Dr Eamonn Butler
- Senior Lecturer (Central & East European Studies)
telephone: 01413304094
email: Eamonn.Butler@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Eamonn joined the University in September 2006 and is a Lecturer in Central and East European Studies. He oversaw the establishment of the University’s Security Studies programmes, including the MSC Global Security and new Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree International Masters in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (in conjunction with the Charles University Prague and Dublin City University). His research interests focus primarily on Central Europe and the European Union. His recent work examines energy relations in the Central and East European region and he has published on energy sector relations between corporations, the EU and its member states.
Research interests
- EU Enlargement and Post-Enlargement Studies
- Central Europe: History and Contemporary Politics
- Energy
- Global Security
- EU institutions
- EU policy making
Grants
Assessing Accession: Central and Eastern Europe in the EU, UACES Collaborative Research Network (£4860), 2009-2011
'Strategies of Energy Actors in Hungary: Actors, Structures and Instituitions in a Liberalising Energy Market', Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (£2200), 2010-2011
Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree: Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies, Euroepan Union (€3.04million) 2016-2021
Visit Scotland, Council for European Studies 24th Annual Conference Grant (£30,000), 2016-2017
Glasgow City Council, Council for European Studies 24th Annual Conference Grant (£30,000), 2016-2017
Supervision
Eamonn is available for supervision on topics relating to:
- Central European Politics and History
- European Union
- Energy Politics
- International Organisations
- Nationalism and Identity
Current and completed supervision topics include:
- Eleanor Bindman - Economic and Social Rights in EU-Russia relations (completed 2013)
- Robert Dewar - Cyber security and the European Union: An institutionalist response to a 21st century security concern (completed 2017)
- Jolan Nisbet - New Member States Engagement: lessons from recasting the Common European Asylum System
- Graham Donnelly - EU Minority Rights and Eastern Partnership
- Ruth McKenna - Imagining Russia in British political, media and popular discources post-1999: the impact upon Russian speaking migrant integration in the UK
- David Edwards - Can Estonia use the Experience of 20th Century Finland as a template for its Public Diplomacy? A Comparative Study of Public Diplomacy in Contemporary Estonia with post-independence Finland
- Darren Reid - US-Russian Cold War Esponiage in United Nations
- Paolo Sorbello - State and Business Responses to Energy Industry Worker Unrest in Western Kazakhstan
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
-
Perspectives on Security in Central and Eastern Europe (1945-1989)
- Security and International Relations in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe
- Social Science and Humanities Research Methods in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe: Theory and Practice
- Contribute to: Central and East European Studies Level 2B
Postgraduate Teaching
- Geopolitics of Central Europe
- Thematic Issues in Global Security
- European and International Security Strategies
- Issues in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
- Research Methods for Studying Russia and Central and Eastern Europe
- Research Design and Methodology for Security Studies
Additional information
Other Roles in School of Social and Political Sciences
- Programme Director: International Masters in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (Erasmus Mundus)
- Member of Senate
Editorial Roles
- Editorial Board: Europe-Asia Studies 2009-present
- Political Science Editor: EuropeNow (Council for European Studies) 2017-present
- Senior Editor: Journal of Contemporary European Research (UACES) 2007-2009
Memberships
- University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
- Council for European Studies (CES)
- British International Studies Association (BISA)
- Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy
- Leverhulme Russian Environmental History Network
Conference Organisation
Chair of the Glasgow Local Organising Committee: 2017 Council for European Studies 24th International Conference of Europeanists - Sustainability and Transformation.
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