Erik Jones

Dr. Erik Jones is Director of European & Eurasian Studies and International Political Economy at the Paul H.
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
He is also Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Dr. Jones is author of The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002), Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States (2008), and, together with Dana Allin, Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012).
His most recent book is a collection of short essays called The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014).
He is editor or co-editor of more than twenty books or special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy including The Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (2015).
He teaches on topics in international and comparative political economy with a particular focus on Europe and the transatlantic relationship.
Dr. Erik Jones is a frequent commentator on European politics and political economy whose contributions have been published in, among others, Financial Times, New York Times, USA Today, and newspapers and magazines across Europe.
He has written extensively on European monetary integration and macroeconomic governance and has been active in public debates about the European response to the global economic and financial crisis.
Dr. Jones is co-editor of Government and Opposition and he is a contributing editor to the Institute for International and Strategic Studies journal Survival.
Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, he worked at the Centre for European Policy Studies, the Central European University and the University of Nottingham.
He earned his AB at Princeton University (1988) and his MA and PhD at Johns Hopkins SAIS (1990, 1996).