JUDY BATT
Education:
Ph.D.
 		(Russian and East European Studies/Political Science)
Title: `Economic Reform and Political Change in Eastern Europe: a Comparison of the Czechoslovak and Hungarian Experiences'
Supervisors: Prof R Amann and Prof P Hanson
External Examiner: Prof P Hare
B.Soc.Sc.
 (Russian Studies with Sociology and Political Science), First Class Honours
Current academic post / related positions:
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Jean Monnet Chair and Senior Research Fellow  EU Institute for Security Studies Paris
- On leave 2003-2006 from: Professor of Central and South-East European Politics Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham UK
Foreign languages:
Russian: to first degree graduation level; Hungarian, Czech and Slovak: very good reading; basic conversation; French: fluent spoken and reading; German: good reading; basic conversation
Romanian: reading knowledge; Serbian: reading knowledge
Current research projects and activities:
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 Research at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris, covers the fields of EU enlargement and CFSP, with particular reference to EU policies towards the Western Balkans, and the development of EU policies in support of state building in the region.
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 Member of the Committee of Advisers on Transfrontier Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Selected recent publications:
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The question of Serbia, Chaillot Paper no.81 (EU-ISS Paris, August 2005)
- Editor, The Western Balkans: moving on, Chaillot Paper no.70 (EU-ISS Paris, 2004)
- The EU’s New Borderlands (Centre for European Reform, London, 2003)
- With D.Lynch, A.Missiroli, M.Ortega and D.Triantaphyllou Partners and neighbours: A CFSP for a Wider Europe, Chaillot Paper no.64 (EU-ISS Paris, 2003)
- Co-edited with S.White and P.Lewis Developments in Central and East European Politics 3 (third edition, Palgrave, London, 2003)
- Co-edited with K.Wolczuk Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe, special issue of the journal Regional and Federal Studies (Frank Cass, London 2002)
- with G.Amato The Long-Term Implications of EU Enlargement: the Nature of the New Border. Final report of the Reflection Group (RSC, European University Institute, Florence/Forward Studies Unit, European Commission, 1999)
- East Central Europe From Reform to Transformation (RIIA/Francis Pinter, London 1991)
Economic Reform and Political Change in Eastern Europe: a Comparison of the Czechoslovak and Hungarian Experiences  (Macmillan, London, 1988)
- ”Fuzzy Statehood” versus Hard Borders: the Impact of EU Enlargement on Romania and Yugoslavia’ in M.Keating et al(eds) Regionalization and Europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe, Presses Interuniversitaires Europeenes/Peter Lang, 2003.
-  ‘Managing the EU’s New External Border’ in A.Arnull and D.Wincott(eds) Accountability and Legitimacy in the EU, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.
- ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Multiethnic Regions on the EU’s New External Frontier’ in East European Politics and Societies, Fall 2001
- ‘European Identity and National Identity in Central and Eastern Europe’ in H.Wallace(ed) Interlocking Dimensions of European Integration, Palgrave, London, 2001