International Academic Board

Lucian M. Ashworth

Lucian M. Ashworth is a professor in political science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s Canada where he is the Head of the Department of Political Science. His research interests include the history of international thought, especially interwar International Relations (IR) theory, early geopolitics, and the origins of feminist IR. He has published widely on the topics of international thought and the disciplinary history of IR, being the author of A History of International Thought. From the Origins of the Modern State to Academic International Relations (London: Routledge, 2014) and of Creating International Studies. Angell, Mitrany and the Liberal Tradition (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999) as well as the editor (with David Long) of New Perspectives on International Functionalism (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999).

Cornelia Navari

She graduated in modern history from Columbia University, received her M.Sc. Econ (International Relations) from the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. She worked for the United States Information Agency before going to the LSE. Following her M.Sc.,she spent five years at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. She was one of the original members of the British International Political Theory group, being associated with the ‘English School of International Relations’. Her experience includes being the chair and program director of the English School section of the International Studies Association. Her abiding interest is the effect of political ideas on International Relations. This is reflected in a series of essays on 20th century internationalist thought, including ‘David Mitrany and International Functionalism’ in Thinkers of the Twenty Years Crisis ed. P. Wilson and D. Long (1995). She is the editor of Theorising International Society (2009), and the author of Internationalism and the State in the Twentieth Century (2000) and of Public Intellectuals and International Affairs (2013).

Jens Steffek

Jens Steffek is a Professor of Transnational Governance and the Managing Director of the Institute for Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He was also Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and History and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” hosted by Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main. Steffek studied political science, sociology and geography at the University of Munich and completed his doctoral dissertation at the European University Institute in Florence. He was a visiting professor at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, the University of Montréal and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). His research interests include international organizations (both public and private), the history of international thought and international political theory. Among his publications are Embedded Liberalism and Its Critics: Justifying Global Governance in the American Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; and The Cosmopolitanism of David Mitrany: Equality, Devolution, and Functional Democracy beyond the State, International Relations 29(1), 2015.

Gerhard Michael Ambrosi

Gerhard Michael Ambrosi is Professor of European Economic Policy, Trier University (Germany). He studied Economics in Berlin at the Free University and at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He worked at the cabinet of Commissioner Altiero Spinelli, Commission of the European Community, Brussels, before joining University of Trier where he was Director, Zentrum für Europäische Studien, Academic Director of the Europen Documentation Center at Trier University, and Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. Lecturer on European Integration at Stanford University and HumboldtUniversität, Berlin. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies (LIEIS). Doctor honoris causa of the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 2006. He is the author of Keynes, Pigou and Cambridge Keynesians: Authenticity and Analytical Perspective in the Keynes-Classics Debate, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 and of Keynes and Mitrany as instigators of European Governance, Millenium 12/13, 2005.