Prof John Loughlin
Senior Research Fellow, Member of the Las Casas Institute
Professor John Loughlin is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He is Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where he served as Director of the Von Hügel Institute until his retirement in 2015. He is also Emeritus Professor of European Politics at Cardiff University, where he held the Chair of European Politics from 1994 to 2010.
He has previously been a Senior Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and has held visiting professorships and fellowships in Oxford, Paris, Florence, Princeton, and other European universities. In 2013–14 he held the Université libre de Bruxelles Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, promoting collaboration between the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Professor Loughlin is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. In 2009 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden, in recognition of his research on European politics. In 2010 he was appointed Officier des Palmes Académiques by the French Government for his contributions to French language and culture and to research on European politics.
His current research at the Las Casas Institute focuses on two major projects. The first is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Professor László Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest) on human dignity, economic life, and the moral foundations of business practice, bringing together philosophy, theology, business ethics, and moral psychology. The second project examines Catholic intellectuals in modern France, exploring the contribution of Catholic philosophers, theologians, and public intellectuals to debates on the French Republic, laïcité, human dignity, and public life from the twentieth century to the present.
Publications
Books (authored and co-authored)
Human Dignity: Its Roots and Challenges in Western Thought (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2026).
(with Peter Allott and Richard Crellin), The UK Government’s ‘Big Society’ Programme and Catholic Social Teaching. 77 p. (Chelmsford: Matthew James Publishing, 2013). ISBN 978-0-9574962-0-0
Subnational Government: the French Experience. 239 p. (Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave, May 2007), ISBN: 0333994477
(with Mirela Bogdani) Albania and the European Union: The Tumultuous Journey to Integration and Accession, 288 p. (London: I B Tauris, 2007), ISBN: 184511308X.
Subnational Democracy in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities (Oxford University Press, , HB, 2001; Cloth, 2004) . xiii, 436 p.(with the collaboration of Eliseo Aja, Udo Bullmann, Frank Hendriks, Anders Lidstrom and Daniel-L Seiler), ISBN 0-19-927091-0
(with M. Keating and K. Deschouwer), Culture, Institutions and Regional Development: a Study of Eight European Regions, 224 p. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003). ISBN 1 84064 701 9 [Paperback edition 2005)
Books and Journal Special Issues (edited)
(with Mark Callanan) (eds.), A Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021).
Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2019).
(Guest editor with Sandrina Antunes), “The European Union, subnational mobilization and state rescaling in small unitary states: a comparative analysis“, Regional and Federal Studies. Special Issue, (2019).
(with John Kincaid and Wilfried Schwenden) The Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism, 624 p. (Routledge, 2013).
(with Frank Hendriks and Anders Lidstrom), The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe. 812 p. (Oxford University Press, 2010).
(with David Hanley), Spanish Political Parties, 190 p. (Cardiff: Wales University Press, 2006). ISBN: 0708319319.
(Guest editor with David Hanley), “Religion et Politique”, Special Issue of Pôle Sud (Revue de Science Politique de l’Europe Méridionale. No. 17 – Novembre 2002, ISSN 1262-1676.
(with Alain Delcamp), La décentralisation dans les Etats de l’Union européenne, Coll. Les Etudes, (Paris: La Documentation Française, 2003, 2ième édition) ISBN : 2-11-005295-3, pp. 336
with Claude Olivesi and F. Daftary), Autonomies Insulaires: vers une politique de différence pour la Corse (Ajaccio: Albiana, 1999) ISBN 2-905124-47-4
(with Michael Keating), The Political Economy of Regionalism, (London: Routledge, 1997), 491 p., index, bibliography, ISBN 0-7146-4658-X (cloth), ISBN 0-7146-4187-1 (paperback)
(Sonia Mazey), The End of the French Unitary State? Ten Years of Regionalization in France, 160 p. (London: Frank Cass Ltd., 1995), ISBN 0-7146-4643-1 (cloth), 0-7146-4164-2 (paper)
(with Arenilla Saez and T. Toonen), Europa de las Regiones: una Perspectiva Intergubernatal 287 p. (Granada: University of Granada, 1994), ISBN: 84-338-1883-X
Southern Europe Studies Guide, 233 p. (Bowker Saur Ltd, London, 1993), 233 pp., index, ISBN 0-86291-786-7l
(with M Connolly) Public Policy in Northern Ireland: Adoption or adaptation? 335 p. (Belfast: Policy Research Institute, 1990), ISBN 1 870654 10 2
Articles in refereed journals (recent)
(with Sandrina Antunes), “Europe, subnational mobilization and state rescaling in small unitary states: a comparative analysis”, Regional and Federal Studies, 2019
“Human Dignity: the foundation of human rights and religious freedom”, Memoria y Civilización, Vol. 19, 313-343, 2016. ISSN: 1139-0107; ISSN-e: 2254-6367.
(with John Ryan), “Historical ‘Monetary Unions’: Lessons for the Eurozone Crisis?”, Studia Diplomatica (The Brussels Journal of International Relations), Vol. XVII, No. 4, pp. 21-38 2014.
Chapters in books (recent)
“Territory and Governance”, in Annsi Passi, John Harrison and Martin Jones (eds.), Handbook of Regions and Territories, Edward Elgar, pp. 197-207. ISBN-10: 1785365797; ISBN-13: 978-1785365799, 2018.
(with John Ryan), “Historical Monetary Unions: Lessons for the current Eurozone Crisis”, in John Ryan (ed.), Towards a Resilient Eurozone: Economic, Monetary and Fiscal Policies. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015 pp. 5-30. ISBN 978-3-0343-1946-1.
“The theological and secular dimensions of the modern state”, in José Magone, The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Politics. London and New York: Routledge, , 2015, pp. 52-74. ISBN: 978-0-415-62675-0 9hbk), isbn978-1-315-75583-0 (ebook).
(with F. Hendriks and A. Lidstrom), “Local and Regional Democracy in European Politics”, in José Magone, The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Politics. London and New York: Routledge, , 2015, pp. 398-417. ISBN: 978-0-415-62675-0 9hbk), isbn978-1-315-75583-0 (ebook).
“The theological and secular dimensions of the modern state: historical and contemporary perspectives” in Ferran Requejo and Camil Ungureanu (eds), Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Secularism and Post-Secularism, London: Routledge, 2014 ISBN 978-0-415-82833-8 (hbk); 978-1-315-75880-0 (ebk).