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JOHN ERIK FOSSUM

PhD/Professor:

ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo

P.O.Box 1143 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway

(Sognsveien 68)

Ph.: +47 2285 8881

Fax: +47 2285 8710

E-mail: j.e.fossum@arena.uio.no

http://www.reconproject.eu/

http://www.arena.uio.no/

Personal Data

Born: May 7, 1956, Stavanger, Norway

Education

1983-90 PhD in Political Science, UBC.

Dissertation title: “Assessing State Intervention: Federal Oil Policies 1973-84.”

Dissertation supervisor: Alan C. Cairns

1982-83 Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of California, Santa

Barbara.

1977-81 Cand.Mag. (BA-equiv.) at the University of Bergen, Norway, majored in

Political Science and History.

Research projects:

2017-present Participating researcher in Erasmus Academic Network on Post-Brexit Europe,

(PELEEA)

2017-present Participating researcher in Erasmus Academic Network on EU-Turkey

Cooperation, (VIADUCT)

2015-2016 ARENA partner coordinator in the EEA-funded project Democratic Governance

and Differentiation in Europe

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2014-2017 Member of the Jean Monnet Network Interparliamentary Cooperation in the EU's

External Action (PACO)

Conference support democracy-program

2013-2017 Co-director of WP 1 on Law and Democracy and coordinating unit (EuroDiv:

Integration and division: Towards a segmented |Europe?) funded by the Norwegian

Research Council, NOK 24 mill.)

2013-17 Participating researcher in Erasmus Academic Network on Parliamentary

Democracy in Europe, (PADEMIA)

2014 Conference support to study the normativity of political parties (NOK 50.000)

from the Democracy Programme at the University of Oslo

Conference support: Fritt Ord

2011-2013 Co-director of the Norwegian Constitution in a Changing European Context

(NORCONE) project. This was part of the research effort initiated by the

Norwegian Storting in connection with the bicentennial of the Norwegian

Constitution, with the funds granted through the Norwegian Research Council

(NOK 5 mill.)

2011-13 Jean Monnet Action, Lifelong Learning Programme, ECSA Norway Annual

Conferences (EU contribution € 24636,15).

2011 Book publishing support (NOK 50.000) from the Democracy Programme at the

University of Oslo

2010-2014 Member of the Steering Committee of the ESF-funded research networking

programme “Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada” (RECODE)

2009-2010 Member of the European Commission funded (7th framework program) EuroPolis -

A deliberative polity-making project

2007-2011 Co-architect behind (with E.O. Eriksen), substitute project coordinator, and co-

chair of two work-packages of the 5-year long ARENA-led and EU Commission

funded (€ 5 million + NOK 10 mill.) research project “Reconstituting Democracy

in Europe” (RECON), which had 20 partner universities across Europe

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2007-2011 Co-chair of Workpackage II in the 5-year-long Norwegian Research Council

funded project “The transformation and sustainability of European political order"

(total 5-year project funding NOK 24 million)2002-2005 Co-architect behind

(with E.O. Eriksen), substitute project coordinator and head of two of the work-

packages of the 3-year long ARENA-led and EU Commission funded (€ 1.6

million) research project “Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy” (CIDEL)

2004-2008 CONNEX (Connecting Excellence on European Governance), funded by the EU

Commission

2006 Rector’s office, University of Bergen: Research support to cover Norwegian

participation in ESF-project on the European Social Constituency (NOK 210.000)

2006 Norwegian Research Council: Conference support (NOK 100.000 for conference

on law and democracy, at the University of Bergen)

2006-8 Leader of the research group on European integration at the Department of

Administration and Organisation Theory, University of Bergen

2005-2006 Meltzer-fondet, UiB (NOK 160.000 per year in project support to promote

European research at the University of Bergen)

2001 Norwegian Research Council: Conference support (NOK 90.000 to organise 2

conferences on aboriginals and Sami)

2000-5 Norwegian participant (with Øyvind Østerud) in a 4-nation Canadian-funded

(SSHRC: CAD 1.8 million) major collaborative initiative (MCRI) entitled

“Globalism and its Challengers”

Publications

Co-editor (with Erik Eriksen) of the Routledge series on Democratizing Europe

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Books

2018 Fossum, J.E. and H. P. Graver, Squaring the Circle on Brexit – Could the

Norway Model Work? Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Fossum, J.E., R. Kastoryano, and B. Siim (eds.), Diversity and Contestations

over Nationalism in Europe and Canada, Palgrave.

2017 Fossum, J.E. and M. Jachtenfuchs (eds.) Federal challenges and challenges to

federalism. Insights from the EU and federal states, London: Routledge. Book

version of JEPP Special Issue.

2015 Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The European Union’s Non-members:

Independence Under Hegemony?, London: Routledge.

2014 Eriksen, E. O. og J.E. Fossum (red.) Det norske paradoks - Om Norges forhold

til Den europeiske union, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The Arctic Contested, Peter Lang.

2013 Crum, B. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) Practices of Inter-Parliamentary Coordination

in International Politics – The European Union and Beyond, Essex: ECPR

Press.

2012 Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum (eds.) Rethinking Democracy and the European

Union, London: Routledge.

2011 Agustín José Menéndez and John Erik Fossum (eds.) Law and Democracy in

Neil D. MacCormick’s Legal and Political Theory. The Post-Sovereign

Constellation, Dordrecht: Springer Law.

Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez The Constitution’s Gift – A Constitutional

Theory for a Democratic European Union, Boulder, Co.: Rowman and

Littlefield. Also available in Italian. See

http://www.fupress.com/scheda.asp?idv=2299

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2009 Fossum, J.E., Poirier, J. and P. Magnette (eds.) The Ties that bind – Managing

Diversity in the EU and Canada, Peter Lang.

2007 Fossum, J. E. and P. R. Schlesinger (eds.) The European Union and the Public

Sphere: A communicative space in the making? London: Routledge, (fourth

volume in Routledge series)

2004 Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.) Developing a

Constitution for Europe, London: Routledge (first volume in Routledge series)

2003 Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.) En förfatning för

Europa, Göteborg: Daidalos

Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.) The Chartering of

Europe: The Charter of Fundamental Rights and its Constitutional

Implications, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden.

2000 Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum (eds.) (2000): Democracy in the European

Union - Integration through Deliberation?, London: Routledge, 310p.

1997 Fossum, J.E. Oil, the State, and Federalism: The Rise and Demise of Petro-

Canada as a Statist Impulse University of Toronto Press, August 1997.

Nominated by the University of Toronto Press for the Smiley Prize for best

book in a field relating to the study of government and politics in Canada, and

the American Political Science Association’s Luebbert Book Award for best

book in the field of comparative politics.

1990 Fossum, J.E. “Assessing State Intervention: Federal Oil Policies 1973-84. PhD

dissertation, UBC, Vancouver, Canada

Articles (in peer-reviewed journals)

a) Editor of special journal issues/symposia

2017 Brunkhorst, H., Eigmuller, M. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) “European

Transformations: Are the Crises Really Over or is it Just the End of their

Beginning?” European Law Journal Special Issue: How to get out of the

European trap? Vol. 23, Issue 5, September 2017, 310-314.

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Fossum, J.E. and M. Jachtenfuchs (eds.) “Federal challenges and challenges to

federalism. Insights from the EU and federal states”, Journal of European

Public Policy, 24,4: 467-485.

2011 Fossum, J.E. and S. Roussel (eds.) “The Arctic is Hot, Part II”, ”, International

Journal, Vol. LXVI, Autumn 2011.

2010 Fossum, J.E. and S. Roussel (eds.) “The Arctic is Hot, Part I”, ”, International

Journal, Vol. LXV, No.4, Autumn 2010.

2008 Fossum, J.E. and H. Sjursen (eds.) “Norge og EU”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 4,

2008:311-2.

2006 Fossum, J.E. (guest editor) “Is there a gidsland? Mentor states in world

politics”, International Journal, Vol. LXI, No.4, Autumn 2006.

2005 Closa, C. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) “'Deliberative Constitutional Politics”,

Symposium Issue of European Law Journal, Vol.11, No. 4, July 2005:379.

b) Articles

2017 Fossum, J.E. “European federalism: Pitfalls and possibilities”, European Law

Journal, 23(5): 361-379.

Fossum, J.E. “Democratic federalization and the interconnectedness – consent

conundrum”, Journal of European Public Policy, 24(4):486-498.

2016 Fossum, J.E. “Norwegian Reflections on Brexit”, Political Quarterly, 87(3):

343-347.

2015 Fossum, J.E. “Democracy and differentiation in Europe”, Journal of European

Public Policy, 22 (6): 799–815.

Fossum, J.E. “Review of Jeremy Webber’s The Constitution of Canada. A

Contextual Analysis”, No Foundations – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law

and Justice, 12:154-161. Available at:

http://www.helsinki.fi/nofo/NoFo12Fossum.html

2014 Fossum, J.E. “Sykkelteorien, EU og Norge”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, No. 3, pp.

391-394.

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2013 Fossum, J.E. “Demokratiets kår og forutsetninger i Europa”, Norsk

Statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift, No 4, pp. 327-346

2012 Fossum, J.E. “Reflections on Experimentalist Governance”, Regulation and

Governance, 6(3):394-400.

Eriksen, E. O and J.E. Fossum "Representation through deliberation – The

European case", Constellations, vol. 19(2):325-339.

2011 Eriksen, E. O and J.E. Fossum “Bringing European democracy back in – or how

to read the German Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling’, European Law

Journal, Vol. 17 (2):153-171.

Fossum, J.E. “Review Essay: A Cosmopolitan Constellation?”, European

Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 14(2):235-248.

2010 Fossum, J.E. “Norway’s European ‘gag rules’,” European Review, Vol. 18, No.

1, 73-92.

2009 Crum, B. and J.E. Fossum “The Multilevel Parliamentary Field -A Framework

for Theorising Representative Democracy in the EU”, European Political

Science Review, 1:2, 249–271.

Fossum, J.E. “Europe’s American Dream”, European Journal of Social Theory,

12(4):483-504.

Fossum, J.E. og C. Holst, ”Norske intellektuelles syn på EU”, Internasjonal

Politikk, 67,3:441-52.

2008 Fossum, J.E. and D. Haglund “Is there a Norway in Quebec’s Future? 1905 and

All That”, Quebec Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 167-189

2007 Fossum, J.E. “On democratizing European Constitution Making: Possible

lessons from Canada’s experience”, Supreme Court Law Review, 37:343-381.

Also available in Mitchell, G., Peach, I., Smith, D. and J.D. Whyte (eds.) A

Living Tree – The Legacy of 1982 in Canada’s Political Evolution, Markham,

Ontario: LexisNexis, pp.707-745.

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2006 Fossum, J. E. “Introduction”, Gidsland Issue of International Journal Vol. LXI,

No.4, Autumn 2006: 783-91.

Fossum, J.E. “Gidsland and human security - Cosmopolitan vehicles?”,

International Journal, Vol. LXI, No.4, Autumn 2006:813-828.

Fossum, J.E. “Conceptualizing the European Union Through Four Strategies of

Comparison”, Comparative European Politics, 4:94-123.

Fossum, J.E. and H.J. Trenz “The EU's fledgling society: From deafening

silence to critical voice in European constitution making”, Journal of Civil

Society, Vol. 2, No. 1, 57–77.

Fossum, J.E. and H.J. Trenz “When the people come in: Constitution-making

and the belated politicisation of the European Union”, European Governance

Papers 2006(3):1.16.

2005 Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez “Democratic constitution-making –

Reflections on the European Experiment”, Austrian Journal of Political

Science, Vol. 2005/3: 249-62.

Fossum, J.E. “Conceptualising the EU’s Social Constituency”, European

Journal of Social Theory, vol. 8, no. 2, 2005:123-147.

Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez ” The Constitution’s Gift? A Deliberative

Democratic Analysis of Constitution Making in the European Union”,

European Law Journal, Vol.11, No. 4, July 2005:380-410.

2004 Eriksen, E.O. and J.E. Fossum “Europe in Search of Legitimacy: Strategies of

Legitimation Assessed”, International Political Science Review, October, 2004,

Vol 25, No. 4:435–459.

2003 Fossum, J.E. “The European Union – In Search of an Identity”, European

Journal of Political Theory, Volume 2, No.3, 2003:319-340.

2002 Eriksen, E.O. and J.E. Fossum “Democracy through strong publics in the EU?”,

Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 40, Number 3, pp.401-23.

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2001 Fossum, J.E. “Identity-politics in the European Union”, Journal of European

Integration, Vol.23, 2001, pp.373-406.

Fossum, J.E. “Deep Diversity versus Constitutional Patriotism: Taylor,

Habermas and the Canadian Constitutional Crisis”, Ethnicities, Vol. 1, No.2,

August 2001, pp.179-206.

1999 Fossum, J. E. and P. S. Robinson, "A Phoenix Arises: The Social

Reconstruction of Europe," Policy, Organisation and Society (Australia) 17

Summer 1999, pp.1-22.

1994 Fossum, J.E. Nasjonalisme, Føderalisme og Konstitusjonalisme: Tre Sentrale

Metaforer i Kanadisk Politikk", Internasjonal Politikk, nr.3 September 1994,

pp.363-90.

Book Chapters: (incomplete)

Fossum, J.E., “Political Parties and Conflict Handling”, in D. Castiglione and J.

Pollak (eds.) Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Democratic

Representation, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

Fossum, J.E., “Off Field? The EU’s Parliamentary Dimension Post-crisis”, in D.

Innerarity (ed.) A New Narrative for a New Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman and

Littlefield, forthcoming.

Fossum, J.E. and G. Rosen, “Off or On Field?”, in Parliamentary Cooperation

and Diplomacy in EU External Relations, Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

Eriksen, E.O. and J.E. Fossum, “Deliberation constrained: an increasingly

segmented European Union”, in A. Baechtiger, J. Dryzek, J. Mansbridge and M.

Warren (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, forthcoming.

2018 Fossum, J.E., “Looking Across the Atlantic - The European Union and Canada

Compared”, in C. Dunn (ed.) Handbook on Canadian Public Administration,

OUP, 501-513.

Fossum, J.E., “Brexit and the EU’s affiliated non-members”, in P. Diamond, P.

Nedergaard & B. Rosamond (eds.) Handbook on Brexit, Routledge, 278-289.

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2017 Fossum, J.E., “Democracy and Legitimacy in the EU. Challenges and Options”,

in Vai, L., Tortola, P.D., and N. Pirozzi (eds.) Governing Europe - How to

Make the EU More Efficient and Democratic, Brussels: Peter Lang.

2016 Fossum, J.E., “The EU and Democracy”, in Patterson, D. and A. Södersten

(eds.) The Companion to European Union Law and International Law,

Hoboken: Blackwell, pp.

2015 Fossum, J.E. “Reflections on the Role of Subnational Parliaments in the

European Multilevel Parliamentary Field”, in Abels, G. and A. Eppler (eds.)

Subnational Parliaments in the EU Multi-Level Parliamentary System: Taking

Stock of the Post-Lisbon Era, Studienverlag.

Fossum, J.E. “The Crisis and the Question of De-parliamentarization in

Europe”, in H.J. Trenz, C. Ruzza and V. Guiraudon (eds.) Europe’s Prolonged

Crisis – The Making or the Unmaking of a Political Union, Houndmills:

Palgrave, pp. 44-62.

Fossum, J.E. and J. Pollak “Which Democratic Principles for the European

Union? What Deficit?”, in Piattoni, S. (ed.) The European Union - Democratic

Principles and Institutional Architectures in Times of Crisis, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, pp. 29-45.

Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum, “Introduction: Asymmetry and the problem of

dominance”, in Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The European Union’s

Non-members: Independence Under Hegemony?, London: Routledge, pp.1-14

Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum “Hegemony by association”, in Eriksen, E. O.

and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The European Union’s Non-members: Independence

Under Hegemony?, London: Routledge, pp. 230-242.

Fossum, J.E. “Representation under hegemony? On Norway’s relationship to

the EU”, in Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The European Union’s Non-

members: Independence Under Hegemony?, London: Routledge, pp.153-172.

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2014 Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum “Introduction. Contesting the Arctic”, in

Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The Arctic Contested, Peter Lang, pp.11-

35.

Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum “Contesting the Arctic. Territory and Politics”, in

Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The Arctic Contested, Peter Lang, pp. 39-

47.

Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum “Living in the Arctic. Indigenous Perspectives

and Issues”, in Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The Arctic Contested, Peter

Lang, pp. 151-165.

Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum “Experiencing the Arctic. Representations and

Responses”, in Battarbee, K. and J.E. Fossum (eds.) The Arctic Contested, Peter

Lang, pp. 263-266.

Eriksen, E. O. og J.E. Fossum “Demokratisk konstitusjonalisme i en europeisert

kontekst”, i Eriksen, E. O. og J.E. Fossum (red.) Det norske paradoks - Om

Norges forhold til Den europeiske union, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, s. 11-22.

Eriksen, E. O. og J.E. Fossum “Innlemmelse uten medbestemmelse”, i Eriksen,

E. O. og J.E. Fossum (red.) Det norske paradoks - Om Norges forhold til Den

europeiske union, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, s. 220-233.

Fossum, J.E. “Europeisk flernivådemokrati og status for Norge”, i Baldersheim

og Østerud (red.), Det norske demokratiet i det 21. Århundre, Fagbokforlaget.

Fossum, J.E. “The structure of EU representation and the crisis”, in Kröger, S.

(ed) Political Representation in the European Union – Still democratic in times

of crisis?, London: Routledge, 52-68.

Fossum, J.E. “Surrogatrepresentasjon”, i Eriksen, E. O. og J.E. Fossum (red.)

Det norske paradoks - Om Norges forhold til Den europeiske union, Oslo:

Universitetsforlaget, s. 113-133.

Fossum, J. E. og C. Holst “Norsk konstitusjonell debatt og europeisk

integrasjon”, i Eriksen, E. O. og J.E. Fossum (red.) Det norske paradoks - Om

Norges forhold til Den europeiske union, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, s. 196-219.

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Fossum, J.E. and Menéndez, A.J., “Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism: Pie-in-the-

sky or Path to the Future?”, in Flügel-Martinsen, O.; Gaus, D.; Hitzel-

Cassagnes, T. and F. Martinsen (eds.) Deliberative Kritik – Kritik der

Deliberation – Festschrift für Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Wiesbaden: Springer, pp.

323-351.

2013 Fossum, J.E. and D. Laycock, “Democratic Governance and the Challenge of

Executive Dominance in International and National Settings”, in Böss, M., J.

Møller and S-E Skaaning (eds.) Developing Democracies – Democracy,

Democratization and Development, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 176-190.

2012 Fossum, J.E. and M. Eldholm, “Conceptualising (and tentatively mapping) the

EU’s social constituency” in Karolewski, I.P. and V. Kainaa (eds.) Civic

Resources and the Future of the European Union, London: Routledge, 146-95.

Crum, B. and J.E. Fossum, “A Democratic Backbone for International

Organisations: The Multilevel Parliamentary Field”, in Evas, T., Liebert, U. and

C. Lord, Multilayered Representation in the European Union: Parliaments,

Courts and the Public Sphere, Baden-Baden: NOMOS, 91-105.

Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum, “Introduction: reconfiguring European

democracy”, in Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum, (eds.) Rethinking Democracy

and the European Union, London: Routledge, pp.1-13.

Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum, “Europe’s Challenge: reconstituting Europe or

reconfiguring democracy”, in Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum, (eds.) Rethinking

Democracy and the European Union, London: Routledge, pp.14-38.

Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum, “Conclusion”, in Eriksen, E. O. and J. E.

Fossum, (eds.) Rethinking Democracy and the European Union, London:

Routledge, pp.201-7.

Fossum, J.E. “Cosmopolitanisation in the EU and beyond”, in Eriksen, E. O.

and J. E. Fossum, (eds.) Rethinking Democracy and the European Union,

London: Routledge, pp.179-200.

Fossum, J.E. and Crum, B. “The EU polity and its pattern of representation: the

multilevel parliamentary field”, in Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum, (eds.)

Rethinking Democracy and the European Union, London: Routledge, pp. 74-92.

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Fossum, J.E. and Menéndez, A.J., “Democracy and constitution making in the

European Union”, in Eriksen, E. O. and J. E. Fossum, (eds.) Rethinking

Democracy and the European Union, London: Routledge, pp.57-73.

Fossum, J.E. “Europeisk transformasjon – utfordring for nasjonale selvbilder?”,

i Trond Solhaug, Kjetil Børhaug, Ola Svein Stugu, Ove Kr. Haugaløkken (red.)

Skolen, nasjonen og medborgaren, Trondheim: Tapir, pp.111-125.

2011 Fossum, J.E. “Nationalism, Patriotism and Diversity – Conceptualising the

National Dimension in Neil MacCormick’s Post-sovereign Constellation”, in

Agustín José Menéndez and John Erik Fossum (eds.) Law and Democracy in

Neil D. MacCormick’s Legal and Political Theory. The Post-Sovereign

Constellation, Dordrecht: Springer Law, 261-286.

2010 Fossum, J.E. and C. Holst “Progressive Nationalism? Norwegian Intellectuals

and Europe”, in Justine Lacroix and Kalypso Nicolaides (eds.) European Stories

- Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts , Oxford: Oxford

University Press, pp. 277-293.

Fossum, J.E. “The Future of the European Order”, in Birkinshaw, P. and M.

Varney (eds) The European Union Legal Order after Lisbon, The Netherlands:

Kluwer Law, 33-56.

2009 Fossum, J.E. “Citizenship, democracy and public sphere”, in Rumford, C. (ed.)

The SAGE Handbook of European Studies, London: SAGE, 347-64.

2008 Fossum, J.E. “Constitutional patriotism: Canada and the European Union” in

Mouritsen, P. and K. E. Jørgensen (eds.) Constituting Communities - Political

Solutions to Cultural Difference, London: Palgrave, 138-161.

Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum “A done deal? The EU's legitimacy conundrum

revisited”. In Eriksen, E.O., Joerges, C. and F. Roedl (eds) Law, Democracy and

Solidarity in a Post-national Union: The unsettled political order of Europe.

Routledge, pp. 230-248.

2006 Fossum, J. E. “The Struggle for Recognition – Conceptual Framework” in

Lithman, Y. and H. Sicakkan (eds.) Envisioning Togetherness. Politics of

Identity and Modes of Belonging, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 175-215.

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2005 Fossum, J.E. “The Balance of Power Theory”, in Larsen, S.U. (ed.) Theory and

Methods in Political Science, Boulder: Columbia University Press, pp.184-204.

Fossum, J.E. “Obsessed with federalism?”, in Thomsen, R. & N. Hale (eds.)

Canadian Environments, Peter Lang, pp. 173-94.

Fossum, J.E. “Contemporary European Constitution-making – Reflexive or

constrained?”, in Eriksen, E.O. (ed.) Making the European Polity – Reflexive

integration in Europe, London: Routledge, pp. 143-66.

Eriksen, E.O., Fossum, J. E. and H. Sjursen, ”Widening or reconstituting the

EU?”, in Eriksen, E.O. (ed.) Making the European Polity – Reflexive

integration in Europe, London: Routledge, pp. 237-52.

2004 Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez “Introduction: a constitution

in the making?” in Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.)

Developing a Constitution for Europe, London: Routledge, pp.1-15.

Fossum, J. E. “Still a Union of deep diversity? The Convention and the

Constitution for Europe”, in Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez

(eds.) Developing a Constitution for Europe, London: Routledge, pp.226-247.

Fossum, J.E. “Charters and Constitution-making - Comparing the Canadian

Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Charter of Fundamental

Rights”, in Resnick, P. and G. Kernerman, Insiders and Outsiders: Alan Cairns

and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship, Vancouver: University of British

Columbia Press, 2004, pp. pp.148-62.

Claes, D.H. and Fossum, J.E. “Norway, the EEA and Neo-liberal globalism”, in

Clarksen, S. and Cohen, M. Governing Under Stress, London: Zed Books, pp.

51-69.

McBride, S. and Fossum, J.E. “The Rule of Rules: International Agreements

and the Semi-Periphery”, in Clarksen, S. and Cohen, M., Governing Under

Stress, London: Zed Books, pp. 239-59.

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Eriksen, E.O. and Fossum, J.E. “Europe at a Crossroads - Government or

Transnational Governance?” in Joerges, C., Sand, I. and Teubner, G. (eds.)

Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism, London: Hart, 2004, pp. 115-

146.

Fossum, J.E. “Why Compare Canada and the European Union - and how?”, in

Crowley, P. (ed.) Crossing the Atlantic: Comparing the European Union and

Canada, London: Ashgate, pp.11-33.

2003 Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez ”The Charter of Fundamental

Rights in Context” in Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.)

The Chartering of Europe: The Charter of Fundamental Rights and its

Constitutional Implications, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden; pp:17-

29.

Fossum, J. E. “The European Charter – Between Deep Diversity and

Constitutional Patriotism“ in Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez

(eds.) The Chartering of Europe: The Charter of Fundamental Rights and its

Constitutional Implications, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden; pp.228-

255.

Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez „Inledning“, i Eriksen, E. O.,

Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.) En förfatning för Europa, Göteborg:

Daidalos, pp.7-17.

Fossum, J.E. „Konstitusjonsbyggande och demokratisk legitimitet i Europeiska

unionen“, i Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.) En

förfatning för Europa, Göteborg: Daidalos, pp.173-197.

Fossum, J. E. “Maktbalanse-prinsippet. Stabilitet og makt i internasjonale

relasjoner”, i Ugelvik Larsen, S. (red.) Teori og metode i statsvitenskap,

Fagbokforlaget, ss.148-64.

1999 Fossum, J. E. “Citizenship, Diversity and Pluralism: The Case of the European

Union”, in Cairns, A.C., Courtney, J.C., MacKinnon, P., Michelmann, H., and

D.E. Smith (eds.): Citizenship, Diversity and Pluralism: Canadian and

Comparative Perspectives, McGill-Queen’s Press, pp.202-30.

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1998 Fossum, J.E. "Executive Influence in the EU and Canada - A Brief Comparative

Assessment", in Easingwood, P., Gross, K. and H. Lutz: Informal Empire?

Cultural Relations Between Canada, The United States and Europe, published

in Schriftenreihe des Zentrums fur Kanada Studien an der Universitat Trier, I&f

Verlag, Kiel, Germany, pp.339-70.

1997 Fossum, J. E. “Maktbalanse-prinsippet”, Lov og Struktur, 64, Universitetet i

Bergen: 1997, pp.1-23.

Reports (incomplete)

2014 Fossum, J.E and A. J. Menéndez (ed.): “"The European Union in crises or the

European Union as crises?", ARENA Report 14/02. Available at:

http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-

publications/reports/2014/report-2-14.pdf

2012 Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds): "A Multitude of Constitutions?

European Constitutional Pluralism in Question", ARENA Report 12/04.

Available at:

http://www.reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/Report20_MultitudeConsti

tutions.html

2008 Menéndez, A. J. and J. E. Fossum (eds): “The Post-Sovereign Constellation:

Law and Democracy in Neil D. MacCormick’s Legal and Political Theory”,

ARENA Report 08/4.

2007 Fossum, J.E., P. R. Schlesinger and G. Kværk (eds.) “Public Sphere and Civil

Society?”, ARENA-CIDEL Report 2/07.

2005 Fossum, J.E. (ed.) “Constitutional Processes in Canada and the EU Compared”,

ARENA Report 8/2005.

Eriksen, E.O., Fossum, J.E., Kumm, M. and A. J. Menéndez ”The European

Constitution: The Rubicon Crossed?”, ARENA Report No 3/2005.

2004 Closa, Carlos and John Erik Fossum (eds) "Deliberative Constitutional Politics

in the EU", ARENA Report No 5/2004.

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2002 Gudsteins, Gudrun and John Erik Fossum (eds.) Rediscovering Canada:

Culture and Politics, Vol. 19, NACS Text Series/University of Iceland Press. I

have written the chapter entitled “Identity Politics in Canada”.

Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. Menendez (eds.) “Constitution Making and

Democratic Legitimacy”, ARENA Report No5/2002. We as editors have written

the introduction, and I have written Chapter 10 “Charters and Constitution-

Making. Comparing the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the

European Charter of Fundamental Rights”.

2001 Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez (eds.) ”The Chartering of

Europe – The Charter of Fundamental Rights in Context”, ARENA Report 01/8.

Contributions in reports: (highly incomplete)

2002 Fossum, J.E. “Why Compare Canada and the European Union”, in Thomsen,

R.C. and E. Lauridsen Canada Bound – Essays in Honour of Jørn Carlsen on

the Occasion of his Retirement, Vol. 18 NACS Text Series, Århus: Faculty of

Arts Press, pp.83-114.

Fossum, J.E. “Norge og EU – et problematisk tema i samfunnsfagene?”, HIL

Rapport, 9p.

2001 Fossum, J.E. “The Challenge of Federalisation in the EU", in Knutsen, P. og N.

Veggeland (red): Føderalisering, nasjonalstat, historiografi. Arbeidsnotat no.

126/2001, Høgskolen i Lillehammer, 7-36.

Working papers/conference papers published in conference proceedings

(highly incomplete):

2005 Fossum, J.E. and H.J. Trenz (2005) ”The EU’s fledgling society: From

deafening silence to critical voice in European constitution making”, ARENA

Working Paper 19/2005

Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez “Democratic constitution-making –

Reflections on the European Experiment”, ARENA Working Paper 18/2005

Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez” The Constitution’s Gift? A Deliberative

Democratic Analysis of Constitution Making in the European Union”, ARENA

Working Paper 13/2005

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Fossum, J.E. “Contemporary European constitution-making: constrained or

reflexive?”, ARENA Working Paper 4/2005

2004 Fossum, J.E. (2004) ”Conceptualising the EU’s Social Constituency”, ARENA

Working Paper 16/04.

Fossum, J.E. (2004) “De-configuring the European Union – A Comparative

Approach”, ARENA Working Paper 14/04.

Fossum, J.E. and A.J. Menéndez ”The Constitution’s Gift: From Treaty to

Constitution”, Departamento de Estudios Europeos, Instituto Universitario de

Investigacion, Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, Working Paper 1/04.

2003 Fossum, J.E. "The European Charter - Between Deep Diversity and

Constitutional Patriotism”, ARENA Working Paper 05/03.

2002 Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum: "Europe in Search of its

Legitimacy - Assessing Strategies of Legitimation", ARENA Working Paper

38/02.

Eriksen, E.O., Fossum, J.E. and Sjursen, H. “Widening or reconstituting the

EU?”, ARENA Report.

Fossum, J. E. “The transformation of the nation-state: Why compare the EU and

Canada?”, ARENA Working Paper 28/2002.

Eriksen, E.O. and Fossum, J.E. “Europe at a Crossroads - Government or

Transnational Governance?”, ARENA Working Paper 35/02.

Claes, D.H. and Fossum, J.E. “Norway, the EEA and Neo-liberal globalism”,

ARENA Working Paper, ARENA Working Paper 29/02.

Fossum, J.E. “Charters and Constitution-making - Comparing the Canadian

Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the European Charter of Fundamental

Rights”, ARENA Working Paper 08/2002.

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2001 Fossum, J.E. “Identity-politics in the European Union”, ARENA Working Paper

17/2001.

Eriksen, E.O. and J.E. Fossum “Democracy Through Strong Publics in the

European Union?, ARENA Working Paper 16/2001.

2000 Eriksen, E. O. and J.E. Fossum, “The EU and post-national integration.

Legitimation through deliberation”. ARENA Working Paper 00/26.

1997 Blichner, L. and J.E. Fossum, “Modern Constitution Making”, published in the

Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Political Science

Association, St. John’s Newfoundland, June 1997.

Fossum, J.E. “Canada and the European Union: Parallel or Converging

Debates?”, Working Paper published by the McGill Institute for the Study of

Canada, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 1997.

http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/misc/

1996 Fossum, J.E. “Executive Influence and Constitutional Change in the European

Union and Canada”, ARENA Working Paper, 1996

Fossum, J.E. “Group-differentiated Citizenship - A Brief Evaluation”, LOS-

senter Notat 9642

1994 Fossum, J.E. "Federalism and Subsidiarity in the European Union", published in

the Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Political Science

Association, Calgary, Alberta, June 1994.

1992 Fossum, J.E. "The Privatization of Petro-Canada". Published in the Proceedings of

the 1992 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association,

Charlottetown, PEI, June 1992.

1991 Fossum, J.E. "National Oil Companies in Canada and Norway: The Contribution of

Statist Theory to a Comparative Analysis". Published in the Proceedings of the

1991 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Kingston,

Ontario, June 1991.

1989 "Policy Change and Political Change: A Study of the Evolution of Land

Management Regimes in the Canada Lands, 1980-86". Published in the

Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Political Science

Association in June 1989.

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Book Reviews and Notes (incomplete)

2004 Eriksen, E. O., Fossum, J.E. and A. J. Menéndez ”Crossing the political

Rubicon”, The Federalist Debate, Year XVII, No.2, 2004.

2003 Fossum, John Erik "On the Search for a European Identity", The International

Spectator 38(1) 2003, Book reviews and Notes, 117-20.

Invitations to present papers and give lectures (highly incomplete)

University of Leuwen, 2017

Tatra Summit hosted by the Slovak EU Presidency: Shaping the Future of

Europe. Participated in a plenary debate in SESSION 9: HOW TO REBUILD

THE TRUST OF EU CITIZENS?

54th International Congress of the European Journalists Association, Trento, Italy,

September 2016

Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, June 2016

Centre for Federal Studies, School of Politics and International Relations,

University of Kent, with the support of the James Madison Charitable Trust, April

2016

Royal Society of Edinburgh, 16 February 2016

IAI, Italy, Governing Europe seminar, Torino, 2015

University of Oxford, 2015

Harvard University (Ash Centre), Workshop on representation, 2015

Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 20 August 2015

Nils Klim samtalen i Bergen (under Holberg-prisen), 2015

Visiting Professor at ACCESS Europe, A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

located in Amsterdam, for the month of May 2015

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Icelandic Institute of International Affairs, 2015

University of Flensburg, Fachschaft European Studies, 2014

Foster Europe, Eisenstadt, Austria, 2014

Eidsvoll – innlegg på direktesendt Grunnlovsmaraton: 1814 PÅ 24 TIMER,

10.05.2014

European Parliament hearing on a new convention in connection with treaty

change, april 9, 2014

University of Copenhagen, EURECO, 2012

University of Victoria, Canada 2010, 2011

Darmstadt University 2011

Freie University, Berlin 2011

Central European University 2011

University of Alicante (2011)

University of Michigan (US, 2008)

Queens’ University, Belfast

European University Institute (Italy) (on a number of occasions)

Vreie Universiteit Amsterdam

Annual General Meeting of the German Association for Canadian Studies

(Germany, 2006 and 2007)

Carleton University (Canada, 2006)

CONNEX midterm conference 2005 (Germany)

University of British Columbia (Canada, 2001)

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University of Marburg (Germany)

University of Montreal (Canada)

University of McGill (Canada)

University of Saskatoon (Canada)

University of Barcelona (Spain)

University of Lisbon (Portugal)

University of Vilnius (Lithuania)

Århus University (Denmark)

University of Umeå (Sweden)

Lund University (Sweden)

Tromsø University (Norway)

Norwegian Foreign Ministry

Norwegian Parliament

Kommunenes Sentralforbund

Academic associations:

2014 Member of the working group responsible for planning UiO’s participation in

the Constitutional 200th Anniversary

2008- Chair of ECSA Norway (Norsk Forum for Europa-forskning)

2004- Member of the board of the European Union Studies Association, Canada

2005- Vice-president of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies

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1999-2002 President of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies and Chair of the

Norwegian Chapter

1999-2002 Nordic Political Science Association, (NOPSA) Board Member and Deputy Chair

1996- Chair of the Norwegian Chapter and Board Member of the Nordic Association for

Canadian Studies (NACS)

Editorial/Publishing boards:

2004-8 Member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Political Science

2004 - Chair of CONNEX (Connecting Excellence on European Governance) Editorial

board

2002 - Peter Lang Series on Canadian Studies

2002-4 Policy and Society Journal

Book/journal article reviewing:

2000- Consultant for Oxford University Press and Routledge on books and book projects;

Article referee for: American Political Science Review, Comparative Political

Studies, Constellations, Contemporary Political Theory, European Journal of

International Relations, European Journal of Political Research, European

Journal of Political Theory, European Societies, Journal of Common Market

Studies, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy,

Journal of Legislative Studies, Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, Perspectives on

Politics, Political Studies, Sosiologi i Dag.

Research evaluation:

2018 ERC

2004- Expert evaluator on European Commission research grants and networks of

excellence under FP6 (Framework Six Programme).

2001- Consultant for the Norwegian Research Council

Awards/Fellowships (incomplete)

2006 Social Science Faculty Research Grant, University of Bergen

Canadian Studies: Faculty Research Grant

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1997 Seagram International Fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

1996-98 ARENA Research Grant to study European integration

1996 Canadian Studies: Faculty Research Grant

1995 University Research Grant

1994 Canadian Studies: Faculty Research Grant

1992-93 NAVF Research Grant

1992 Nansen Foundation Fellowship

1991 Canadian Studies: Faculty Research Grant

1984-87 Government of Canada Award for Foreign Nationals

1986 University Graduate Fellowship, UBC.

1984-85 I.W. Killam Predoctoral Fellowship for Academic Excellence.

1983 Rotary Foundation, Graduate Fellowship.

1982 California Exchange Scholarship.

Fulbright Travel Grant.

Educational administration:

1992- 1995 In charge of planning and developing a Master of Philosophy in Public

Administration Programme and acted as academic co-ordinator for the new MPA-

programme in the Department of Administration and Organisation Theory

1995 Assistance in the development of an MA-programme in Political Science at Kaunas

University, Lithuania

1992-94 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Advisor, Department of Administration and

Organisation Theory

1991-94 Board Member, Department of Administration and Organization Theory

1990- Guest lecturer and external examiner at various Norwegian institutions and in

Lithuania

Teaching Experience (incomplete)

2004- Professor, Department of Administration and Organisation Theory, University of

Bergen. Co-organised one doctoral course in 2005 and one in 2007; taught an MA-

course in European integration over several years; taught an introductory course on

political theory in 2006; and supervised MAs and one PhD.

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1992-2004 Associate Professor, Department of Administration and Organisation Theory,

University of Bergen. Taught courses at undergraduate and graduate level on

Norwegian and Western European (including the European Union) politics, policy

and public administration. Also taught graduate courses in political theory and

organisation theory..

Supervised 2 PhDs, 30+ ‘hovedfag’ and M. Phil. theses (comprehensive research

theses which required 1.0-3 years’ work) and 10 MA theses (1 year’s work).

Served as external examiner at Norwegian universities, at both graduate and

undergraduate levels, and at Norwegian polytechnics. Also served as graduate

thesis reader at the University of Sydney, Australia and PhD thesis examiner,

Århus University.

2014-16 Taught an MA-course in Luzern Switzerland

2013 Taught a PhD-course in Bratislava

2000 Taught a graduate Summer School course on European Integration at the

University of Sydney, Australia.

1995 Guest lecturer on Scandinavian Politics in Kaunas, Lithuania.

1990-92 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Administration and Organisation Theory, University

of Bergen

1989 Assistant Professor, Sogndal Polytechnic, Norway

1988-89 Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant at UBC. Fall 1988: Teaching

Assistant in Methodology. Spring 1989: Teaching Assistant in Comparative

Politics.

1985 Substitute Teacher, Junior High School, Norway.

1983 Norwegian Army. Course for Logistics Officers

Substitute Teacher, Norway.

1982 Teaching Assistant, University of Bergen.

1980-81 Offshore North Sea Oil Rig Worker.

Research assistant, University of Bergen.

Conference Organisation/Participation (highly incomplete)

2007- Organised and/or participated in most of the workshops and conferences under

the RECON project that I co-direct, including special responsibility for the

midterm and concluding conference and all the activities within WPs 2 and 9.

See: http://reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/Events.html

2010 ECPR Joint Sessions

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2008 Co-organised the conference Canada and Nordic Diversities in Tromsø. See:

http://www.sami.uit.no/nacs/

2006 Joint ASANOR/NACS Annual conference in Oslo. Was co-organiser and gave 2

presentations

Annual general meeting of the Canadian political science community, Toronto,

May 2006. Presented 2 papers (one of them with David Haglund) and was

commentator for two sessions

Budapest, June 2006

IPSA conference, Fukuoka, Japan. Presented 2 papers, one of which was an invited

paper from ECPR. Was commentator for 2 sessions

Nasjonal fagkonferanse (National conference for Norwegian political science) in

Bergen, January 2006. Was co-organiser (with Nina Raaum)

2005 State of the art workshop "A European Public Sphere: How much of it do we have

and how much do we need?" organized by the Network of Excellence CONNEX

and The Amsterdam School of Communications Research ASCoR, December 8-

10. Gave 1 paper (with Hans-Joerg Trenz).

ARENA-CIDEL concluding conference, Oslo November 25. Co-organised the

conference and gave one paper.

The Ties that Bind: Accommodating Complex Diversity in Canada and the

European Union" (Brussels, Belgium 17-19 November 2005). Co-organised the

conference and commented on a paper

CONNEX Mid-term conference, Mannheim, November 3-5. Gave one paper as

part of ‘controversial debate’ with Ulrich Beck

ASANOR/NACS conference in Oslo, October 28-30. Co-organised the conference

and gave 1 paper.

CIDEL concluding conference, Florence September 22-24. Gave 2 papers (with

Menendez and Schlesinger)

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Bergen Workshop, September 2-3. Co-organised the workshop and presented 1

paper (with Schlesinger)

Nordic Association for Canadian Studies triennial conference, Turku, Finland,

August 18-20. Helped organise the conference, organised a special session, and

gave a paper

CIDEL conference in Stockholm. Commented on a paper

Lisbon-conference, June.

Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Political Science conference, University

of Western Ontario, June 1-3. Presented 1 paper

Conference organised by the International Council for Canadian Studies, Ottawa

May 25-28. Presented 1 paper.

Bremen conference, May 20-22. Gave one lecture and participated in project

meeting

Madrid conference, May 13 at the Centre for Constitutional Studies. Presented 1

paper

Spring 2005: organised the seminar series Europeisk Forum at the University of

Bergen

EUSA, Austin, USA, March30-April 3. Presented 1 paper.

German Association for Canadian Studies, Grainau, February 25-28.

2004 “CONNEX kick-off conference”, Mannheim Germany, 9-12.09

Berlin conference organised under the auspices of the European Commission, to

offer advice on the issue of European public sphere (presented a paper and a

research plan, 29.05)

“CIDEL conference on enlargement, Avila, Spain (May 7-8). Presented a paper and

acted as discussant.

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“Popular Sovereignty and Human Rights in Multinational and Polyethnic entities –

The EU and Canada compared”, organised the conference in Oslo and co-organised

the conferences in Århus, Gothenburg and Copenhagen. Presented a paper in Århus

and one in Oslo. Co-editor of the report from the conference.

German Association for Canadian Studies, Grainau, February. Was invited to

present a paper on EU – Canada comparison

CIDEL Workshop on "One Europe - Many Publics?" in Stirling on February 5 - 6,

2004. Co-organised the conference, presented 2 papers and will co-edit the

conference report and the book to be based on the conference proceedings.

2003 ARENA Concluding conference, Oslo, October 2003, presented 2 papers

MCRI Post-globalism Conference, University of Bergen. Co-organised the

conference and presented one paper.

CIDEL Workshop on "Deliberative Constitutional Politics in the EU". On 20 - 21

June 2003, a workshop was organised in Albarracín, Spain. Co-organised the

workshop and presented a paper (with Agustin Menendez). Co-editor of the

forthcoming CIDEL/ARENA/Zaragoza Conference Report

CIDEL Conference on "The Forging of Deliberative Supranationalism in the EU".

On 7-8 February 2003. Presented a paper.

2002 Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA), Ålborg, Denmark. Co-organised a

workshop and presented a paper (with Erik Eriksen)

Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, August 8-10,

Stockholm. In charge of organising the conference. Opened the conference, acted

as chair of several sessions and presented a paper.

Marburg conference, June 28-29 (was invited to present a paper)

ECSA-C, CPSA, May 29-June 1 (presented 2 papers and chaired one session)

UD conference on Canada, April 25. Was invited to give a lecture

ARENA Annual Conference, March 4-5 (chaired second half of first day and

presented one paper)

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Post-globalism research programme conference in Mexico City. Presented 2 papers.

General Meeting of the German Association for Canadian Studies, Grainau

2001 Multilevel Constitutionalism – Transatlantic Perspectives

Comparative Federalism – Conference at the Faculdade de Direito,

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, December 7-8. Presented a paper.

Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance – Workshop at the EUI,

presented paper (with E.O. Eriksen), November 30-December 1.

Samfunnsfagene i det nye Europa – Høyskolen i Lillehammer. Presented a

paper.

Citizenship - self-government – self-determination: A comparison of Aboriginal

peoples in Canada and Sami in Norway. Organised the NACS-conference, in

co-operation with KRD, the Canadian Embassy, IMER and Makt-utredningen,

Nov. 5, Oslo. Roundtable conference at the Saami Parliament, Karasjok, 08.11.

Organised this event.

Forelesning på Høyskolen i Trondheim – alumni-seminar for MPA-studenter,

19.10.

Rethinking Citizenship in the Canadian Federation: A Conference in Honour of

Alan C. Cairns, Vancouver 11-13 October. Was on the organising committee

and presented a paper.

Workshop on the European Charter of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,

ARENA, Oslo, June 8-9. Acted as co-organiser of the conference, presented a

paper and chaired the second day of the sessions.

AFEC’s 25th Anniversary conference, Sorbonne III, Paris. Acted as Chair of one

session.

Demokrati i EU og effekter på Norge, Europeisk Ungdom, Oslo, 4.04.

Geilo, Norway. Student conference on the EU. Gave two presentations

Conference on the EU, Lillehammer Regional College, presented a paper.

2000 ARENA, Annual Conference. Acted as chair on second half of conference.

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“Atlantic Canada”, NACS annual conference. Co-organised (with NACS board

members) one-day conferences in Denmark, Norway (a series of lectures in

Sweden), and Lithuania, November.

LOS, Bergen – co-organised a conference on democracy in the European Union

APSA, Washington D.C. – Presented paper (with Lars Blichner)

Post-globalism research programme conference in Vancouver, August. Presented

own research.

ISSEI 2000, Bergen. Organised panel, acted as chair and gave a paper (with Erik

Eriksen)

IPSA, Quebec City. Presented a paper (with Erik Eriksen)

ECSA, Quebec City. Presented a paper.

“Multiculturalism – What can Norway Learn from Canada’s Experience?”

Organised 2 one-day seminars in Oslo and Bergen and co-organised a one-day

seminar in Copenhagen, in March 2000.

1999 ARENA Annual Conference, November 18.

IMER – Politics of Identity & Forms of Belonging, National Doctoral Course –

gave one paper presentation, November 1-5.

Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA), August. Presented one paper.

Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, Triannual Conference, Reykjavik

Iceland, 5-8 August. Presented one paper, chaired several sessions and gave closing

speech.

General Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University

of Sherbrooke, Quebec, June. Presented one paper, acted as discussant on one

session and chaired two sessions.

Norwegian Applied Political Science Association, May. Presented one paper.

Identity – a multidisciplinary approach, May 19. Organised the conference (with

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Linda Sangolt) and gave one presentation.

1998 ARENA Annual Conference, Oslo, November (presented two papers)

Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, (NACS) Sweden Conference in Umeå,

November (presented paper and sat on panel)

NACS Norway Conference in Bergen, November (organised the conference)

NACS Denmark Conference in Århus, November (gave a presentation)

Human Rights in Modern Democracies - The Sampol Conference 1998, Bergen,

October (chaired a roundtable discussion with Antje Wiener, Phillippe Schmitter

and Andreas Føllesdal)

Conference on Democracy in Europe, Bergen, February (acted as conference

organizer).

1997 NACS Conference in Oslo, November. Gave a presentation and acted as

conference chair.

NACS Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, November. Participated in a panel debate.

Conference on Citizenship, Diversity and Pluralism: Comparative Perspectives,

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, October 30 - November 1. Invited

to present paper at the conference.

APSA, Washington, DC, with paper at poster session in Comparative Politics.

Canadian Political Science Association General Meeting, St. John s,

Newfoundland, June 8-10. Presented paper (with Lars Blichner, Bergen) and acted

as discussant on one session.

Second Meeting of the European Community Studies Association of Canada, in St.

John’s Newfoundland, June 6-8. Presented paper and acted as discussant on one

session.

“Bridging: Building Physical and Mental Bridges”, Conference held at the

University of Copenhagen, May 12. Gave a revised version of the

presentation entitled “Canada - the First Post-National Nation?”

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“Bridging”: An Introduction to Canada, Conference Held at the University of

Latvia, Riga, May 9-10. Gave a presentation entitled “Canada - the First Post-

National Nation?”

Doktorgradskonferanse, Geilo, January. Presented paper and acted as discussant.

1996 “The European Graduate Students Seminar on Canada”, September 1996. Gave the

closing address and acted as panel chair.

“Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation”, the Fifth Triennial

Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, Århus University,

Denmark, 15-18 August, 1996. Presented paper and acted as panel chair.

General Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Brock

University, June.

European Community Studies Association of Canada, May. Presented paper.

The Viking Connection: Interdisciplinary Conference on Canada, Greifswald.

Presented paper

1995 Annual ARENA Seminar, Hankø August. Presented paper

NACS: Interdisciplinary Conference on Canada, Bergen, November 6. Organizer.

1994 Trinational Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability in the North

American Region. Whistler, Canada, August 14-21. Acted as discussant at one

session.

General Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Calgary,

Canada, June 12-15. Presented two papers and acted as discussant at two sections.

Conference on European Integration Theory, NUPI, Oslo, April. Presented paper.

1993 General Meeting of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, in Åbo, Finland.

Acted as panel chair and presented a paper.

Conference arranged by the Danish Society for European Studies

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1992 General Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association,

Charlottetown, PEI, June. Presented two papers.

American Political Science Association, Chicago

Wilton Park Conference, Sussex, UK on European Integration

1991 General Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Queen's

University. Presented one paper.

Externally Oriented Activities (highly incomplete – MUST FILL IN FROM

2000)

2000 Lecture on the historical driving forces of the EU, Statskonsult, Oslo.

February: Interviewed by Sonya Procenko from Canadian Press, on Canada and the

EU.

1999 November 19: Interviewed by Bruno Kaufmann, Swiss Broadcasting Company

on the effects of the 1994 Norwegian EU referendum.

1998 “Canada - oppsplitting eller post-nasjonalisme?”, (Canada - fragmentation or post-

nationalism?) Newspaper chronicle in Aftenposten, 16/12.

“Mellom stat og overstat”, (Between state and superstate) newspaper chronicle in

BT, 27/5 1998.

1997 “EU og “Europas Forente Stater” (The EU and the “United States of Europe”),

newspaper chronicle in Bergens Tidende, August 22, 1997.

“EU og statens to ansikter” (The EU and the two Faces of the State), newspaper

chronicle in Bergens Tidende, July 10, 1997.

CBS Radio interview on the European Summit Meeting, Amsterdam, June 16

1997.

“Canada - en umulig nasjon?” (Canada - an impossible nation?), newspaper

chronicle in Bergens Tidende, June 2, 1997.

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1996 “EU-møtet i Dublin: En suksess?” (Was The EU Summit Meeting in Dubin a

Success?), newspaper chronicle in Bergens Tidende, December 1996.

1995 Radio interviews on the national network of the Norwegian National Broadcasting

Corporation (NRK P2 and P1), October 27, 28 and 31 on the Quebec referendum.

"Canadas eksperiment avgjøres i Quebec" (The Canadian Experiment is

Determined in Quebec) newspaper chronicle in Bergens Tidende, October 1995.

1994 "Chretien's First Year in Office", article in SINAS-NEWS, the newsletter for the

Swedish Institute for North-American Studies

Radio interviews on NRK P1 and P2 on the Quebec election results, September

1994

Professional Memberships

The Canadian Political Science Association, CPSA

The European Union Studies Association, EUSA

The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, NACS

The Nordic Political Science Association