Erik Jones
Erik Jones is currently Resident Professor of European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. He received his BA (AB) in politics at Princeton University, and his MA and PhD in international relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS. As an academic, he has worked at the Centre for European Policy Studies, the Central European University, and the University of Nottingham.
Mr. Jones is additionally a contributing editor to the IISS journal Survival and sits on the international advisory board for Acta Politica, as well as the editorial boards for The Journal of European Public Policy, Government and Opposition, and The Journal of European Integration. He also serves on scientific committees for Nomisma and for the Collegio Europeo di Parma, the executive committee for the European Union Studies Association and the steering committee for the Standing Group on the European Union of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). He is a frequent contributor to Oxford Analytica.
His first book on the politics surrounding Europe's economic and monetary union, was titled The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union: Integration and Idiosyncrasy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). This was followed by Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (Oxford University Press, 2008), on the relationship between economic adjustment and political change in Belgium and the Netherlands.
His research interests fall broadly in the field of political economy, which seek to answer questions about how politics influences economics and vice versa.