RC03 - European Unification

Job description: You contribute to teaching and research in the field of European Studies. Teaching duties include courses in the BA and MA programmes in European Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. While your teaching activities will take 70% of your time, research will be 30% of your employment time. The research time can be extended through external fundraising.

Requirements: The candidate has a PhD degree in Political Science or European Studies. The candidate should be capable of triggering student learning and participation in group discussions. (S)he is an inspiring and stimulating supervisor. As the language of instruction is English, your command of English (oral and writing) should be excellent. Previous experience in working with innovative, interdisciplinary learning approaches and problem-based teaching methods are highly welcomed. Experience with teaching international classrooms would be preferable. All members of staff are expected to share our emphasis on high quality teaching, reflected in our system of small-scale problem based learning. Your research experience and publications demonstrate your expertise in the field of European public policy analysis. Expertise in the field of political economy or European monetary policies is an asset. You have published internationally and in peer-reviewed journals, or are willing to develop in this direction. You have evidence of or potential for international excellence in published research.

Starting date: Preferably by 1 January 2015

The deadline for submitting your application is 23 November 2014

Please send your application electronically to the Secretariat of the Faculty Office: Pzfdcwvacatures@maastrichtuniversity.nl Any inquiries about the position may be addressed to Prof. Sophie Vanhoonacker, Head of Politics Department (+31 43 388 32 42; s.vanhoonacker@maastrichtuniversity.nl)

Fixed term lectureship in EU politics at University of Leicester

We have a vacancy at the University of Leicester for a five-month lectureship with teaching mainly, although not exclusively, focused on European Union politics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. More details can be found on the University of Leicester's website here: http://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_UniversityOfLeicester01.asp?newms=jj&id=89284&aid=14178

and there is a link via jobs.ac.uk here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJS184/lecturer-in-politics-fixed-term/.

The lectureship begins on 26 January 2015 and the closing date for applications is 23 October 2014.

Any informal inquiries should be addressed to Rick Whitaker: richard.whitaker@leicester.ac.uk.

Global Constitutionalism 3(3) out now

You can access the current issue via the following link:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=GCN&tab=currentissue

Job Vacancy: PhD Position in EU Research Project, University of Salzburg

Deadline: 8 October 2014

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News - International Political Science Review (IPSR) - Volume 35, Number 4, September 2014

In this issue:

Numerical and policy representation on the international stage: Women foreign policy leaders in Western industrialised systems Sylvia Bashevkin

The dynamics of within-regime stability: Party tenure and economic performance Steven Hall and Misa Nishikawa

Decentralisation and political participation: An empirical analysis in Western and Eastern Europe Nicholas Spina

A cross-national analysis of the guarantees of rights Udi Sommer and Victor Asal

Bringing the military back in: The politicisation of the military and its effect on democratic consolidation Rollin F. Tusalem http://www.ipsa.org/publications/ipsr/volume-35-number-4-september-2014

Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships, European University Institute

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) offers one-year Jean Monnet Fellowships (renewable for one more year) to scholars who have obtained their doctorate more than 5 years prior to the start of the fellowship, i.e. 1 September 2015 for the academic year 2015/16. The Fellowship programme is open to post-docs, tenure track academics and those wishing to spend their sabbatical at the Robert Schuman Centre. We invite you to become part of a lively and creative academic community. The Centre offers up to 20 Fellowships a year.

The annual deadline for applications is 25 October .

http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Fellowships/JeanMonnetFellowships/Index.aspx

'Constitutional Change Through Euro-Crisis Law' Project

New Project Website: http://eurocrisislaw.eui.eu/

The project, run by the EUI Law Department and funded by the EUI Research Council (2013-2015), aims to analyze the constitutional implications of Euro-crisis law in the legal system of the 28 Member States. The website collects national reports based on a standard questionnaire and on a wider range of sources, including minutes of parliamentary debates, national laws ratifying and implementing Euro-Crisis law, and case-law of national constitutional or supreme courts, so as to focus on ten main topics:

I. Political context

II. Budgetary Process

III. Changes to Constitutional Law

IV. Early Emergency Funding (including EFSF)

V. 136(3) TFEU

VI. Euro Plus Pact

VII. Six-Pack

VIII. ESM Treaty

IX. Fiscal Compact

X. Financial Support