20 Facts About Jolyon Howorth

Jolyon Michael Howorth was born on 4 May 1945 and is a British scholar of French history, European politics and defense policy.

Jolyon Howorth is currently Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics and Professor Emeritus of European Studies at the University of Bath; and a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

Jolyon Howorth served as Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Jolyon Howorth was Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University.

Jolyon Howorth served as Professor of French Civilisation at the University of Bath from 1985 to 2004.

Jolyon Howorth has held Visiting Professorships at Harvard University, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Luiss Guido Carli University, the Australian Defence Force Academy the University of Washington, Columbia University and New York University.

Jolyon Howorth was a founder member of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France.

Jolyon Howorth was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK and brought up outside Oxford.

Jolyon Howorth's father was a photographer and his mother a head-teacher.

Jolyon Howorth was educated at Rossall School and at Henry Box School.

Jolyon Howorth holds a BA in French Studies from the University of Manchester and a PhD in French History from the University of Reading.

Jolyon Howorth has served as an advisor for the transatlantic think-tank European Horizons; and for Fair Observer on foreign and defense policy as well as the changing nature of transatlantic relations.

Jolyon Howorth has served on the editorial boards of Politique Etrangere; European Geostrategy; European Review of International Studies; Les Cahiers de Mars; Studia Diplomatica- the Brussels Journal of International Relations; Yale Journal of International Affairs; L'Evenement europeen.

Jolyon Howorth's work has covered three distinct fields: French social and political history during the Belle Epoque ; French politics and particularly security, defence and nuclear policy since the 1960s; European security and defence policy and its relations with NATO.

Jolyon Howorth showed that, together with Jean Jaures, Vaillant forged the intellectual and political compromise that synthesized the many different strands of the French left emerging out of the revolutionary tradition of the nineteenth century.

The collapse of the Second International over war and peace and the subsequent break-up of the SFIO with the creation of the pro-Moscow French Communist Party in 1920 led Jolyon Howorth to specialize more intensely in international relations and issues of war and peace.

The third strand of Jolyon Howorth's research began in the late-1980s as the imminent end of the Cold War induced an embryonic move, on the part of Europe's nation states, to coordinate their foreign and defence policies.

Jolyon Howorth's work has deployed a range of theoretical approaches, depending on the subject matter.

Jolyon Howorth has been diversely categorised by other scholars as a realist, an institutionalist and a constructivist.

Since 2001, Jolyon Howorth is married to Vivien Schmidt, a professor at Boston University.