Profile
Stefan Auer is Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures in the University of Hong Kong. Twice named Jean Monnet Chair in EU Studies, he has published an award-winning monograph, Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (London: Routledge 2004), and articles in Government and Opposition; International Affairs; the Journal of Common Market Studies, Osteuropa and West European Politics, among others. He also writes occasional opinion pieces for The Australian,The Financial Times, Politico, The South China Morning Post and The World Today (Chatham House) and comments on European politics in the media, such as ABC News 24 (based in Melbourne), CNBC and RTHK (based in Hong Kong). Most recently he published, European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (London/New York: Hurst/OUP, 2022).
Tel. No.
39172911
Office
518, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
HKU Scholars Hub
ORCID
Region and Language
Research Area
Political philosophy, Comparative study of nationalism, Various aspects of the crisis of the European project
Key Publications
Article
Power, Violence and the Politics of Hope: Global 1989 from Czechoslovakia to Hong Kong
Australian Journal of Politics and History 66, no. 3 (September 2020): 467–82.
Stefan Auer and Ching Yeung Kenneth Chan
Wiley-Blackwell
2020
Print: 0004-9522 | E-ISSN: 1467-8497
Article
From the rule of law to the rule of rules: technocracy and the crisis of EU governance
West European Politics 42, no. 7 (2019): 1420–42.
Nicole Scicluna and Stefan Auer
Routledge
2019
Print: 0140-2382 | E-ISSN: 1743-9655
Article
Merkel's Germany and the European Union: Between Emergency and the Rule of Rules
Government and Opposition 56, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–19. [Online First: March 2019]
Stefan Auer
Government and Opposition Limited and Cambridge University Press
2019
Print: 0017-257X | E-ISSN: 1477-7053
Book Chapter
CEECs-China: Whose Norms, Whose Values?
China's Relations with Central and Eastern Europe: From "Old Comrades" to New Partners, ed. Weiqing Song (London: Routledge, 2018), 83–99.
Stefan Auer and Thomas Stiegler
Routledge
2017
E-Book: 9781315226644
Article
Architects of the euro: intellectuals in the making of European Monetary Union
International Affairs 93, no. 3 (May 2017): 737–38.
Stefan Auer
Oxford University Press
2017
Print: 0020-5850 | E-ISSN: 1468-2346
Projects
Title | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Borderless Europe and its Discontents: National Sovereignty in Times of Crisis
| GRF | 60000 |
