Gorka Espiau Idoiaga currently serves as political advisor to the Secretary General of the Basque Presidency. Espiau is also a Senior Associate of the Centre for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. In 2005 and 2006, Gorka Espiau was a Senior Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC. Previously he was director and spokesperson for Elkarri, the movement for dialogue in the Basque area, where he served on the Executive Board since 1996. Espiau also served as a logistics operator for nongovernmental organizations in Croatia and Bosnia, where he also worked on assistance programs for Bosnian refugees. He holds a graduate degree in information sciences and journalism from the University of the Basque Country. He is the author of the "The Basque Conflict: new ideas and prospects for peace", (SR 161) USIP April 2006, the Basque Country chapter in Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia, edited by the European Centre for Conflict Prevention, and is co-author of the book The Role of the Media in the Basque
Eoin O'Broin has worked full time for Sinn Fein for eleven years. From 1997 to 1999 he was the National Organiser for Ogra Shinn Fein. From 2001 to 2004 he represented the Old Park electoral district on Belfast City Council. Since 2004 Eoin has held the position of Director of European Affairs co-ordinating Sinn Fein's team in the European Parliament, the party's political relationships with parties across Europe and co-ordinating Sinn Fein' s lobby operation in Britain. Eoin has travelled extensively in the Basque Country since 1997 working with a wide range of political, social and cultural organisations. Eoin is a member of the party's Ard Comhairle (national executive). Eoin is also a published author. His first book, Matxinada Basque Nationalism and Radical Basque Youth Movements was published in English in 2004 and in Spanish in 2005. His second book, is Sinn Fein & the Politics of Left Republicanism (Irish Left Republicanism) published by Pluto Press in June 2007.
Eoin O'Broin holds a degree in Cultural Studies from East London University, an MA in Irish Politics from Queens University and is currently completing a second MA in International Relations in Dublin City University. Eoin lived and worked in Belfast from 1995 to 2004 when he returned to live in his native Dublin.
Rainer Bauböck holds the chair in social and political theory at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute. He is on leave from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for European Integration Research where he is also vice-chair of the Academy's Commission for Migration and Integration Research. His research interests are in normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism and minority rights.
From 1986 to 1999 Rainer Bauböck was assistant professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. He has taught regularly at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and is a recurrent visiting professor at Central European University Budapest. He has also been a visiting academic at the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation (June-July 2006), at Yale University (Jan-May 2005), the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2003), the University of Bristol (April-June 2002), University of Malmo (September 2000-February 2001); the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and Princeton University (September 1998-June 1999); and the University of Warwick (1990-91). In 2003-2005, Rainer Bauböck was president of the Austrian Association of Political Science. In November 2006, Rainer Bauböck was awarded the Latsis Prize of the European Science Foundation for his work on immigration and social cohesion in modern societies.
His book publications in English include Transnational Citizenship: Membership and Rights in International Migration (Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1994); Citizenship Policies in the New Europe (Amsterdam University Press, 2007, co-editor), Acquisition and Loss of Nationality, Volume 1: Comparative Analyses: Policies and Trends in 15 European Countries (Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Research) Volume 1, Acquisition and Loss of Nationality, Volume 2: Policies and Trends in 15 European Countries: Country Analyses (Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Research) Volume 2; Legal Status, Rights and Political Participation, Amsterdam University Press, 2006) (editor); Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship (Ashgate: Aldershot, 1998, co-editor); The Challenge of Diversity: Integration & Pluralism in Societies of Immigration (Avebury, Aldershot, 1996, co-editor); From Aliens to Citizens. Redefining the Legal Status of Immigrants in Europe (Avebury. Aldershot, 1994, editor). He is also the author of several books in German.
Montserrat Guibernau, Degree in Philosophy (Licenciatura) University of Barcelona MPhil. PhD University of Cambridge, Her recent publications include: The Identity of Nations (Polity Press: Cambridge, 2007), Catalan Nationalism (Routledge, 2004), Nations Without States: Political Communities in a Global Age (Polity Press, 1999), Nationalisms: The Nation-State and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century (Polity Press, 1996), History and National Destiny: Ethnosymbolism and Its Critics (Blackwell, 2004) with J. Hutchinson, The Conditions of Diversity in Multinational Democracies (IRPP-MacGill University Press, 2003) with A. Gagnon and F. Rocher, Understanding Nationalism(Polity Press, 2001) with J. Hutchinson, The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration (Polity Press, 1997) with J. Rex. Governing European Diversity (Sage, 2001) editor Nationalism: debates and dilemmas for a new millennium (Proa Press-CETC, 2000) editor, Understanding Nationalism (Polity Press, 2001)
She is a co-editor of the journal Nations and Nationalism (Blackwell) and member of the advisory council of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN).
She holds Visiting Professorships/Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Tampere (Finland), the Pompeu Fabra University and the Autonoma University (Barcelona), the UQAM (Montreal), Austrian Academy of Science (Vienna) and the European Institute of the London School of Economics.
Guibernau is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Canadian Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Studies at UQAM. At present, she is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Global Governance, London School of Economics, UK. She has taught at the universities of Barcelona, Warwick, the Open University and Cambridge.
Anthony D Smith, is Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics, President of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, and Chief Editor of Nations and Nationalism. His publications include: The Ethnic Revival (Themes in the Social Sciences) (1981), Theories of Nationalism (2nd edition 1983), The Ethnic Origins of Nations (1986). National Identity (1991), Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era (1995), Nationalism and Modernism : A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism (1998), Myths and Memories of the Nation (1999), Nationalism : Critical Concepts in Political Science (2001), Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity (2003) and The Cultural Foundations of Nations (2008, forthcoming)
Ferran Requejo is Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he leads the Research Group on Political Theory and he has been in charge of the PhD-programme on Political and Social Sciences. His main fields of research are theories of democracy, federalism, multinational democracies, political theory and political liberalism after World War H. In 1997 he was awarded the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize (ECPR), in 2002 he received the Ramon Trias Fargas Prize, and in 2006 the Spanish Political Science Association Prize to the best book published in 2005. He has been furthermore member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (1997-2003). He is currently a member of the Spanish Electoral Board (Junta Electoral Central) and regular contributor to the newspaper "La Vanguardia" (Barcelona ) .
Among his recent works Multinational Federalism and Value Pluralism (Routledge 2005) Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism (Routledge 2005, edit with R. Maiz); Pluralisme i autogovern al mon. Per unes democracies de qualitat (Eumo. 2005); Federalisme Plurinacional i Estat de les Autonomies (Proa, 2003); Democracy and National Pluralism (ed) (Routledge, 2001; Spanish version, Ariel 2002).
Recent articles and book chapters include: "Federalism and the Quality of Democracy in Plurinational Contexts: Present Shortcomings and Possible Improvements", in U. Amoretti-N. Bermeo (eds), Federalism. Unitarianism and Territorial Cleavages, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004; "Federalism and National Groups", International Social Sciences Journal, 2001: "Political liberalism in multinational states: the legitimacy of plural and asymmetrical federalism" in A Gagnon-J.Tully (eds) Multinational Democracies, Cambridge University Press, 2001; "National Pluralism and Federalism. Four Political Scenarios for Spanish Plurinational Democracy", Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2001; "Cultural Pluralism, Nationalism, and Federalism. A Revision of Democratic Citizenship in Plurinational States", European Journal for Political Research, 1999.
Other works include: European Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the State (Nomos,1998; edited with U. Preuss): Asimetria Federal y Estado Plurinacional. El debate de la diversidad en Canada, Belgica y Espana (Trotta, 1999; edited with E. Fossas); Zoom Politic: democracia, federalisme i nacionalisme des d'una Catalunya europea (Proa,1998); Federalisme, per a que?, (Tres i Quatre,1998)
Brendan O'Duffy holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. He teaches courses of nations, states and nationalism; case studies in ethnic conflict; and democracy in plural societies. His main areas of research include; national and ethnic conflict regulation with particular reference to Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Cyprus; Political Violence/Terrorism; and Electoral Systems. His publications include:
`The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE): Majoritarianism, Self-Determination and Military-to-Political Transitions in Sri Lanka' in M. Heiburg, B. O'Leary and J. Turman (eds) Terror, Insurgency and States, Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2006.
Self Determination and Conflict Regulation in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Beyond, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, 2003.
`Exchange theory and conflict regulation: Cyprus through the British-Irish (Northern Irish) Prism', Hellenic Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 2003 pp. 137-72.
(with Jonathan Githens-Mazer) 'Status and Statehood: Exchange theory and British-Irish Relations, 1921-41' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics vol. 40, no. 2 July 2002: 120-45.
'British and Irish conflict regulation from Sunningdale to Belfast, Part II: Playing for a Draw 1985-1998'. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 6, no. 3, Sept.. 2000.
'British and Irish conflict regulation from Sunningdale to Belfast, Part I: tracing the status of contesting sovereigns, 1968-1974'. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 5, no. 4, Nov. 1999.
(co-author with Helen Margetts, Patrick Dunleavy and Stuart Weir) Making Votes Count: How Britain would have voted under alternative electoral systems, Joseph Rowntree and Democratic Audit, 1997.
'Violence in Northern Ireland 1969 to 1994: Sectarian or Ethno-National?' in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, no.4 1995:740-72.
David McCrone, is Professor of Sociology, and co-director of the University of Edinburgh's Institute of Governance. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He co-ordinated the research programme funded by The Leverhulme Trust on Constitutional Change and National Identity (1999-2004), and on. National Identity, Citizenship and Social Inclusion (2006-2010). He was co-director of the ESRC-funded Scottish Election Study 1997, a principal investigator in the Scottish Parliamentary Election Study 1999, and has held a number of research grants over the years from ESRC, Leverhulme, Rowntree, and Nuffield. He has written extensively on the sociology and politics of Scotland, and the comparative study of nationalism. He was a member of the Expert Panel which devised procedures and standing orders for the Scottish Parliament, and was advisor to its Procedures Committee which reviewed the parliament's founding principles. His recent books include:
Has Devolution Delivered? (2006) – with C. Bromley, J. Curtice and A. Park;
Living in Scotland: social and economic change since 1980 (2004) – with L. Paterson and F. Bechhofer;
Understanding Scotland: the sociology of a nation (2001):
New Scotland, New Society? (2001) – with J. Curtice, A. Park and L. Paterson; New Scotland: New Politics? (2000) – with L. Paterson et a15; he Sociology of Nationalism: tomorrow's ancestors (1998)