Dr Christine Reh

Lecturer in European Politics

• Name: Dr Christine Reh
• Position: Lecturer in European Politics
• Room: 1-04
• Telephone: 020 7679 4772
• Fax: 020 7679 4969
• Email: c.reh@ucl.ac.uk

Introduction

Christine Reh joined the Department in September 2007 as Lecturer in European Politics and Programme Director of the MSc in European Public Policy. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, an MA in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and an MA in English Literature, Linguistics and Politics from the University of Trier. Christine previously worked as a teaching assistant at the College of Europe, as a research assistant at the Federal Trust in London and as an intern with the Permanent Representation of Germany to the European Union in Brussels.

Christine teaches the following courses: "European Union: Institutions and Politics", "Europeanisation, Globalisation and the Nation State" and "External Relations of the EU".

Christine's research interests include the constitutionalisation of Europe, informal politics in EU decision-making and the theory and practice of international negotiation. She has previously published on Treaty reform and constitutional choice in Europe, and is particularly interested in the conditions under which complex international conferences are effectively prepared. Christine's current research links her interest in informal politics with broader questions of legitimate governance and looks at recent developments in the EU's co-decision procedure in particular. This ESRC-funded research is conducted jointly with Prof. Adrienne Héritier (European University Institute) and investigates why, how and with which consequences legislative decision-making in the European Union is increasingly “fast-tracked” and shifted from public, inclusive to informal, secluded arenas.

Publications and Conference Contributions

Monographs

• Constitutionalizing the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 (with Thomas Christiansen).

Refereed Articles

• "The Informal Politics of Legislation: Explaining Secluded Decision Making in the European Union". In: Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming 2013 (with Adrienne Héritier, Edoardo Bressanelli and Christel Koop). Available OnlineFirst at http://cps.sagepub.com/content/early/recent
• “EU Legitimacy Revisited: The Normative Foundations of a Multilevel Polity”. In: Journal of European Public Policy 19:4 (2012), forthcoming (with Nicole Bolleyer). Available ifirst at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501763.2011.610688
• "The Lisbon Treaty: De-Constitutionalizing the European Union?" In: Journal of Common Market Studies 47:3 (2009), 625-650.
• “The Convention on the Future of Europe and the Development of Integration Theory: A Lasting Imprint”? In: Journal of European Public Policy 15:5 (2008), 781-794.
• “Pre-Cooking the European Constitution? The Role of Government Representatives in EU Reform”. In: Journal of European Public Policy 14:8 (2007), 1186-1207.

Book Chapters

• “Consensus, Compromise and ‘Inclusive Agreement’: Negotiating Supranational Governance”. In: Corneliu Bjola and Markus Kornprobst (eds). Arguing Global Governance: Agency, Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning. London: Routledge, 2010, 177-193.
• “Informal Politics: The Normative Challenge”. In: Thomas Christiansen and Christine Neuhold (eds.). International Handbook of Informal Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012, 65-84.

Recent Conference Contributions

• “Codecision and Its Discontents: Intra-Organisational Politics and Institutional Reform in the European Parliament”. Paper prepared for the EUSA Biannual Meeting, Boston, 3-5 March 2011 (with Adrienne Héritier).
• “European Integration as Compromise: Concessions, Recognition and the Limits of Cooperation”. Paper prepared for the Workshop Meeting in the Middle: The Feasibility and Morality of Compromise in Global Politics, Vienna School of International Studies, 27-28 November 2010.
• "The Informal Politics of Legislation: Explaining Secluded Decision-Making in the European Union". Paper prepared for the APSA Annual Convention, Washington, 2-5 September 2010 (with Adrienne Héritier, Edoardo Bressanelli and Christel Koop).
• “The Politics of Pre-Negotiation: Explaining the Effective Preparation of Complex International Conferences”. Paper prepared for the ISA Annual Convention, New York, 15-18 February 2009.
• “The Informal Politics of Co-Decision: Towards a Normative Assessment”. Paper prepared for the UACES Conference on Exchanging Ideas on Europe, University of Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2008.