Office Hours:
 By appointment  on TRF

John McCormick is a member of the Department of Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

A citizen of Britain, he was raised in Kenya and has lived in or traveled to countries on four continents. He has degrees from Rhodes University in South Africa and University College London, and a Ph.D from Indiana University. He spent eight years working in the public sector for two London-based environmental interest groups - the World Wildlife Fund, and the International Institute for Environment and Development - and was also a consultant for a number of international organizations, including the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the UN Environment Programme.

His research interests currently focus on the global role of the European Union, and on the implications for the Atlantic Alliance of the foreign policies of the European Union and the United States. He investigates these and related issues in his book The European Superpower, published in 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Professor McCormick teaches courses in comparative politics (Y217) and West European politics (Y335), as well as senior seminars on British politics and on transatlantic relations (Y490). and a graduate seminar on comparative federalism. He also organizes an annual intercollegiate simulation - the Midwest Model European Union - held in Indianapolis every April.

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Exeter in the UK, at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and at the University of Sussex in the UK, where he is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sussex European Institute.

The author of eleven books and multiple book chapters and academic papers, his most recent publications include Environmental Policy in the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), Contemporary Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition, 2007), The European Union: Politics and Policies (Westview, 4th edition, 2008), Understanding the European Union (Palgrave Macmillan, 4th edition, 2008), and Comparative Politics in Transition (Wadsworth, 6th edition, 2009).

Click here for IUPUI Political Science Home Page.

Click here for IUPUI Home Page.