Professor Robert Jackson, Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Government and Director of International Relations at the University of Redlands (USA), delivered the 2008 Annual Schuman Lecture on the topic of

Security and External Relations in the EU

Dr. Robert Jackson is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Redlands in California.  He is a Senior Associate at St. Antony’s College and Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford. He also holds the positions of Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Life Member/Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall and Centre of International Studies University of Cambridge, England. He is also named associate Fellow in International Security at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), London.

Dr. Jackson has served as Senior Policy Advisor to two Canadian Prime Ministers and a Deputy Prime Minister, worked in the Privy Council Office (Cabinet Office) and has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as well as many other government agencies. He is a Director of the Atlantic Council of Canada.  Professor Jackson is the author and co-author of 38 books (including issues) and some 50 articles in the fields of comparative, Canadian, North American, and international politics.