Michael J. Geary is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., USA, and Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He has previously held a Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship at the Catholic University of America (D.C.), and a European Parliament-Geremek Research Fellowship at the College of Europe (Warsaw). He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.