Biography

Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
Professor Jones is author of The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002), Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (2008), Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012, with Dana H. Allin), and The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014). He is editor or co-editor of books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy including The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015). Professor Jones is co-editor of Government & Opposition and a contributing editor of Survival. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Building capacities for excellent research and innovation in democracy and policy through networking, knowledge and experience transfer
• Crisis of Expert Knowledge and Authority
• Digital observatory of political discourse
• Evaluation of human resources management in the Western Balkans
• Political Economy Working Group

Completed

• Decentering Eurocentrism

Supervisees

• Odysseas Konstantinakos
• Deirdre Moore

Recent research output

• ANGHEL, Veronica; JONES, Erik (2024), What went wrong in Hungary, Article
• ANGHEL, Veronica; JONES, Erik (2024), Three lessons from the 2004 “Big Bang” enlargement, Article
• ANGHEL, Veronica; JONES, Erik (2024), The enlargement of international organizations, Article
• JONES, Erik (2024), Europe’s new regime for macroeconomic policy coordination : a first look, Article
• JONES, Erik (2024), El nuevo régimen europeo de coordinación de las políticas macroeconómicas : una primera mirada, Article
• JONES, Erik (2023), L'Atlantico commune, Article