Göran von Sydow is Director of the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS). Göran has previously been senior researcher in political science at SIEPS and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in political science and has studied at the European University Institute in Florence, SciencesPo in Paris and Stockholm University. 

Research interests

• Political parties

• European integration  

• Democracy and constitutional change

• Sweden and European integration

Select publications (in English):

• Perspectives on the future of the EU (2019)

• Spitzenkandidaten – make or break? (2019)

• Trust and crises in the European Union: Exit, voice and loyalty, in (Eds.) i Bakardieva Engelbrekt, Antonina, Michalski, Anna & Lars Oxelheim, Trust in the EU at Challenging Times, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 

• Managing the risk of periphery – Sweden and the future of the EU, in (Eds.) Pollak, Johannes,  Schmidt, Paul & Michael Kaeding The Future of Europe – Views from the Capitals, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 

• Same, same but different: The Nordic EU members during the crisis (2015)

• Politicizing Europe: Patterns of party-based opposition to European integration, Stockholm: Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 2013

• Why Europe? Limits and Possibilities of European Integration (2007)

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