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Kevin Featherstone is a British political scientist. He is Eleftherios Venizelos Chair of Contemporary Greek Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of the Hellenic Observatory. Kevin Featherstone has written extensively on the politics of the European Union and on the politics of Greece. To date, he has published fourteen books and thirty articles in academic journals. These include Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power, The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece (Palgrave, 2008), both written with Dimitris Papadimitriou. His 1999 book with Kenneth Dyson on The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union’ Oxford University Press, 1999) – was selected by the European Parliament in 2014 as one of the ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember . He has also published books on the politics of Europeanization; the EU and the USA; and, social democratic parties and European integration.

Before joining the LSE, Featherstone was at the University of Stirling and the University of Bradford. He has held visiting academic positions at the University of Minnesota; New York University; and Harvard University. He obtained his BA and MA degrees at the University of Essex and his PhD from the University of Manchester in 1982.

Distinctions
At the LSE, Kevin Featherstone was instrumental in establishing the ‘Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies’ at the European Institute in 2006 – the first time that chairs on modern Greece and Turkey have been created in the same academic department.

In 2010, Featherstone became the first foreign member of the Greek National Council for Research and Technology (in Greek: Εθνικό Συμβούλιο Έρευνας και Τεχνολογίας), under Professor Stamatis Krimigis of Johns Hopkins University and Anna Diamantopoulou as Minister for Education and Religious Affairs. He was appointed also to an ad hoc advisory committee to the Greek Prime Minister, Georgios Papandreou – the 'Advisory Committee for the Modernisation of the Operation of the  Government' - and wrote its final report.

In a Greek TV address in September 2011, as PM, Papandreou quoted Featherstone’s analysis of the problems of coordination within the Greek government as stemming from ministries operating as ‘fiefdoms’, resistant to coordination and serving the interests of their heads via political favours. Subsequently, Featherstone’s book with Dimitris Papadimitriou (Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power; Oxford University Press, 2015) influenced the EU Commission’s thinking on Greece’s bail-out programme, insisting on a new central committee within the government to coordinate and oversee reforms, something enacted while Antonis Samaras was Prime Minister. In 2013, he was awarded ‘Commander: Order of the Phoenix’ on behalf of the President of the Hellenic Republic for his work in increasing the international understanding of Greece.

Selected publications

 * ''Socialist Parties and European Integration: A Comparative History (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1988).
 * European Internal Market Policy (London, Routledge, 1989).
 * The Successful Manager’s Guide to 1992 (London, Fontana, 1990).
 * ''The United States and the European Community in the 1990s, (London,Macmillan / St. Martin’s, 1993; second edition 1996). (with R. Ginsberg)
 * The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union,(Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999). (with K. Dyson)
 * The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece (London, Palgrave, 2008). (with D. Papadimitriou)
 * ''The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece, 1940-1949. (London, Palgrave, 2011).
 * (with D. Papadimitriou, A. Mamarelis and G. Niarchos)''
 * Prime Ministers in Greece: the paradox of power.  (Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2015). (with D. Papadimitriou).
 * ''Political Change in Greece: Before and After the Colonels; London: Croom Helm, 1987)
 * (with D. Katsoudas)''
 * Greece in a Changing Europe: Between European Integration and Balkan Disintegration (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1996). (with K. Ifantis)
 * Europeanization and the Southern Periphery. (with G. Kazamias)
 * The Politics of Europeanisation, (New York, Oxford UniversityPress,2003). (with C. Radaelli)
 * Editor and contributor (Introduction) to the special issue of the journal,West European Politics, entitled The Challenge of Modernisation: Politicsand Policy in Greece; 28, 2, March 2005. 
 * Europe in Modern Greek History, London: C. Hurst & Co. 2014  ''