Fossum, John Erik
John Erik Fossum is Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. He has a BA from the University of Bergen, an MA from UC Santa Barbara, and a PhD from UBC, Vancouver, Canada. He has published widely on issues of federalism, identity, democracy and constitutionalism in the EU and Canada. He is project co-ordinator for the H2020-project EU3D – Differentiation, Dominance, Democracy (2019–2023), and PI in the H2020-project Differentiation: Clustering Excellence (DICE), and PI in Plurispace (HERA). His most recent books are: Squaring the Circle on Brexit – Could the Norway Model Work? (2018), with Hans Petter Graver; Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada, (2018), co-edited with Riva Kastoryano and Birte Siim, and Towards a Segmented European Political Order, co-edited with Jozef Batora (2020). His most recent articles are “European Federalism: Pitfalls and Possibilities,” European Law Journal, (2017) 23 (5): 361–379; “Can Brexit Improve Our Understanding of “Wicked Problems”? Reflections on Policy and Political Order”. European Policy Analysis. (2019) 5(1):99-116; and “Norway and the European Union”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Politics.
Research Interests: Political Science, Federalism, Democracy, Constitutionalism, Identity.
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Oslo |
| Fields of Expertise: | Collective Identity Democracy and Political Participation Federalism and Territorial Politics Law and Legal Issues |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | j.e.fossum@arena.uio.no |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, Norwegian |
| Publications: | Batora, J. and J.E. Fossum (eds), Towards a Segmented European Political Order, London: Routledge. (2019) Fossum, J.E. and H. P. Graver, Squaring the Circle on Brexit – Could the Norway Model Work? Bristol: Bristol University Press. (2018) Fossum, J.E., R. Kastoryano, and B. Siim (eds.), Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada, Palgrave. (2018) Fossum, J.E. and M. Jachtenfuchs (eds.) Federal challenges and challenges to federalism. Insights from the EU and federal states, London: Routledge. Book version of JEPP Special Issue. (2017) Fossum, J. E. “Can Brexit Improve Our Understanding of “Wicked Problems””? Reflections on Policy and Political Order. European Policy Analysis. 5(1):99- 116. (2019) Fossum, J. E. “What is the Norway Model? Mode of Affiliation or Political Compromise?” Political quarterly, 90(2):266-73. (2019) Fossum, J.E. “European federalism: Pitfalls and possibilities”, European Law Journal, 23(5): 361-379. (2017) Fossum, J.E. “Norway and the European Union”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Politics. (2019) Fossum, J.E., “Political Parties and Conflict Handling”, in D. Castiglione and J. Pollak (eds.) Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation, University of Chicago Press. (2019) Fossum, J.E., “Off Field? The EU’s Parliamentary Dimension Post-crisis”, in D. Innerarity (ed.) A New Narrative for a New Europe, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.(2019) |
