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Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer

Aarhus Universitet

Department of Culture and Society

Post-doctoral Fellow

Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5 — Room 600
DK-8000 Aarhus C

Tel.: +45 871 62314

E-Mail: jhmeyer@gmx.de

Short CV

Postdoc at the University of Aarhus, Department of History and Area Studies, Research project "When Europe went green", part of "Transnational History" project, funded by the Danish Research Council (2010-12); Marie-Curie-Re-Integration Grant Research project "Transnational Networks in European Environmental Policy – Path Dependent or Learning" (2010-13)
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, University of Portsmouth, Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR) (2008-10) Research project "Protecting the Environment. Transnational Networks in the Emergence of a new EC Policy in the 1970s"
PhD in Modern History, Freie Universität, Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, thesis: "Tracing the European Public Sphere. A Comparative Analysis of British, French and German Quality Newspaper Coverage of European Summits (1969-1991)"
PhD student with the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) and the DFG-Graduate Programme "The New Europe", Humboldt-University/Freie Universität Berlin
Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany, and the European University Institute, Florence
Studied Modern History, Political Science, Sociology and European Studies at Humboldt-University Berlin, Duke University and the London School of Economics

Main Fields of Interest

Europeanisation & Globalisation
History and politics of European integration
European public sphere / European identity / Democracy in the EU
Media and politics
Environmental policy making / Environmental history
Transnational and comparative history

KFG Research Project

"Appropriating the Environment. How European Institutions received the Novel Idea of the Environment and made it their own"

International Conference (Call for Papers):

Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century:

International Organizations, Networks and

Diffusion of Ideas and Policies

organized by Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer

Research College (Kollegforschergruppe, KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe”,

Free University of Berlin

Berlin, 25-27 October 2012

Publications

Monograph

2010. The European Public Sphere. Media and Transnational Communication in European Integration 1969-1991. (Studies on the History of European Integration 10, edited by Jürgen Elvert). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Edited Books/Special Journal Issues

2012. Societal Actors in European Integration. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making, 1958-92, edited by W. Kaiser and J.-H. Meyer. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Series. Houndmills: Palgrave.
2010. Non-State Actors in European Integration in the 1970s, edited by W. Kaiser and J.-H. Meyer. Special issue of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Vol. 20, No. 3.

Journal Articles

2012. L'européanisation de la politique environnementale dans les années 1970, in: Vingtième Siècle. No. 113, 117-126.
2011. Green Activism. The European Parliament's Environmental Committee promoting a European Environmental Policy in the 1970s. In Journal of European Integration History. Vol. 17, No. 1, 73-85.
2010. Greening Europe? Environmental interest groups and the Europeanization of a new policy field. In Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Vol. 20, No. 3, 83-104.

(with Wolfram Kaiser) 2010. Non-state actors in European integration in the 1970s. Towards a Polity of Transnational Contestation. In Comparativ. Vol. 20, No. 3, 7-24.

Working Paper

2011. Appropriating the Environment. How the European Institutions received the Novel Idea of the Environment as a Policy Area and made it their own. KFG-Working Paper Nr. 31 (Download PDF), Research College "The Transformative Power of Europe", Freie Universität Berlin.

Book chapters

forthcoming 2013. Un faux départ? Les acteurs français dans la politique environnementale européenne des années 1970. In: Une protection de l'environnement à la française, XIXe-XXe siècles, edited by Jean-François Mouhot and Charles-François Mathis, Paris: Éditions Champ Vallon.

forthcoming 2012. Challenging the Atomic Community. The Emergence of the European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protest. In: Societal actors in European integration 1958-1992, edited by W. Kaiser and J.-H. Meyer. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

forthcoming 2012. Transnationale Geschichte. Eine Perspektive. In: „Zwischen Europäisierung und Globalisierung – Zum Standort der Geschichtswissenschaften heute“, hg. von Jürgen Elvert, Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner Verlag.
forthcoming 2012. A good European? Hans Edgar Jahn – Anti-Bolshevist, Cold-Warrior, Environmentalist. In: Living Political Biography. Narrating Ideas of Europe, edited by Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen and Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
forthcoming 2012. Getting started: Agenda-setting in European Environmental Policy in the 1970s. In From Crisis to New Dynamics: the European Community 1974-83, edited by J. Laursen. Brussels: Bruylant.
2010. Saving Migrants: a Transnational Network supporting Supranational Bird Protection Policy in the 1970s. In Transnational Networks in Regional Integration. Informal Governance in Europe 1945-83, edited by W. Kaiser, M. Gehler, and B. Leucht. Basingstoke. Palgrave, 176-198.
forthcoming. The European Public Sphere - who's listening? In Thinking about Communication Processes and Stakes, edited by G. Marchand and N. Jardine. Brussels: European Commission, Training and Personnel Development.
2009. Tracing Transnational Communication in the European Public Sphere: the Summit of The Hague 1969. In The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity. 1950-72, edited by W. Kaiser, B. Leucht and M. Rasmussen. London: Routledge, 110-128.
2008. The Fall and Rise of the European Public Sphere. Path Dependent Responses to European Integration. In Dialogo sull'Europa Vol. III, edited by F. Di Sarcina, L. Grazi and L. Scichilone. Florence: Centro editoriale toscano: 327-340.
2007. A European Public Sphere at the Summits of The Hague (1969) and Paris (1974)? Indications on the Basis of British, French and German Newspapers. In Beyond the Customs Union: The European Community's Quest for Completion, Deepening and Enlargement, 1969-1975, edited by J. van der Harst. Bruxelles: Bruylant, 341-357.
2007. Was there a European Public Sphere at the Summit of The Hague 1969? An Analysis of Discourses on the Legitimacy of the EC. In Cultures politiques, opinions publiques et intégration européenne, edited by M.-T. Bitsch, W. Loth and C. Barthel. Bruxelles: Bruylant. 227-245.
2006. (De-)Constructing Legitimacy in the European Public Sphere. German, French and British Newspaper Comments on the "Constitution" Summit 2004. In Europe in its Making edited by S. Marton. Bucharest: Institutul European. 33-53.
2004. Europäische Öffentlichkeit aus historischer Perspektive. In Europäische Öffentlichkeit, edited by U. K. Preuß and C. Franzius. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 209-227.

Online publications

forthcoming 2010. Die Anfänge der EG-Umweltschutzpolitik und zivilgesellschaftliche Mobilisierung. Die Vogelschutzdirektive 1979. In Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, http://www.europa.clio-online.de/
2009. Der Haager Gipfel 1969. Von den Krisen der 1960er Jahre zum europäischen politischen System. In Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, http://www.europa.clio-online.de/2009/Article=364
2008. An Emerging Transnational Network of Communication on European Affairs? The European Public Sphere at EC Summits 1969-1991. Paper presented at the 7th European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon 26th February – 1st March 2008, 29 February 2008. Available here.
2007. Habermas' Dream or Habermas' Nightmare? A Transnational, Participatory European Public Sphere at the Maastricht European Council 1991? In European Voices. Actors and Witnesses of European Integration, Third HEIRS Conference, Geneva 2007, available here.
2007. Does Mediatisation mean more Conflict? The Case of the European Councils 1969-1991. Paper presented at the Fourth ECPR General Conference, Pisa 2007, Panel PN 367 Contesting the Political Space over Europe, available here.
2006. A European Public Sphere at the Summits of The Hague (1969) and Paris (1974)? Common Issues and Frames in British, French and German newspapers. In The Making and Unmaking of the European Union: "Fifty-five Years of Crabwalk?" Second HEIRS Conference, Portsmouth 2005, 37-44, available here.
2006. The 1975 Referendum on Britain's Continued Membership in the EEC. In European Navigator http://www.ena.lu?lang=2&doc=21284.

Review Essays

2009. Europäische Integration und Identität. Review Essay on: Seidendorf, Stefan. 2007. Europäisierung nationaler Identitätsdiskurse? Ein Vergleich französischer und deutscher Printmedien. Baden-Baden: Nomos and Müller-Härlin, Maximilian. 2008. Nation und Europa in Parlamentsdebatten zur Europäischen Integration. Identifikationsmuster in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien nach 1950. Baden-Baden: Nomos. In H-Soz-u-Kult 28.02.2009.
2006. Postwar European integration: Europe recast. Review Essay on: Dinan, Desmond. 2004. Europe recast: a History of European Union. London: Palgrave; Elvert, Jürgen. 2006. Die Europäische Integration. Darmstadt: WBG; Judt, Tony 2005. Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945. New York: Penguin. In Historische Literatur 4 (3): 341-348; H-Soz-u-Kult 22.09.2006.
2006. Reprinted in Jean Monnet Nyheder 28: 30-43, Jean Monnet Centre, University of Aarhus.
2004. Gibt es eine Europäische Öffentlichkeit? Neuere empirische Studien zu Demokratiedefizit, Legitimation und Kontrolle in Europa. In Berliner Journal für Soziologie 14 (1): 135-143.

Book Reviews

2011. Uekötter, Frank 2010. Die Wahrheit ist auf dem Feld. Eine Wissensgeschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. In: H-Soz-u-Kult 30.06.2011.
2011. Kaiser, Alexandra 2010. Von Helden und Opfern. Eine Geschichte des Volkstrauertages. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. In: H-Soz-u-Kult 20.01.2011.
2010. Habermas, Jürgen 2009. Europe. The Faltering Project. Cambridge: Polity Press. In Journal of Contemporary European Studies 18 (1): 126-128.
2009. Black, Jeremy 2009. Europe since the Seventies. London: Reaktion Books. In Journal of Contemporary European Studies 17 (3): 455.
2004. Bessel, Richard and Dirk Schumann, eds. 2003. Life after Death. Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. In Historische Literatur 2 (3): 343-345; H-Soz-u-Kult 14.07.2004.
2003. Klein, Ansgar et al., eds. 2002. Bürgerschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Demokratie in Europa. Opladen. In Berliner Debatte Initial 14 (4/5): 211-213.