Department of Political Science Staff

Dr. William Phelan

Contact Details

Room Room 4.02 Floor 4
Department of Political Science
Trinity College
2-3 College Green
Dublin, Ireland

tel: +353 -1-8963596
fax: +353-1-6770546
email: phelanw@tcd.ie
web: http://wtphelan.googlepages.com/home

Current Appointment   

    * Lecturer in Political Science

Research and Teaching Interests

• International Relations Theory
• International Organisation
• International Political Economy
• The Politics of European Law
• The European Union
• The World Trade Organisation and NAFTA
• European Political Development

Degree            

    * PhD (Harvard University, 2006)

Previous Appointments and Distinctions

Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, VT 2005-2007

Selected Publications

• Does the European Union Strengthen the State? Democracy, Executive
  Power and International Cooperation. Harvard University Center for
  European Studies Working Paper Series No. 95. 2002. Cambridge, MA. http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/publications/docs/pdfs/Phelan95.pdf

I am particularly interested in supervising dissertations in the following areas:

• History and Theory of European Integration, including the politics of European Community law as a 'constitution', EU decision-making, and EU enlargement to Eastern Europe.
  
• International law and Organisation, including the WTO and NAFTA
• Theories of International Relations: Realism, Liberalism (State-Society approaches), Constructivism, and Public Goods approaches to IR. 
• European Political Development
  

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