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Professor Kevin Featherstone

Professor Kevin Featherstone

Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Fellow in the Hellenic Observatory Centre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

European Institute

Telephone
+44 (0)20 7955 6027
Room No
CBG.5.04
Office Hours
By email
Languages
English, French, Greek
Key Expertise
Political Science, Political Economy, European Union, Greece

About me

Kevin Featherstone is Emeritus Professor (European Institute) and Professorial Research Fellow in the Hellenic Observatory at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. He was Director of the Hellenic Observatory from 2002 to 2024.  He has held visiting positions at the University of Minnesota; New York University; Harvard University; and, the European University Institute (Firenze). Before ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, he held academic posts at the universities of Stirling and Bradford. He has received a number of honours: including,  'Grand Commander, Order of the Phoenix' of the Hellenic Republic (2021); honorary doctorate, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2022); and Honorary Greek citizenship (2023).  He was the first foreign member of the National Council for Research and Technology (ESET) in Greece, serving from 2010-2013.  He served on an ad hoc committee for the reorganisation of the Greek government in 2010-11.  He has written extensively on modern Greek politics, and on the European Union.  In 2014, the European Parliament selected one of his books (‘The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union’, co-authored with Kenneth Dyson) as one of its ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember’. He has contributed regularly to Greek and international media on European and Greek politics.

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Research interests

Kevin Featherstone's research falls within comparative politics, public policy, and political economy. His focus has been on the European Union and on contemporary Greece: both separately and in combination. He has been especially interested in the creation of Economic and Monetary Union and euro-zone governance; the politics of Europeanization; institutions and reform capacity in Greece; core executive politics in Greece; and, latterly, the discursive politics of euroscepticism in different national contexts.

Expertise Details

Political Science; Political Economy; European Union; Greece

Recent Press Listings

Professor Kevin Featherstone gave about EU Crisis Management, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (17 March 2025)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote the OpEd   , Kathimerini, (24 February 2025) 

Kevin Featherstone wrote the article ΚΩΣΤΑΣ ΣΗΜΙΤΗΣ 1936-2025, , Kathimerini (12 January 2025)

Kevin Featherstone wrote the OpEd , Kathimerini (1 December 2024)

Professor Kevin Featherstone gave on the forthcoming UK elections at the Spanish state broadcaster, TVE. (watch from 14.49 onwards)

Kevin Featherstone wrote the OpEd , Kathimerini (28 May 2024)

Kevin Featherstone was interviewed about the upcoming British elections , Kathimerini (24 May 2024)

Kevin Featherstone has been quoted in the article  by Adam Rasmi, Time, (25 April 2024)

Kevin Featherstone wrote the article , Kathimerini (26 February 2024) 

Kevin Featherstone wrote the article '', Kathimerini (15 January 2024) 

Kevin Featherstone wrote the OpED '', Kathimerini (3 December 2023) 

Kevin Featherstone wrote the OpEd '', Kathimerini (5 November 2023)

Kevin Featherstone wrote the article '', Kathimerini (25 September 2023)

Kevin Featherstone commented on the recent British Museum debacle in the article '', Kathimerini (4 September 2023)

Kevin Featherstone gave an interview on the recent Greek elections, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the government and SYRIZA's defeat to Dimitris Doulgeridis for the newspaper Ta Nea:  (9 July 2023)

Kevin Featherstone commented on the Greek elections in the article , RTVE ( 25 June 2023)

Kevin Featherstone commented on the Greek elections in the article ‘', the Guardian (24 June 2023)

Kevin Featherstone commented on the Greek elections in the article , Kathimerini (21 May 2023)

Kevin Featherstone gave an interview on BREXIT to the Dutch Newspaper 'Reformatorisch Dagblad' (4 April 2023).

Kevin Featherstone gave the interview '' to Antonis Fourlis, Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Greece. (18 March 2023) 

Kevin Featherstone wrote the article "Χρειάζεται ισχυρό Μαξίμου", Kathimerini (15 January 2023)

Kevin Featherstone shared his toughts on former King Constantinos and his role in the Greek history in '', Kathimerini Newspaper (14 January 2023)

2022

Kevin Featherstone shared his thoughts about Greece ahead of 2023 along with another eleven distinguished British Philhellenes, leading personalities from the fields of letters, arts, politics and journalism at  .(30 December 2022) 

Kevin Featherstone gave an interview to the reporter George Kouvaras for the  (aired on 6 December 2022, ERT 1) and focused on the Observatory, populism, Greece's institutional weaknesses and economy and Britain’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. You can watch the interview  (after 00:21:00).

Kevin Featherstone has taken part in a new interview with Ta Nea, published on 5 November 2022. The interview is titled 'Προσβολή για τον Ελληνα είναι να υπονοήσεις ότι είναι πολιτικά αφελής', and can be found in Greek .

Kevin Featherstone writes in the  reflecting on the question of the decline of the western world. “Do we really live through the decline of the West?  Can the Western world stand up to the challenges of internal corruption, inadequate leaderships, military provocations by authoritarian regimes? Is the West really declining? Or is the world of liberal democracies more resilient than it seems?”.

The Boris story: Ending like it started. Professor Kevin Featherstone has written an article published in eKathimerini, discussing the resignation of Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister. You can read it in both and online. (15 July 2022)

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics, edited by Professors Kevin Featherstone and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos was reviewed by Markos Karasarinis, deputy editor of the Books section, 'To Vima' newspaper. You can read the review here and . (30 April 2021) This review was re-published at in.gr and you can read it . (8 May 2021)

2020

Professor Kevin Featherstone gave an interview to George Fintikakis for liberal.gr on Turkey’s aggression and EU's response. The interview is titled , liberal.gr (21 October 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote the article '', Kathimerini Newspaper and was re-published in Newspaper Ahval (26 August 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote an article '', Kathimerini Newspaper (23 August 2020) 

Professor Kevin Featherstone gave an interview to Liberal on Turkey’s aggression towards Greece and Cyprus and the need of EU's concerted action to curb Erdoğan’s excesses. The intervie is titled  '', Liberal (19 August 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone was mentioned in the article , Kathimerini (18 August 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone was mentioned in the article , The Independent (29 April 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone was mentioned in the article , The New York Times (28 April 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote an article , Kathimerini (29 March 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote an article , Kathimerini (9 February 2020)

Professor Kevin Featherstone's and Professor Dimitri Papadimitriou's book  is reviewed in the article  by Eleftheria Kollia, Protagon.gr (11 January 2020)

2019

Professor Kevin Featherstone gave an interview to , (10 December 2019)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote an article , Kathimerini (1 September 2019)

Professor Kevin Featherstone gave an interview , Fortune Greece Magazine ( 3 June 2019) 

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote an article , Kathimerini (26 May 2019) 

Professor Kevin Featherstone was mentioned in the article , by Pieternel Gruppen, Throw (18 May 2019)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote an article , liberal.gr (21 March 2019)

Professor Kevin Featherstonegave an interview  - , Athens News Agency - Macedonian News Agency (23 February 2019)

Professor Kevin Featherstone wrote an article , Kathimerini (20 January 2019)

For all press articles and interviews given by Professor Kevin Featherstone visit HO in the News.

Selected Publications

Featherstone, Kevin and Alogoskoufis, George, eds (2021) , Hellenic Observatory, July 2021


Featherstone, Kevin and Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A., eds. (2020) ,  Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.


Featherstone, Kevin and Papadimitriou, Dimitris, (2019)  (), Diametros. 


Featherstone, K. and Papadimitriou, Dimitris  (2017) Greece: a crisis in two level governance. In: Dinan, Desmond, Nugent, Neill and Paterson, William E., (eds.) The European Union in Crisis. The European Union series. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 233-252. 


Featherstone, K. & Papadimitriou, D., (2015) , Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.


Featherstone, K.,(2014) , C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, London, UK.


Featherstone, Kevin, Papadimitriou, Dimitris, Mamarelis, Argyris and Niarchos, Greorgios (2011) . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. 


Featherstone, Kevin and Papadimitriou, Dimitris (2008) Palgrave studies in European Union politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.


Featherstone, Kevin, ed. (2005) Politics and policy in Greece: the challenge of modernisation. Routledge, London. Also translated in Greek , Okto Publishing, Athens, Greece. 


Featherstone, Kevin and Radaelli, Claudio M., eds. (2003)  Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.


Featherstone, Kevin and Kazamias, George, eds. (2001) . Frank Cass, London, UK.


Featherstone, Kevin and Dyson, Kenneth (1999) . Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.


Featherstone, Kevin and Ginsberg, Roy H. (1996) The United States and the European Union in the 1990s: partners in transition. Macmillan Press Ltd, London, UK. 


Featherstone, Kevin and Ifantis Kostas, eds. (1996) Greece in a Changing Europe: Between European Integration and Balkan Disintegration.  Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK.


Featherstone, Kevin (1988) Socialist parties and European integration: a comparative history. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. 


Featherstone, Kevin and Katsoudas, Dimitrios K., eds. (1987) Political change in Greece: before and after the colonels. Croom Helm, London, UK.


 

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