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Erik Jones

Erik Jones

Erik Jones is Professor Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Until 2023, he was also Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Jones is author of The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002), Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (2008), Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012 — with Dana H. Allin), and The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014). He is editor or co-editor of more than thirty books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy including reference works like The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015). Jones is also co-editor of Government and Opposition.