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Carlos Reijnen (1975) is assistant professor East European studies at the European Studies department. He specializes in European integration and Central and Eastern European history and politics. His current research interests focus on East West relations in Europe and on the construction of European public sphere(s). Previous projects include the Czech Stalinist nationalism and Czech perceptions of Europe and European integration. The latter project resulted in the dissertation Op de drempel van Europa. De Tsjechen en Europa in de twintigste eeuw (At the Threshold of Europe. The Czechs and Europe in the Twentieth Century, Leiden, 2005, with distinction).
Research focus
Political and Intellectual History
Germany, Poland, Czech & Slovak Republic, Hungary, Balkans
European Public Sphere(s)
East-West relations in Europe
External Relations of the European Union
Current projects
Currently he is engaged in projects about European spaces of cultural and intellectual exchange and about the East in the formation of the post Cold War self-definition of Europe and the EU
Books
Reijnen, C.W.C., Op de drempel van Europa. De Tsjechen en Europa in de twintigste eeuw (Kampen 2005).