Alasdair Blair is Jean Monnet Professor of International Relations, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of European Governance and Head of the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. His main area of research and teaching is in the area of British Foreign Policy and European Integration. He is a National Teaching Fellow.He completed his Ph.D on Britain and European integration at Leicester University, where he also completed a MA in Diplomatic Studies. His undergraduate studies were taken at Aberdeen University, during which time he spent a year studying at Earlham College in the USA on a Great Lakes College Association scholarship. He also possesses an MA in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from Coventry University.From September 2008-July 2011 he was Head of the Department of Historical and Social Studies at De Montfort University. Before then he was Jean Monnet Professor of International Relations at Coventry University. Between July 2007 and August 2008 he was seconded for 40% of my time as Director of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) which is based at Birmingham University. Alasdair has also held academic posts at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University), Nottingham Trent University, Loughborough University and the Open University.An author of 12 books, Alasdair has also been book review editor for European Foreign Affairs Review since 2002.