Jeannette Mak

Jeannette Mak (1970) graduated in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and took a Masters in European Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Her Ph.D. thesis (European University Institute, Florence) dealt with the role of the European Commission and national governments in achieving public acceptance of the euro, and explored whether the way these authorities communicate ‘Europe’ has changed since the lack of legitimacy of the European Union became apparent in the early 1990s.

Between 2001 and 2004, she participated as a post-doc researcher in an EU funded research on Europeanisation: ‘The Transformation of Political Mobilisation and Communication in European Public Spheres’.

From January 2005 till July 2008 she functioned as coordinator of the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies. In that capacity she was responsible for strengthening the curriculum and stimulating multidisciplinary research on conflict and conflict transformation at the University of Amsterdam.

Her current research interests include: Europeanisation, informal governance, conflict resolution and governance.