Strengthening the development-security nexus: the European Union, division of labour and fragile states.

A lecture by visiting Prof. Maurizio Carbone of the University of Glasgow.  Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science.  Maurizio Carbone is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Glasgow, where he also directs the Scottish Jean Monnet Centre of European Excellence. His main research interests focus on the external relations of the European Union, development policy, foreign aid and the politics of international development. His latest books include: The European Union and International Development: The Politics of Foreign Aid (Routledge, 2007), Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy (edited, Routledge, 2009) and National Politics and European Integration: From the Constitution to the Lisbon Treaty (E. Elgar, forthcoming, 2010). At the moment he is working on a book on the EU’s relations with Africa (Manchester University Press).