Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

Carine Germond’s main research and teaching interests lie in the field of Contemporary/Modern History and European Studies. Her core research areas are comparative and transnational history of the 20th century and European (integration) History.

She joined the University of Portsmouth in September 2012 as a Marie Curie Fellow for two year for research. Her research project focuses on the role and influence of organized farm interests to explore and explain the striking lack of reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) prior to 1992.

She is also Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Maastricht University (the Netherlands) where she has been teaching in the BA and MA European Studies Programmes since 2009.

Qualifications

• PhD, Contemporary history, University de Strasbourg (2009)
• M. Phil., History of 20th Europe, Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes, University of Strasbourg (1997)
• M.A., German Language and Civilisation, Université François Rabelais, Tours (1996)
• B.A., German Language and Civilisation, Université François Rabelais, Tours (1995)

Research Clusters

•  Transnational Europe

Discipline Areas

• Comparative and transnational history
• European Studies
• International Relations

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• Farmers in Brussels : Agricultural Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy, 1967-1992

Authored Books

• 2013 (forthcoming). Partenaires de raison? Le couple France-Allemagne et l’unification de l’Europe (1963-1969), Munich: Oldenburg

Edited Books

• 2013 (forthcoming). The Maastricht Treaty: Negotiations and Consequences in Historical Perspective, in Journal of European Integration History, (37) (ed. With M. Geary, K. Patel)
• 2010 Ambitions and Reality of the Common Agricultural policy: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. In: Journal of European Integration History, 16 (2) (ed; with K. Seidel, M. Spoerer).
• 2008 A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe: From “Hereditary Enemies” to Partners. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 304 p. (ed. With H. Türk)

Journal Articles

• 2010 The Agricultural Bone of Contention: The Franco-German Tandem and the CAP, 1963-1966, in Journal of European Integration History, 2 (16), 25-44.
• 2010 Defending the Status Quo: Agricultural Interest Groups and the Challenge of Overproduction in the 1970s, in Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 20 (4), 62-82.
• 2010 Preface, in Journal of European Integration History, 2 (16), 8-12 (with K. Seidel, M. Spoerer).
• 2010 Charles de Gaulle and the Grand Coalition’s Ostpolitik, 1966-1969, in Francia. Forschungen zur Westeuropäischen Geschichte, 37, 237-258.
• 2004 Der Staatssekretärausschuss für Europafragen und die Gestaltung der deutschen Europapolitik 1963-1969, in Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, 1, 56-81 (with H. Türk).
• 2004 Du moteur franco-allemand au directoire Paris-Berlin-Londres: Vers un rééquilibrage du leadership européen ?, in Documents. Revue des questions allemandes, 59 (3), 75-78.
• 2001 Innovation oder Status quo? Einordnung der jüngsten Überlegungen über die Finalität Europas, in Dokumente. Zeitschrift für den deutsch-französischen Dialog, 57 1, 34-38.

Book Chapters

• 2013 (forthcoming). Expertise, Information and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Role and Influence of European Farm Organisations in Historical Perspective , in Blom, T. & Vanhoonacker, S. (eds.), The Politics of Informing the EU, Basingstoke: Palgrave
• 2013 (forthcoming). Une génération entre antagonisme séculaire et réconciliation: les dirigeants français et allemands des années 1960 et l’entente franco-allemande, in Bachem-Rehm, M., Hiepel, C. & Türk, H. (Hg.), Internationale Geschichte: Akteure, Handlungsmuster, Perzeptionen, Munich: Oldenburg
• 2013 (forthcoming). Preventing Reform? Agricultural Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy, in Kaiser, W. & Meyer, J.-H. (Eds.), Non-State Actors in European Integration 1958-1992. From Polity-Building to Transnational Politics and Policy-Making?, Basingstoke: Palgrave
• 2012 Franco-German Dynamic Duos: Giscard-Schmidt and Mitterrand-Kohl, in Menon, A., Jones, E. & Weatherill, S. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 193-205.
• 2010 A “Cordial Virtuality”? Charles de Gaulle and the Franco-German Partnership, 1963-1969, in Locher, A., Nuenlist C. & Martin, G. (Eds.), Globalizing de Gaulle: International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, Harvard Cold War Book Series, 43-62.
• 2009 The End of the Cold War and the Unification of the European Continent, in Larres, K. (Ed.), A Companion to Europe Since 1945, London: Blackwell, 208-227.
• 2009 Un traité mort-né ? Les relations institutionnelles franco-allemandes de 1963 à 1969, in Libera, M. & Wassenberg, B. (Dir.), L’Europe au cœur - Etudes pour Marie-Thérèse Bitsch, Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 117-140.
• 2006 Le couple France-Allemagne et la crise de la chaise vide, in Rücker, K. & Warlouzet L. (Eds.), Which Europe(s)? New Approaches to the History of European integration in the 20th century/Quelle(s) Europe? Nouvelles approches en histoire de l’intégration européenne, Bruxelles: Peter Lang, coll. Euroclio, 79-96.
• 2005 Die deutsch-französische Verständigung als Wegweiser für eine europäische Gesellschaft?, in Loth, W. (Hg.), Europäische Gesellschaft. Grundlagen und Perspektive, Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 211-229.
• 2001 La France et l’Allemagne face à l’Europe politique dans les années 60, in Bitsch, M.-T. (Dir.), Le couple France-Allemagne et les institutions européennes. Une postérité pour le plan Schuman?, Bruxelles: Bruylant, 205-227.
• 2001 Les projets d’Union politique de l’année 1964, in Loth, W. (ed.), Crises and Compromises: The European Project 1963-1969, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 109-130.

Other Publications

• 2011 Willy Brandt, in Baugess, J. & Debolt, A. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture, ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, vol. 1: A-L, pp. 76-77.
• 2011 Charles de Gaulle, in Baugess, J. & Debolt, A. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture, ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, vol. 1: A-L, p. 167-168.
• 2011 Ich Bin Ein Berliner Speech, in Baugess, J. & Debolt, A. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture, ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, vol. 1: A-L, pp. 308-309.
• 2011 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, in Baugess, J. & Debolt, A. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture, ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, vol. 2: N-Z, pp. 479-480.

Grants Received

• € 650 (2012), travel grant from the RSCAS/European University Institute for participation in the conference “Transgressing interdisciplinary boundaries”, Portsmouth University, 28-30 June 2012
• € 270.145 (2011), Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship (2012-2014) from the European Commission (FP7) for the research project on agricultural interest groups
• € 24.000 (2011), Jean Monnet Fellowship (2011-2012) from the European University Institute, RSCAS, for a research project on agricultural interest groups
• € 12.500 (2011-2012), funding for Workshop “The Maastricht Treaty: Negotiations and Consequences in Historical Perspective” (with M. Geary and K. Patel), 22-23 June 2012, from the Research Stimulation Funds and the Faculty Board of Maastricht University, Universiteitsfund Limburg/SWOL, and the Gemeente Maastricht
• € 5.000 (2010), Funding for Workshop “Historical and Interdisplinary Perspectives on the Common Agricultural Policy”, Maastricht University, from the research Programme “Politic and Culture in Europe” and the Institut Historique Allemand Paris
• € 3.320 (2011), stipend from the Research Programme “Administrative Governance”, Maastricht University, for conducting research in the archives
• € 9.000 (2009), funding for international conference “Ambitions and Reality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Common Agricultural Policy”, from the Institut Historique allemand Paris and the CVCE, 25-26 May 2009
• € 30.000 (2008), Research fellowship (2008-2009) from the Institut Historique Allemand Paris (France) (30.000 EUR) for the collaborative project “Reform Backlog in Brussels”
• € 20.000 (2008), funding for a series of four workshops for the research project “Contre l’Europe? Euroscepticisme, anti-européanisme et alter-européanisme dans la construction européenne depuis 1945” (2008-2010) (funding from the Maison interuniversitaires des Sciences humaines – Alsaces ; CVCE ; FARE ; Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg, IHEE ; IEP Strasbourg ; Université de Strasbourg (with F. Clavert, M. Gainar, M. Libéra, B. Wassenberg)
• $ 600 (2008), Travel grant from the International Studies Association for ISA conference in NYC, 15-18 February 2009
• € 3.000 (2006), Stipend, translation of chapter contributions to Germond, C., Türk, H. (eds.), “A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe” (New York, Palgrave, 2008) from the FAZIT Foundation (Germany)
• € 1.000 (2003), Stipend, jointly awarded by the Charles de Gaulle Foundation and the Franco-German Youth Office, Paris (France) for the PhD project “A partnership of necessity”
• € 45.000 (2001), Fellowship (2001-2004), Universität Duisburg-Essen for the PhD project “A partnership of Necessity? Franco-German relations and European unification, 1963-1969”.

Consultancy

• 2012. The Common Agricultural Policy: “The CAP after 2013”, Scoreboard for Monitoring Multilevel Governance at the European Union Level, 2d edition, Committee of the Regions
• 2012. An introduction to Franco-German Relations since 1945, The Majalla, London, Paper for Editor-in-Chief.