Schout, Adriaan
Dr. Adriaan Schout is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator Europe. He combines research and consultancy on European governance questions for national and European institutions. He has worked on projects addressing issues of the EU presidency, EU integration and Improving EU regulation, amongst others.
Prior to joining Clingendael, he served as an independent expert in the field of EU governance for the Economic and Social Committee (2006) and for the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission, supporting the multilevel coordination questions in the process of writing the White Paper European Research Area (European Commission, 2007). He is Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) of the University of East Anglia (UK). He graduated from Groningen with a Master’s degree in Economics, and completed his PhD in Political Science at Leiden University.
He has (co-)authored numerous books and international articles. He won the UACES price for ‘Best Book in European Studies 2007’ for The coordination of the European Union: Exploring the capacities of networked governance (Oxford University Press).
Research Interests: European integration, Euro Crisis, European Governance and better regulation, The EU Presidency, EU agencies, Europeanization of national administrations, and The Netherlands
Listing Details
| Institution: | Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael |
| Fields of Expertise: | Economic Policy and Financial Issues EU Institutions EU Multi-level Governance EU Policies EU Trade and the Single Market European Identity/ EU Citizenship |
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| Email: | aschout@clingendael.nl |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | Dutch, English |
| Publications: | Schout, A., J. Rood (eds) (2013) The Netherlands as an EU member state: a normal partner at last? Portland: Eleven International Publishing. Bevacqua, Davide & Schout, Adriaan. (2018). EU added value: Fact-based policy or politised facts?. Schout, Adriaan. (2017). De EMU heeft geen weeffouten: Een kritiek op de discussienota van de Europese Commissie over de verdieping van de EMU. Beleid en Maatschappij. 44. 329-335. Schout, Adriaan. (2017). The Dutch EU Presidency: The Continuing Relevance of the Rotating Presidency in a Political Union. JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies. 55. Schout, Adriaan & Wiersma, Jan & Neto, Mariana & Bokhorst, David. (2016). De parlementarisatie van Europees economisch beleid. Bestuurskunde. 25. Schout, Adriaan & Wiersma, Jan-Marinus & Bokhorst, David. (2016). Onvermijdelijke verdragswijziging vereist een ander EU-referendum. Beleid en Maatschappij. 43. Schout, Adriaan. (2019). The Netherlands and the EU: Strengthening but Not Centralising the EU. 10.1007/978-3-319-93046-6_21. Schout, Adriaan & Sleifer, J.. (2014). Expertise at the crossroads of national and international policy making: A public management perspective. 10.1007/9781139871365.022. Schout, Adriaan & Wolff, Sarah. (2012). The 'Paradox of Lisbon': Supranationalism-Intergovernmentalism as an administrative concept. |
