Professor Sophie Vanhoonacker

Chair in Administrative Governance

Sophie Vanhoonacker is Jean Monnet Professor and has a chair in Administrative Governance at the University of Maastricht.

 

Within the Maastricht European Studies programme in the Department of Political Science Vanhoonacker teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the history and theories of European integration; European Foreign Policy (EFP), and on the role of civil servants in a system of multi-level governance. In addition she supervises Bachelor papers and master theses related to these topics. Professor Vanhoonacker’s research is on European foreign policy, especially focused on the role of administrative actors; she supervises PhD candidates in this and related fields.

 

Vanhoonacker is Head of the Department of Political Science since September 2010.

Keywords

European integration, Common Foreign and Security Policy; European Security and Defence Policy, Administrative Governance