• nationalism, Lega Nord Italiy, regions in the European Union, history of political thought

Michel Huysseune, Ph.D., is professor of Political Science and senior researcher at the Free University of Brussels (ULB/VUB). His fields of interest include the history of political thought and the construction of nationalist discourses. He has published numerous articles on these topics in scholarly reviews and edited volumes. He is the author of Modernity and Secession. The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy, Oxford, Berghahn, 2006 and the editor of Contemporary Centrifugal Regionalism: Comparing Flanders and Northern Italy, Brussels, The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, 2011.