University of Copenhagen

Faculty Member, Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor, PhD

Thesis Title: The Diplomacy of Opting Out: British and Danish Stigma Management in the European Union

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Rebecca Adler-Nissen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on diplomacy, differentiated integration, national opt-outs and the transformation of sovereignty in the European Union. She also works on international political sociology and theories of European law and politics. She is editor of "Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking Key Concepts in IR" (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of "Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalizing State Sovereigny in Europe and beyond" (Palgrave, 2008). Other recent publications include “Opting Out of an Ever Closer Union: The Integration Doxa and the Managment of Sovereignty" (West European Politics, 2011), "Late Sovereign Diplomacy” (The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 2009), “The Diplomacy of Opting Out: A Bourdieudian Approach to National Integration Strategies” (Journal of Common Market Studies, 2008) and “Behind the Scenes of Differentiated Integration” (Journal of European Public Policy, 2009). She was awarded the Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen for her co-authored treatise on democratic theory, hermeneutics and the EU’s Constitutional Treaty.

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