Jean F. Crombois is Associate Professor of EU Politics at the American University in Bulgaria since 2005.
Previous positions: Wiener-Anspach Post-Doctoral Fellow at Balliol College (University of Oxford) from 1999 to 2002, Assistant Professor (Alakhawayn University, Morocco) from 2004 to 2005. visiting professor (Free University of Brussels and New Bulgarian University); visiting Fellow at the Oxford Center for European History (Spring 2010).
Main areas of research include the EU’s Eastern partnership, EU diplomacy and national foreign policy, interest groups and European integration as well as history and theory (ies) of European integration.
Publications: Camille Gutt and Postwar Finance (Routledge, 2016); Contributions on current affairs published in The Contemporary Review (Oxford) and Revue des Deux Mondes (Paris).
Most recent publications: The Eastern Partnership: Geopolitics and Policy Inertia. In: European View 18 (2019), pp. 89-96; Bulgaria’s Foreign Policy and EU Sanctions against Russia. Europeanization, Politicization and Small Country Diplomacy. In: Southeastern Europe 43 (2019), pp.158-185; Lilliput Effect Revisited: Small States and EU Foreign Policy. In: European View 19 (2020), pp. 80-87; Small country and European security. The case of Bulgaria-Russia relations since 2014. In: Geoffrey Edwards & Tomas Weisss (eds.) Small States and Security in Europe. Between National and International Policy Making, Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-16.
Contact:jcrombois@aubg.edu