Adam Holesch
Research Fellow
Project Manager, GLOBE project, H2020
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Biography
Adam Holesch is a post-doctoral fellow and the Project Manager of GLOBE - “Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios”. Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, GLOBE addresses the strategic priorities identified in the EU Global Strategy such as trade, development, security, climate change, migration and global finance.
Adam finished his PhD at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona in 2016. His research follows an interdisciplinary approach mixing insights from Political Theory, Comparative Politics and Political Economy, studying about all questions of nationalism, regionalism and the European Union. Adam has also published two books on German-Polish relations.
Background and education
- (2016) PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- (2011) Master in Political Philiosophy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- (2005) Magister in Political Science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
Awards
2006. Award of the Polish Consulate in Germany (Cologne) for the best master thesis of the year 2005 about the German-Polish relations
Research
Research interests
- Nationalism
- Regionalism
- European Union
IBEI Research Clusters
Research projects
- Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios (GLOBE) (Researcher | Contact person | Project manager)
Selected publications
- 2021.The politics of unilateral secession in the European Union: the case of Catalonia.Territory, Politics and Governance,DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2021.1886979Link
- 2021.Measuring Solidarity – Towards a Survey Question on Fiscal Solidarity in the European Union.Acta Politica,DOI: 10.1057/s41269-021-00198-4Link
- 2021.Democratic backsliding in the European Union: the role of the Hungarian-Polish coalition.East European Politics,DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2020.1865319Link
- 2018.The Decentralization of Poland 1989-2018: From Partisan Disagreement to a Vehicle for Successful Absorption of EU Cohesion Funding.Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals / Journal of Self-Government,28:47-73Link
- 2016.What holds a multinational state together? The political stability of the Spanish "State of Autonomies".PhD Thesis Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- 2014.Die spanische Gemeindeverfassung zwischen zentralstaatlicher Lenkung und regionaler Schwäche.In:
Alber, Elisabeth/Zwilling, Carolin (Hrsg.)
.Gemeinden im Europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Herausforderungen im 21.Jahrhundert, Baden-Baden:Nomos 2014 (The Spanish municipalities between the central state strength and regional weakness),pp: 77-104. - 2013.Collective identity in the European Union.World Tensions,9/19:65-83
- 2012.Bildungsföderalismus in Spanien? (Educational federalism in Spain?).In:
Rudolf Hrbek/Martin Grosse Hüttmann/Josef Schmid (eds.)
.Bildungspolitik in Föderalstaaten und der Europäischen Union: Does Federalism Matter?.Baden-Baden:Nomos 2012 (Schriftenreihe des Europäischen Zentrums für Föderalismus-Forschung, 38),pp: 118-152.