Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels holds a Chair ad personam for Political Science and is Director of the Centre for and Studies (CETEUS) at the University of .

He has a Master Degree in Economic and Political Science (1973), a doctorate in political science from the (1979) and he received the Venia legendi in Political Science of the in 1990. Since summer 1994, he is chairholder and since 2011, is honored ad personam of the Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science at the University of Cologne. In 2011 he was awarded for 'Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary European Studies' by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). In 2015 he was awarded with the “Universitätspreis Forschung“ by the University of Cologne for his excellence in research and in 2016 with the “Vision for Europe” award by the Prague European Summit. Prof. Wessels is co-editor of the “Jahrbuch der Europäischen Union” (35th Edition) and the “Europa von A-Z, Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration” (14th Edition) and has published widely in leading journals and edited volumes. He is involved in several research and teaching networks such as FEUTURE, THESEUS, PADEMIA and OPAL. He is the Chairperson of the Executive Board of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP, Berlin) and of the Executive Board of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA, Brussels). Since 2010 he is Vice-President of the German consortium for the foundation of the Turkish-German University, . Since 1981 he is Visiting Professor at the , Brugge and Natolin. His areas of research include the political system of the European Union, the role of the EU in the international system, the deepening and widening of the EU, modes of governance as well as theories and strategies of European integration.

Selected publications:

• Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration, Bonn/ Baden-Baden 1981-2016ff (Ed. with Werner Weidenfeld). • Europa von A - Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration, Bonn/Berlin/Baden-Baden 1991- 2016ff. (14th Ed) (Ed. with Werner Weidenfeld; various translations). • The European Council, Basingstoke 2016. • Das politische System der Europäischen Union, Wiesbaden 2008. • The Constitutional Treaty: Three Readings from a Fusion Perspective, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review 2004/2005, p. 11-36. • An Ever Closer Fusion? A Dynamic Macropolitical View on Integration Processes, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (1997), pp. 267-299.

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