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

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

Completed

• Decentering Eurocentrism

Supervisees

• Odysseas Konstantinakos
• Annaliese Milano Merfield
• Laura Pierret
• Rachael Kawasaki
• Vanessa Endrejat

Recent research output

• JONES, Erik (2024), Reconectando el Banco Central Europeo, Article
• JONES, Erik (2024), Rewiring the European Central Bank, Article
• JONES, Erik; UNDERHILL, Geoffrey (2024), Europe after the crises : toward an optimum financial area?, Article
• ANGHEL, Veronica; JONES, Erik (2024), The geopolitics of EU enlargement : from club to commons, Article
• ANGHEL, Veronica; JONES, Erik (2024), The transatlantic relationship and the Russia-Ukraine war, Article
• ARNAL, Judith; MANNAN, Morshed; NOBLE, Elisabeth; SIDHU, Ikhlaq (2024), Blockchain regulation : by rules or enforcement?, Video