Professor Simon Green

Profile

Simon Green joined Aston University as Professor of Politics in 2008. Previously, he was Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Portsmouth (1997-2000) and Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in German and European Politics at the University of   Birmingham (2000-2008). At Birmingham, he was also Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies (2006-2008).

He specialises in European politics, focusing on immigration, integration and citizenship policy, as well as on German political structures and party politics. Professor Green is Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe (ACE) and is also currently the Chair of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP).  

Alongside his academic interests, Professor Green is active in British-German relations, and in 2006 was appointed Co-chair of UK-German Connection, a joint initiative of the UK and German governments to strengthen youth links. 

Able to comment for media on 

Immigration, integration and citizenship in Europe (especially the UK and Germany); German politics and elections. 

Professor Green is a regular contributor to the briefings published by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. 

Read ‘Germany’s Immigration Vulnerability‘, AICGS Advisor, July 2008 

Read ‘The Challenge of Immigrant Integration in Europe’, European View 5 (2007)  

Read ‘After Tony: British-German relations under Gordon Brown‘, AICGS Advisor, May 2007  

Read ‘Rethinking Immigrant Integration in Germany‘, AICGS Advisor, December 2006

Qualifications

 BA (Manchester) PhD (Birmingham)

Teaching

 LP 2007 Comparative Government and Politics

 LP 2076 Institutions and Policies of the EU 

LP 3011 Immigration and Citizenship in Western Europe 

Research Interests 

Immigration and Citizenship policy in Europe 

German politics 

European politics 

Recent Publications 

Books 

(2008) (with Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon and Graham Timmins), The Politics of the New Germany (London: Routledge) 

(2007) (with Edward Turner) (eds.), Policy Convergence in the UK and Germany: Beyond the Third Way? (London: Routledge) 

(2005) (with William E. Paterson) (eds.), Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 

(2004) The Politics of Exclusion: Institutions and Immigration Policy in Contemporary Germany (Manchester: Manchester University Press). 

(2002) (with Lothar Funk) (eds.), New Aspects of Labour Market Policy (Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung) 

Journal Articles

 (2007) (with Edward Turner), ‘Understanding Policy Convergence in the UK and Germany’, German Politics 16/1: 1-21 

(2007), ‘Divergent Traditions, Converging Responses: Immigration and Integration Policy in the UK and Germany’, German Politics 16/1: 95-115 

(2005), ‘Between Ideology and Pragmatism: The Politics of Dual Nationality in Germany’, International Migration Review 39/4: 921-52

 (2003) ‘The Legal Status of Turks in Germany’, Immigrants and Minorities 22/2-3: 228-46 

(2001) ‘Immigration, Asylum and Citizenship in Germany: The Impact of Unification and the Berlin Republic’, West European Politics 24/4: 82-104 

(2000) ‘Beyond Ethnoculturalism? German Citizenship in the New Millennium’, German Politics 9/3: 105-24 

Selected Chapters in Volumes 

(2008) (with William E. Paterson), ‘Last Orders? Semisovereignty and the Crisis of Cost Containment in the Grand Coalition’, in A. Miskimmon, W. Paterson and J. Sloam (eds.), Germany’s Gathering Crisis: The 2005 Federal Election and the Grand Coalition (Basingstoke: Palgrave) 

(2006), ‘Zwischen Kontinuität und Wandel: Migrations- und Staatsangehörigkeitspolitik’, in Manfred Schmidt and Reimut Zohlnhöfer (eds.), Regieren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Innen- und Aussenpolitik seit 1949 (Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) 

(2005) ‘Germany’, in Juliet Lodge (ed.), The 2004 Election to the European Parliament (Basingstoke: Palgrave) 

(2003) ‘Towards an Open Society? Citizenship and Immigration’, in Stephen Padgett, William Paterson and Gordon Smith (eds.), Developments in German Politics 3 (Basingstoke: Palgrave)