GEOFFREY PRIDHAM is Professor of European Politics at Bristol University, UK, and is formerly Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies there. He has worked for a long time in the field of democratisation studies in both Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. Among many works published is
The Dynamics of Democratization: A Comparative Approach (2000). He is continuing research on the EU and democratic conditionality with an ESRC Fellowship during 2004-7, with a programme of work on
Europeanising Democratisation?: EU Accession and Post-Communist Politics in Slovakia, Latvia and Romania.