Thomas Christiansen holds a Chair in European Institutional Politics in the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and is also part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence. He is Executive Editor (with Simon Duke) of the Journal of European Integration and co-editor (with Sophie Vanhoonacker) of the ‘European Administration Governance' book series at Palgrave Macmillan and member of the board of the Standing Group on the European Union of the European Consortium for Political Science. He has published widely on different aspects of European integration - Security Relations between China and the European Union, co-edited with E. Kirchner and H. Dorussen, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.