Laurent Warlouzet (born 1978) is a French academic who is currently Professor of European History at Paris

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Background

Professor Warlouzet was educated at Paris 4 University. He was appointed associate professor at the

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and subsequently full professor at University of the Littoral, before moving to

in 2019. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the

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in Florence and at

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, where he taught in the MSc History of International Relations.

Work Experience

Professor Warlouzet is a specialist in the history of

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, especially of the

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/ EU, and of European economic and social policies. In his book ''Governing Europe in a Globalizing World'', he interpreted the history of European integration as a contest between social-oriented, neomercantilist, market-oriented and neoliberal projects, wherein

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played a major role in the assertion of a

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Europe. In

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offered a balanced review of the book, stating that: “Although Warlouzet is sometimes tempted to exaggerate the range of potential choices governments faced, in the end, his book proposes some clear answers”.

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underlines that “Warlouzet has written a fascinating and highly important book that stresses the openness of developments and that the EC’s central position for Western Europe’s international economic and social policies was by no means a given”, but he comments that “there is a price for this breadth: the book focuses on the tier of top political decision-makers in the three wealthiest Western European states only” On

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, during a roundtable with Piers Ludlow and Jonathan Faull, Warlouzet has emphasized the outsized influence

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traditionally exercised over the EEC/EU during its years as a member-state An expert on EU and French politics, he writes in

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and he was quoted by the

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, by the Danish newspaper Information, by the

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, by Il

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and by

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Bibliography

* Warlouzet, L., Leucht, B., Seidel K.
Reinventing Europe. The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present
2023 (Bloomsbury) ISBN 978-1-350-21307-4 * Warlouzet, L.,
Europe contre Europe. Entre liberté, solidarité et puissance
', 2022 (CNRS éditions) * Warlouzet, L.,
Governing Europe in a Globalizing World: Neoliberalism and its Alternatives following the 1973 Oil Crisis
', 2018 (Routledge) * Bussière, E. Warlouzet, L. (eds), ''Histoire des Provinces françaises du Nord, 1914-2014'', 2016 (Artois Presses Université) * Chélini, M.-P., Warlouzet, L. (eds), ''Slowing Down Prices. European Inflation in the 1970s'', 2016 (Presses de Sciences-po) * Warlouzet, L., ''Le choix de la CEE par la France. Les débats économiques de Pierre Mendès-France à Charles de Gaulle (1955-1969)'', 2011 (Igpde) * Guieu, J.-M., Le Dréau, C., Ralfik, J., Warlouzet, L., ''Penser et construire l’Europe, 1919-1992'', 2007 (Belin sup) * Rücker, K., Warlouzet, L. (eds), ''Which Europe (s). New Approaches in European Integration History'', 2006 (Peter Lang)

References

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