Carlos Closa
Professor Carlos Closa holds a Ph. D. in Politics, Universitty of Hull (UK) (1993); M.A. in European Integration and Cooperation (1990) (U. Hull). He is also Diplomado en Ciencia Política y Derecho Constitucional, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC), Madrid (1988) and holds degrees in Sociology and Political Science (Universidad Complutense, UCM), Madrid, 1987. Between 2004 and 2008, he was Deputy Director of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales(Ministry of Presidency) and between 2005 and 2009, he was member of the Venice Commission for Democracy through Law (Council of Europe) representing Spain. He has been formerly professor at the University of Zaragoza, Complutense (Madrid) and tutor at the University of Hull. He has been Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and he has been Professor at the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset (IUOG), Madrid since 1999. He was also Visiting Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Centre of Harvard University (2002) and Jean Monnet Fellow (1995-1996) and Salvador de Madariaga Fellow(2004) at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), Senior Emile Nöel Fellow at New York University (NYU) (2010-2011) and Affiliated Scholar at the Global Governance Programme of the EUI (2010-).
As consultant, he has collaborated with the European Commission (DG Justice, Freedom and Security), the UN Programme for Development (UNDP) in Iraq (UNAMI) and the Friedrich Neumann Foundation on advising on constitution-making in Iraq and territorial de-centralization in Thailand; he has also participated in a Council of Europe programme for capacity building involving national parliamentarians in Serbia and Montenegro and with the Spanish Cooperation Agency (AECID) in formation and training on regional integration in Latin America, decentralization processes in the Andean area and formation of integration parliamentarians. Currently, he collaborates with the EU Commission and the Council of Europe in a project on the implementation of the Constitution of Bolivia. He collaborates usually with the Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos and the Fundación Alternativas, where he has published several policy papers, with the Foundation Notre Europe, the EU Committe of Regions and with the Bureau of Policy Advisers of the President of the European Commission.
He currently directs two research projects and he is member of a FVI project. The first directed project is a contract with the EU Commission to elaborate a Study on how the memory of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Europe is dealt with in the Member States JLS/2008/C4/006, in which 27 national experts from EU member states take part (http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/doc_centre/rights/studies/docs/memory_of_crimes_en.pdf). The second project is entitled National institutions and European integration: The ratification of EU reform treaties. Carlos Closa participates also in a VI Framework Program Project: Reconstituting democracy in Europe (RECON) (http://www.reconproject.eu/)
He has published a large number of articles in peer review journals in English, Spanish, French and Italian on EU citizenship, the EU Constitutional structure, Europeanization and the EU relation with the member states in journals such as Common Market Law Review, Journal of European Integration, Law and Philosophy, European Law Journal;European Public Law, Comparative European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Politique Europeenne,South European Society and Politics, or Revista de Estudios Políticos, Revista Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administraciòn, Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto in Spanish. His main research interests are Comparative Regional Integration (Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa) with special attention to constitutional and institutional aspects; and politics of memory and transitional justice.
Phone: +34916022482
Address: Calle Albasanz 26-28
28037 Madrid
Spain
As consultant, he has collaborated with the European Commission (DG Justice, Freedom and Security), the UN Programme for Development (UNDP) in Iraq (UNAMI) and the Friedrich Neumann Foundation on advising on constitution-making in Iraq and territorial de-centralization in Thailand; he has also participated in a Council of Europe programme for capacity building involving national parliamentarians in Serbia and Montenegro and with the Spanish Cooperation Agency (AECID) in formation and training on regional integration in Latin America, decentralization processes in the Andean area and formation of integration parliamentarians. Currently, he collaborates with the EU Commission and the Council of Europe in a project on the implementation of the Constitution of Bolivia. He collaborates usually with the Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos and the Fundación Alternativas, where he has published several policy papers, with the Foundation Notre Europe, the EU Committe of Regions and with the Bureau of Policy Advisers of the President of the European Commission.
He currently directs two research projects and he is member of a FVI project. The first directed project is a contract with the EU Commission to elaborate a Study on how the memory of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Europe is dealt with in the Member States JLS/2008/C4/006, in which 27 national experts from EU member states take part (http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/doc_centre/rights/studies/docs/memory_of_crimes_en.pdf). The second project is entitled National institutions and European integration: The ratification of EU reform treaties. Carlos Closa participates also in a VI Framework Program Project: Reconstituting democracy in Europe (RECON) (http://www.reconproject.eu/)
He has published a large number of articles in peer review journals in English, Spanish, French and Italian on EU citizenship, the EU Constitutional structure, Europeanization and the EU relation with the member states in journals such as Common Market Law Review, Journal of European Integration, Law and Philosophy, European Law Journal;European Public Law, Comparative European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Politique Europeenne,South European Society and Politics, or Revista de Estudios Políticos, Revista Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administraciòn, Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto in Spanish. His main research interests are Comparative Regional Integration (Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa) with special attention to constitutional and institutional aspects; and politics of memory and transitional justice.
Phone: +34916022482
Address: Calle Albasanz 26-28
28037 Madrid
Spain
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The European Union seems to have rescued its single currency, but it has not yet put an end to the crisis. In this major new book, a group of fifteen international philosophers, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and legal experts compare the economic, political, constitutional, social, and cultural interpretations of the European crisis. They describe the challenges the EU faces in relation to legitimacy and democracy and address head-on the uncertainty over the future of Europe.The book considers different possible scenarios—from the Union's dissolution, with or without the continuation of the integration process, to its reinforcement through the building of a political union addressing the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and justice. Such a strengthened union could mark a new stage for democracy—not the democracy of ancient cities and modern states, but one convenient to the complex entities, neither national nor supra-national, of which the European Union, despite the crisis, is still the best modern example.
Existing research and academic debate on EU constitutional politics have almost exclusively focussed on negotiation of new treaties and their institutional setting. However, this book explains how the result of ratification was achieved, and analyses the strategy that actors pursue across Europe. Ratification of the Treaty of Maastricht and the EU Constitution failed totally, whilst other ratification can be considered partial failures such as the Irish Nice and Lisbon referendums. As the EU Constitution has proved, the ratification process may have deep effects unforeseen during the processes of negotiation. In recent years, ratification has produced some of the most intense debates on national membership of the EU and the EU itself.