Otto Holman

Otto Holman (1956) studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, where he also obtained his PhD (1993).

He is senior lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science, and, since 1990, Jean Monnet senior lecturer in European Integration Studies; in 1994/95 he was temporary staff member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague.

His main fields are the political economy of European Integration, Mediterranean studies and Spanish politics. Recent research includes the transnational dimension of regime transformation in Central and Eastern Europe and the enlargement of the European Union. His publications include Integrating Southern Europe (London, Routledge, 1996) and Political and Economic Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: the International Dimension (The Hague, WRR, 1995, in Dutch). He edited a special issue of the International Journal of Political Economy on European Unification in the 1990s (1992), a book on European Dilemmas at the End of the Twentieth Century (Amsterdam, Het Spinhuis, 1997, in Dutch), and two special issues of the International Journal of Political Economy on Neo-liberal Hegemony and the Political Economy of European Restructuring (1998, co-edited with Henk Overbeek and Magnus Ryner). Otto Holman is co-editor of the RIPE series in Global Political Economy (Routledge, together with Marianne Marchand and Henk Overbeek).