György Schöpflin

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György Schöpflin (born on 24 November 1939 in Budapest) is a Hungarian academic and politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Schöpflin is a substitute member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

Formerly Jean Monnet Professor of Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, he has published extensively on questions of nationhood, identity and political power.

1 Career
2 Publications
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Schöpflin lived in the UK from 1950 to 2004, gaining his secondary education certificate in Scotland, followed by an MA in 1960 and an LLB in 1962 at the University of Glasgow, and a Certificate in European Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges, in 1963.^[1] He then worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London from 1963-67, followed by a spell at the BBC until 1976.^[1] He then returned to academia at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, becoming Jean Monnet Professor of Politics in 1998.^[1] In 2004, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament. He is currently also teaching at the University of Bologna's Forlì centre.

[edit] Publications

Schöpflin has published academic works in both English and Hungarian. When writing in English, he is known as George; in his Hungarian publications he is György. His books include Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992 (Blackwell, 1993), Nations, Identity, Power (Hurst, 2000), Myths and Nationhood (Hurst, 1997, co-edited with Geoffrey Hosking), State Building in the Balkans: Dilemmas on the Eve of the 21st Century (Longo, 1998, co-edited with Stefano Bianchini) and Az identitás dilemmái (Attraktor, 2004).