John Loughlin is a British-based academic and educator from Northern Ireland, and a noted specialist in European territorial politics. After being educated in St. Malachy's College, he spent several years as a Cistercian monk at Our Lady of Bethlehem Abbey, Portglenone, Northern Ireland, where he carried out the usual studies for the priesthood in philosophy, theology and biblical studies. He is currently a Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford. He is an Emeritus Fellow and former Tutor at St Edmund's College, where he was Director of the Von Hügel Institute, and a Senior Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, both at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Politics at Cardiff University, where he remains an Emeritus Professor. He received his doctorate in 1987 at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy for a thesis, Regionalism and ethnic nationalism in France: a case study of Corsica.
Honorary Doctorate, University of Umeå, Sweden "in recognition of his contribution to research in the field of European politics and territorial governance".
Officier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France "in recognition of his research on European politics and his contribution to French language and culture".
Honorary Professor, Cardiff University
Chaire Ganshof van der Meersch, Université libre de Bruxelles
He is the author of the authoritative Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe, and numerous other books and conference proceedings, published in several languages.
Books
‘Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Orthodox Perspectives’ Bloomsbury Press, 2019
, London: Routledge, 2013
, The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe
Subnational Government: the French Experience In 263 libraries according to
Albania and the European Union: The Tumultuous Journey to Integration and Accession,
Subnational Democracy in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities
, Culture, Institutions and Regional Development: a Study of Eight European Regions,
, The Transformation of Territorial Governance in the 21st Century,
*also published in German as Die regionale und lokale Demokratie in der Europäischen Union 1999
*Also published in Danish as: Det regionale og lokale demokrati i Den Europæiske Union. Luxembourg: Kontoret for De Europæiske Fællesskabers Officielle Publikationer, 1999
*also published in Dutch as Regionale en lokale democratie in de Europese Unie 1999
*also published in French as Démocratie locale et régionale dans l'Union européenne 1999
*also published in Portuguese as A democracia regional e local na União Européia 1999
*also published in Italian as La democrazia regionale e locale nell'Unione europea. 1999
, The Political Economy of Regionalism
, The End of the French Unitary State? Ten Years of Regionalization in France
Europa de las Regiones: una Perspectiva Intergubernatal
