Chris Bickerton is a lecturer in international politics at the University of Oxford. He is currently writing a book on the EU’s foreign policy, provisionally entitled ‘Europe’s Compromising Union’. He has also published widely on themes such as democracy and sovereignty in Europe and in 2007 published a co-edited book called Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations. He is a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique and has been published widely in the press in the UK and beyond.