Douglas Webber
Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Biography
Douglas Webber is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at INSEAD. He has been based at its Europe campus, Fontainebleau (1991-99 and since 2005) and its Asian campus, Singapore (1999-2005). He has a PhD in Government from the University of Essex. Prior to joining INSEAD, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne) and the universities of Essex, Strathclyde (Glasgow) and Sussex. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Jean Monnet Fellow and in 2016-17 and 2017-18 he was a Robert Schuman Fellow and Distinguished Scholar at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. He has been a visiting professor or research fellow at the University of California Berkeley and at Monash University (Melbourne) and the Australian National University (Canberra). He has written and edited several books and published extensively in social science journals in the UK, the US and Germany on European Union (EU) politics, European and Asian regional political integration, Franco-German relations and German politics, foreign policy, and public policy. He is a frequent TV commentator on current political issues. He has recently completed European Disintegration? The Politics of Crisis in the European Union’.
Latest posts
After the Guns Fall Silent, What Then?
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Would an end of Russia's invasion of Ukraine result in lasting peace for the region?
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Calmer Waters: President Biden’s Prospective Foreign Policy
The new president’s foreign policy will differ from Trump’s in style, language and tone more than in substance.
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The Growing Danger of EU Disintegration
A stabilising hegemonic power or coalition is vital for the EU to survive future crises and the rise of populism.
Still in the Danger Zone
The continuing surge of anti-European populists casts a dark shadow over the future of the EU.
A (Temporary) Reprieve for Europe
Macron’s probable victory gives the EU a chance to recover from recent shocks but will he be able to “turn around” France?
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Hail the Populist Counter-Revolution!
The parallels between today and the 1930s are disturbing.
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European Union Faces Another Year of Living Dangerously
Beware - the European Union is not set in stone. It can disintegrate.
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The Road to Brexit and What it Would Mean
The United Kingdom (U.K.) may vote to leave the European Union (EU) on June 23. The implications of this – for the EU as well as the U.K. - are important … and overwhelmingly negative.
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Keep Europe Borderless
The Schengen Accord is one of the most tangible achievements of European integration and a boon for cross-border business. Resurrecting border controls will be politically and economically costly.
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Europe’s Power is Waning
With its economic and political influence increasingly questioned, can Europe ever hope to become a genuine world power?
Nobel Prize for a Noble Cause – Under Threat
A good friend of mine, formerly a high-level civil servant in the European Commission’s delegation in Washington, typically begins lectures on the EU by recounting how he was once asked by the person sitting next to him in a domestic flight in the US where he worked. When he replied, ‘I work for the EU’, his neighbour asked him: ‘The EU – is that an insurance company?’