Adam Holesch
Research Fellow
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Biography
Adam Holesch is a post-doctoral fellow at IBEI, working on the project: "Borders, sovereignity and self-determination in contemporary Europe". Adam did his Master of Arts at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn in 2005. He has just finished his PhD at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His research follows an interdisciplinary approach mixing insights from Political Theory, Comparative Politics and Political Economy, studying about all questions of nationalism, federalism, citizenship and trust. 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
- Federalism
- Nationalism
- European integration
- Trust
- Citizenship
IBEI Research Clusters
Research projects
- LIQUID borders within the EU: in search of member states’ territorial identity and self-perception (LIQUID-EU) (Researcher | Contact person)
Selected publications
- 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 SchwächeIn: Alber, Elisabeth/Zwilling, Carolin (Hrsg.)Gemeinden im Europäischen Mehrebenensystem: Herausforderungen im 21(pp. 77-104).Jahrhundert, Baden-Baden:Nomos 2014 (The Spanish municipalities between the central state strength and regional weakness)
- 2013.Collective identity in the European UnionWorld Tensions,9/19:65-83
- 2012.Educational policy in Spain – a federal illusion?UPF Working paper,2/2012
- 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?(pp. 118-152).Baden-Baden:Nomos 2012 (Schriftenreihe des Europäischen Zentrums für Föderalismus-Forschung, 38)
- 2008.Von Kaczynski zu Tusk – eine deutsch-polnische Tragödie? (From Kaczynski to Tusk – a Polish-German tragedy?)Bonn:Bouvier Verlag
- 2007.Verpasster Neuanfang? Deutschland, Polen und die EU (A lost new beginning? Germany, Poland and the EU)Bonn:Bouvier Verlag