About Peter Ludlow
Peter Ludlow is president of the Executive Committee of the European Strategy Forum, which he and Antonio Vitorino founded in 2006. Educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Göttingen, Peter Ludlow taught international history in the University of London from 1966-1976. In 1976, he became a professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence, where he remained until 1981, when he was invited to become the founding director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. He retired from CEPS in 2001 and has since spent most of his time writing in Brussels and Portugal and lecturing and speaking in many parts of the world. He has also acted as consultant to official institutions and private companies.
He is the author of numerous books and articles on international history and the policies, politics and institutions of the European Union. His substantial 15-20,000 word Briefing Notes on every meeting of the European Council are widely read by EU insiders in and beyond Brussels.
Peter Ludlow has been awarded many prizes and fellowships including the Prix Europe of 1999 from L’Academie des Marches de l’Est in Strasbourg, for his services to European integration.
Select list of publications:
International History in the 1930s and 1940s.
Bischof Berggrav zum deutschen Kirchenkampf, in: Zur Geschichte des Kirchenkampfes. Ges.Aufsätze II Göttingen, 1971
Scandinavia between the Great Powers, in: Historisk Tidskrift 1974.
Papst Pius XII, die britische Regierung und die deutsche Opposition im Winter 1939-40 in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 1974
The refugee problem in the 1930s. in: The English Historical Review. 1975
The unwinding of appeasement, in: Lothar Kettenacker (ed). Das ‘Andere Deutschland’ im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Stuttgart, 1977
The International Protestant Community in the Second World War. in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 1978
Français et Britanniques dans la drôle de guerre. In : Editions du CNRS 1979
Britain and Northern Europe, 1940-45. in: Scandinavian Journal of History. 1979
Britain and the Third Reich. In: Hedley Bull (ed) The Challenge of the Third Reich OUP, 1986
The Policies, Politics and Diplomacy of European Integration
The Making of the European Monetary System. London, 1982
Beyond 1992: Europe and its Western Partners. Brussels 1989
Governing Europe I and II. (ed) Brussels 1990
The Annual Review of EC Affairs (ed) 1990 and 1991, London 1991 and 1992
Setting European Community Priorities, 1991-1992.(ed) London 1991
The European Commission. In: Stanley Hoffman and Robert Keohane (ed) The New Europe. 1991
The Presidency: a new force in EU politics? In: L’Equilibre Europeen. Essays in honour of Niels Ersboell. Council of the EU, 1994
Preparing for 1996 and a larger European Union: principles and priorities. Brussels 1995.
Preparing for Membership: the Eastward and Southern Enlargement of the EU. Brussels 1996
Preparing Europe for the 21st Century: the Amsterdam Council and Beyond. Brussels 1997
The Laeken Council. Brussels 2002
The Barcelona Council. Brussels 2002
The Seville Council. Brussels 2002
The Making of the New Europe. Brussels 2004
A View from Brussels. 1-14. CEPS, 1995-2001
Briefing Notes: Vol 1. 1-16. 2002-2003
Vol 2. 1-10. 2003-2004
Vol 3. 1-10. 2004-2005
Vol.4. 1-10 2005-2007
Vol.5. 1-10 2007-2008
Vol.6. 1-10 2008-2009
Vol.7. 1- 2009-2010
European Strategy Forum (Editor and Contributor)
Setting EU Priorities 2007
Setting EU Priorities 2008
Setting EU Priorities 2009
The EU and China
Current projects:
A series of books containing reprints of all the Briefing Notes on the European Council since 1999, with fresh introductory material in each volume and supplementary papers as and where appropriate. (To be published from 2010 onwards)
A two volume history of the European Union from 1989-2009 (Target date for completion 2015). Provisional title: Reality overtakes rhetoric: the European Union after the Cold War.