Ian Manners
Ian Manners is a professor and the Assistant Head at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. With over thirty years of experience, Manners has dedicated his academic career to exploring questions of policymaking and international relations within the European Union. His publication, “Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?” (2002) is regarded as one of the most influential texts within European Studies and boasts the statistic of highest cited article in the Journal of Common Market Studies. His current research focuses primarily on normative power in the EU in terms of economy, ecology, society, conflict, and polity. Manners also leads research projects such as “Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics,” “Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis,” “Foreign Policies of European Union Member States,” and “Planetary Political Cinema.”