The Editors : Alfonso Martínez Arranz is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at the Monash European and EU Centre. He holds an MA from the Autonomous University of Madrid and is a gifted linguist with expertise in intercultural communication and the European Union. Natalie J. Doyle holds a PhD in Politics. She is a Senior Lecturer in French and European Studies and Deputy Director of the Monash European and EU Centre at Monash University in Melbourne.
Her publications focus on French social and political thought with particular reference to interpretations of modernity. She also researches the place of religion in modern European culture and issues of European identity with respect to the European Union. Pascaline Winand is Professor, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Monash European and EU Centre at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
She also teaches at the Institut d'études européennes of the Université libre de Bruxelles. Before taking up her current position in Australia, she was Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. She has published widely on the European Union and its external relations.