Stefan Auer

Stefan Auer is a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Interdisciplinary Studies, Senior Lecturer in History and Politics at La Trobe University. Prior to this, he was Lecturer (2001-6) and Academic Director (2004-5) of the Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin.

His book, Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004, pbk 2006) won the prize for Best Book in European Studies (2005) with the University Association for contemporary European Studies (UACES). He has published articles in Critical Horizons, East European Politics and Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Osteuropa, Telos and elsewhere.

Research interests include:
European History
- Enlargement of the European Union
- Eurozone crisis
- Nationalism in Central Europe

Political Theory and Political Philosophy
- Political thought of dissident intellectuals and Hannah Arendt
- The self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe