Research focus within MERCURY
Within MERCURY, Geoffrey Edwards focuses on conceptual approaches to EU foreign policy and to multilateralism, the institutional architecture of EU external relations, and the role of the EU in multilateral fora.

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Dr Edwards is Reader in European Studies and Jean Monnet chair in Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge where he is also a Graduate Tutor. After a short period in the FCO he worked in a number of thinktanks before taking up teaching. His primary research and teaching interests are Europe’s institutional evolution, and EU foreign, security and defence policies

E-Mail: gre1000(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

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Research focus within MERCURY
Design features of EU institutions in particular as compared to other international institutions/organizations.

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Dr. Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni has taught international politics at the University of Cambridge since 2002. She is also a fellow of Sidney Sussex College.

E-Mail: mer29(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

Website: http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/    Personal Profile

Research focus within MERCURY
Legal approaches to EU foreign policy and to multilateralism, the role of international law for the EU, and the role of the EU in international law.

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Dr Gehring is Lecturer in European and International Law in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow in Law of Robinson College, Cambridge where he is also a Tutor. After a short period in Clear Gottlieb LLP, he taught International Law at the University of Oxford. His primary research and teaching interests are Sustainable Development and economic law, International constitutional law, EU External relations and Europe’s constitutional development.

E-Mail: mwg24(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

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Research focus within MERCURY
Within MERCURY, Christopher Hill focuses on conceptual approaches to EU foreign policy and to multilateralism as well as on the EU’s role in international governmental organizations (IGOs).

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Christopher Hill is Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Centre of International Studies, within the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge. From 1974-2004 he taught in the Department of International Relations at the London School School of Economics and Political Science, where he was the Montague Burton Professor from 1991.  

He has published widely in the areas of foreign policy analysis and general international relations, his most recent books being The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy (Palgrave, 2003), and The European Union in International Relations (edited with Michael Smith, 2005). He is a past Chair of the British International Studies Association, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.

E-Mail: cjh68(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

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Research focus within MERCURY
Within MERCURY, Elena Lazarou focuses on conceptual approaches to multilateralism as well as on the external relations of the EU. She is also involved in administrative activities.

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Elena Lazarou completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2008. She has been a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield since 2007 and has held Visiting Positions at Columbia University (2005); Carleton University (2006) and at the LSE (2008). Her main research interests are the external relations of the European Union, theories of European integration and European migration policy. As of July 2009 she is also Research Associate for MERCURY.

E-Mail: el237(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

Website:  http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk