Derek Beach

Course: Case Study Analysis (2012)

Derek Beach is Associate Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Aarhus and earned his PhD at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of Explaining Foreign Policy (2012) and The Dynamics of European Integration: When and Why EU Institutions Matter (2005) and co-author of Process Tracing: Foundations and Guidelines (2013). In addition to qualitative research methods, his research focuses on the European Union, and he has published numerous articles on the dynamics of the European integration process in the Journal of European Public Policy. He has previously taught at the IPSA Summer School in São Paulo and the ECPR Summer School in Ljubljana and Winter School in Vienna.