José M. Magone (MPhil and DPhil, University of Vienna) is Professor of Regional and Global Governance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Previously he has taught at the University of Hull and the Instituto Piaget in Lisbon. He was Karl W. Deutsch Guest Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin 1999 and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Granada, Siena, Salamanca and Luxembourg. He has published ten books, over 40 chapters and 14 journal articles. His latest book is Contemporary European Politics (London:Routledge 2011) . He is currently engaged in research on “Change in Consensus Democracies”.