| 2004 | The Politics and Government of Switzerland. Basingstoke: Palgrave |
| 2004 | Swiss Euroscepticism: Local Variations on Wider Themes. European Studies 20: 269-90 |
| 2002 | The Penguin Guide to the European Treaties. London: Penguin [co-authored with David Phinnemore] |
| 2000 | Redefining Swiss Relations with Europe. In Michael Butler et al. (eds), The Making of Modern Switzerland, 1848-1998. Basingstoke: Macmillan |
| 2000 | Switzerland: a Paradigm in Evolution. Parliamentary Affairs 53/1:96-113. |
| 1995 | Continuity and Change in Contemporary Europe. Aldershot: Edward Elgar [co-authored with Gisela Hendriks] |
| 1995 | Switzerland – Greens in a Confederal Polity. In Dick Richardson and Chris Rootes (eds), The Green Challenge – The Development of Green Parties in Europe. London: Routledge |
| 1992 | The Development of the Swiss Green Party. Environmental Politics 1/2: 252-82 |
| 1989 | Behind the Consociational Screen: Politics in Contemporary Switzerland. West European Politics 12/1: 35-54 |
| 1983 | Europe in 1830. London: Allen & Unwin |
| 1981 | Revolution and Red Tape: the French Ministerial Bureaucracy, 1770-1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press |