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Thomas Christiansen is affiliated with the Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with a significant concentration in political science and international relations. Additional areas of publication include strategy and management, development, economics and econometrics, as well as statistical and nonlinear physics.

Themes central to Christiansen's work cover various subjects, notably:

  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • European and International Law Studies
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • International Development and Aid
  • Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
  • Fractional Differential Equations Solutions

Christiansen has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • "The EU's New Normal: Consolidating European Integration in an Era of Populism and Geo-Economics*", 2020, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • "Making representative democracy work: the role of parliamentary administrations in the European Union", 2021, Journal of Legislative Studies
  • "Historical Institutionalism in the Study of European Integration", 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • "A Political Economy of Power. Ordoliberalism in Context, 1932-1950", 2022, ORDO
  • "EU-Korea trade relations in the context of global disruption: political and legal perspectives", 2023, Asia Europe Journal

The most frequent co-authors of Christiansen include Emil Kirchner, See Seng Tan, Matilde Ceron, Vigjilenca Abazi, and Johan Adriaensen, each collaborating on multiple works.

The primary venues where Christiansen publishes their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Asia Europe Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Journal of Legislative Studies

Christiansen has also authored books published by Springer International Publishing, including:

  • "The European Union's Security Relations with Asian Partners", 2021
  • "The Contestation of Expertise in the European Union", 2020

Best Publications

  • The Social Construction of Europe

    Thomas Christiansen;Knud Erik Jorgensen;Antje Wiener

  • Tensions of European governance: politicized bureaucracy and multiple accountability in the European Commission

    Thomas Christiansen

  • Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy

    Ben Tonra;Thomas Christiansen

  • Informal governance in the European Union

    Thomas Christiansen;Simona Piattoni

  • Committee governance in the European Union

    Thomas Christiansen;Emil Joseph Kirchner

  • Constitutionalizing the European Union

    Thomas Christiansen;Christine Reh

  • Intra-institutional politics and inter-institutional relations in the EU: towards coherent governance?

    Thomas Christiansen

  • Fuzzy Politics Around Fuzzy Borders: The European Union's `Near Abroad'

    Thomas Christiansen;Fabio Petito;Ben Tonra

  • Towards a ‘Europe of the regions'? Visions and reality from a critical perspective

    Susana Borrás-Alomar;Thomas Christiansen;Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

  • Second Thoughts on Europe's “Third Level”: The European Union's Committee of the Regions

    Thomas Christiansen

  • 3-D imaging using row-column-addressed arrays with integrated apodization - part i: apodization design and line element beamforming

    Morten Fischer Rasmussen;Thomas Lehrmann Christiansen;Erik Vilain Thomsen;Jørgen Arendt Jensen

  • The role of supranational actors in EU treaty reform

    Thomas Christiansen

  • After Lisbon: National Parliaments in the European Union

    Katrin Auel;Thomas Christiansen

  • Reconstructing European Space: From Territorial Politics to Multilevel Governance

    Thomas Christiansen

  • 3-D imaging using row–column-addressed arrays with integrated apodization— part ii: transducer fabrication and experimental results

    Thomas Lehrmann Christiansen;Morten Fischer Rasmussen;Jan Peter Bagge;Lars Nordahl Moesner

  • Transnational governance ‘above’ and ‘below’ the state: The changing nature of borders in the new Europe

    Thomas Christiansen;Knud Erik Jørgensen

  • A maturing bureaucracy? : The role of the Commission in the policy process

    Thomas Christiansen

  • Theorizing EU treaty reform: beyond diplomacy and bargaining

    Gerda Falkner;Thomas Christiansen;Knud Erik Joergensen

  • After the Spitzenkandidaten: fundamental change in the EU’s political system?

    Thomas Christiansen

  • At a critical juncture? Change and continuity in the institutional development of the Council Secretariat

    Thomas Christiansen;Sophie Vanhoonacker

  • Policies, Institutions, and the Euro: Dilemmas of Legitimacy

    Amy Verdun;Thomas Christiansen

  • Informal Politics in the EU

    Thomas Christiansen;Christine Neuhold

  • International Handbook on Informal Governance

    Thomas Christiansen;Christine Neuhold

  • 1. Informal governance in the European Union: an introduction

    Thomas Christiansen;Andreas Føllesdal;Simona Piattoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Jørgen Arendt Jensen
Jørgen Arendt Jensen Technical University of Denmark
Han Dorussen
Han Dorussen University of Essex
Marcel A. J. Somers
Marcel A. J. Somers Technical University of Denmark
Ole Hansen
Ole Hansen Technical University of Denmark
Amy Verdun
Amy Verdun University of Victoria
Andreas Follesdal
Andreas Follesdal University of Oslo
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose London School of Economics and Political Science
Sine Larsen
Sine Larsen University of Copenhagen
Marine Cotte
Marine Cotte European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Kell Mortensen
Kell Mortensen University of Copenhagen

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