Otto Holman is a reader in international relations and European integration studies, Department of Political Science, and a member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, both at the University of Amsterdam. He is director of the new MSc Programme, European Union in a Global Order, at the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS). The GSSS is the successor to the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences and Holman was founder and director (1998-2008) of the MSc programme there.

Holman’s research interests include the role of transnational social forces in emerging patterns of European governance, peripheral capitalism and EU enlargement and the regional impact of core-periphery relations in Europe. He is currently writing a book on transformation processes in Central Europe and the European Union and new patterns of core periphery relations in an enlarged Union. A central theme of this book is the intersection of the EU’s external performance, on one hand, and its internal, crisis-driven governance structures, on the other.