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FERNANDO GUIRAO CV
Contact Information
Department of Economics and Business
Phone: (+34) 93 542 1762
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Fax: (+34) 93 542 1746
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
E-mail: [email protected]
08005 Barcelona, Spain
http://www.econ.upf.edu/en/people/onefaculty.php?id=p275
Present Academic Position
September 2013 onwards
Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration History «ad personam»
(Ref. No. 542523-LLP-1-2013-I-ES-AJM-CL)
Since January 2014
Affiliated professor (‘professor investigador’) of the
Universitari
d’Història
Jaume
Vicens
(http://www.upf.edu/iuhjvv/professorat/).
Since 2007
Affiliated professor of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Since 1996
Member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians
Institut
Vives
This Committee was established in 1982 to disseminate research on the
post-war history of Europe, to advise the European Community and
facilitate access to research facilities, to encourage academic research,
promote new areas of historical research, and to promote cooperation
between European universities.
Since 1996
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of European Integration
History
The purpose of the JEIH is to encourage the analysis and
understanding of different aspects of European integration, especially
since 1945, in as wide a perspective as possible.
Education
European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Ph.D. in History and Civilization, 1993
Dissertation entitled “Spain and Western European Economic Cooperation, 19451955. A Case Study in Spanish Foreign Economic Policy”. In view of the outstanding
quality of the thesis, the Examining Board unanimously complimented the candidate.
Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, B.A. in Modern and Contemporary History, June 1986.
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Centre for European Studies, Master of
Specialization on the European Communities (Economic Branch), June 1986.
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Fields of interest
The history of European integration, contemporary Spanish history (the Franco regime and
democratic transition), trade policies, agricultural protectionism
Publications, books
1.
(with Frances M.B. Lynch) (eds.), Alan S. Milward and a Contemporary European
History: Collected Academic Reviews, London [Routledge] 2015 (forthcoming), 673
printed pages. Hard copy and e-Book editions.
2.
(with Frances M.B. Lynch and Sigfrido Ramírez) (eds.), Alan S. Milward and a
Century of European Change, London [Routledge Studies in Modern European
History series] April 2012 (634 printed pages). ISBN: 978-0-415-87853-1. Hard copy
and Kindle editions.
3.
(with Mario del Pero, Victor Gavín and Antonio Varsori), Democrazie. L’Europa
meridionale e la fine delle dittature, Milan [Mondadori Education - Quaderni di
Storia – Le Monnier] 2010 (292 printes pages). ISBN 978-88-00-20892-5.
4.
Spain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-57. Challenge and Response,
London and New York [Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press] 1998 (240 printed pages);
ISBN 0-333-71078-9 (0-312-21291-7 in USA and Canada). E-book version ISBN
9780333710784.
Publications, chapters in books
1.
“An Independent Catalonia as a Member of the European Union? Terra Ignota”, in
Xavier Cuadras-Morató (ed.), Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe?,
London [Routledge] 2015 (forthcoming).
2.
(co-author Victor Gavín Munté), “La Comunidad Europea y la transición española
(1975-1977)”,
in
Cristina
Blanco
Sío-López
and
Susana
Muñoz
(eds./dirs.), Converging Pathways: Spain and the European Integration Process /
Itinerarios Cruzados: España y el proceso de construcción europea, Bruxelles, Bern,
Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien [P.I.E. Peter Lang], 2013, pp.
159-197.
3.
(co-author, Frances M.B. Lynch), “A Lifetime’s Search for a Theory of Historical
Change—An Introduction to the Work of Alan S. Milward”, in Fernando Guirao,
Frances M.B. Lynch and Sigfrido Ramírez (eds.), Alan S. Milward and a Century of
European Change, London [Routledge Studies in Modern European History series]
April 2012, pp. 1-129; ISBN: 978-0-415-87853-1.
4.
(co-author Víctor Gavín Munté), “La dimensione internazionale della transizione
politica spagnola, 1969-1982. Quale ruolo giocarono la Comunità europea e gli Stati
Uniti”, in Mario del Pero, Victor Gavín, Fernando Guirao and Antonio Varsori,
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Democrazie. L’Europa meridionale e la fine delle dittature, Milan [Mondadori
Education - Quaderni di Storia – Le Monnier] 2010, pp. 173-264; ISBN 978-88-0020892-5.
5.
“Naranjas y piritas: los embajadores de Franco en la inmediata segunda postguerra
mundial”, chapter 44 of Enrique Fuentes Quintana (dir.) and Francisco Comín Comín
(coord.), Economía y economistas españoles en la Guerra Civil, Barcelona [Galaxia
Gutemberg / Círculo de Lectores], 2009, Vol. 2, pp. 555-603; ISBN 9788481097689.
6.
“¿Se beneficiaron los emigrantes españoles del Acuerdo de 1970 entre España y la
Comunidad Económica Europea?”, in Joseba de la Torre and Gloria Sanz Lafuente
(eds.), Migraciones y coyuntura económica del franquismo a la democracia,
Zaragoza [Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza] 2008, pp. 127-50; ISBN 978-8492521-84-5.
7.
“The European Community’s role in promoting democracy in Franco’s Spain, 19701975”, in Jan van der Harst (ed): Beyond the Customs Union: The European
Community’s Quest for Deepening, Widening and Complition, 1969-1975, Nomos
Verlag (Baden-Baden) / Bruylant (Brussels) / Paris (L.G.D.J.) 2007, pp. 163-193;
ISBN 978-2-8027-2428-5.
8.
“Solvitur ambulando. The Place of the EEC in Spain’s Foreign Economic Policy,
1957-62”, in Alan S. Milward and Anne Deighton (eds.), Widening, Deepening and
Acceleration: The European Economic Community, 1957-1963, Baden-Baden and
Brussels [Nomos Verlag and Bruylant] 1999, pp. 347-58.
9.
“The Origins and Nature of the First Spanish Application to the European Economic
Community”, in L’Union européenne à l’aube d’un nouveau siècle. Liber Amicorum
Jacqueline Lastenouse-Bury, Madrid [EUROIUS] 1997, pp. 31-45.
10.
“The United States, Franco, and the Integration of Europe”, in Francis H. Heller and
John Gillingham (eds.), The United States and the Integration of Europe. Legacies of
the Post-war Era, New York [St. Martin’s Press] 1996, pp. 79-101.
11.
“Spain’s Role in Western European Economic Relief and Reconstruction, 1945 to
Spring of 1947”, in Michel Dumoulin (ed.), Plans des temps de guerre pour l’Europe
d’après-guerre - Wartime Plans for Post-war Europe (1940-1947), Brussels, Milan,
Paris, Baden-Baden [Emile Bruylant, Giuffrè, Librairie Générale de Droit et de
Jurisprudence and Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft] 1995, pp. 563-88.
12.
“Spain and the ‘Green Pool’: Challenge and Response, 1950 to 1955”, in Richard T.
Griffiths and Brian Girvin (eds.), The Green Pool and the Origins of the Common
Agricultural Policy, London [Lothian Press] 1995, pp. 261-87.
13.
(Co-authored with Richard T. Griffiths) “The First Proposals for a European
Agricultural Community: The Pflimlin and Mansholt Plans”, in Richard T. Griffiths
and Brian Girvin (eds.), The Green Pool and the Origins of the Common Agricultural
Policy, London [Lothian Press] 1995, pp. 1-19.
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14.
“The Spanish Socialist Party”, in Richard T. Griffiths (ed.), Socialist Parties and the
Question of Europe in the 1950’S, New York [E.J. Brill] 1993, pp. 251-72.
Publications articles in peer-reviewed journals
1.
“Double Allegiance as the Central Political Issue”, Journal of European Integration
History, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2014), pp. 5-15.
2.
(with Frances M.B. Lynch), “The Intellectual Legacy of Alan S. Milward”, Journal of
European Integration History, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2014), pp. 17-41.
3.
“La crisis en la Unión Europea y el supuesto liderazgo alemán”, Ayer. Revista de
Historia Contemporánea, No. 93/2014 (1), pp. 253-266.
4.
(with Frances M.B. Lynch), “L’eredità intellettuale di Alan S. Milward”, Memoria e
Ricerca, Year XX, New Series, no. 41 (September-December 2012), pp. 181-206.
5.
“Introduction to the Special Issue on CAP Reform”, Journal of European Integration
History, vol. 16, No. 2 (2010), pp. 13-24.
6.
“Solving the Paradoxes of Enlargement: the Next Research Challenge in our Field”,
Journal of European Integration History, vol. 11, No. 2 (2005), pp. 5-9.
7.
“Introduction” to the monographic issue “Peripheral countries and the Integration of
Europe”, Journal of European Integration History, vol. 7, No. 1 (2001), pp. 5-10.
8.
“Association or Trade Agreement? Spain and the EEC, 1957-64”, Journal of
European Integration History, vol. 3, No. 1 (1997), pp. 103-20.
Other publications
1.
“La importància del Parlament Europeu per a la ciutadania”, Opinión Europa, no.
227, CIDOB, March 2014.
2.
“L’evolució de la integració europea des de l’adhesió d’Espanya a la Comunitat fins a
la Unió Europea d’avui (1986-2007). Una reflexió crítica”, en Nota d’Economia
(Departament d’Economia i Finances de la Generalitat de Catalunya), no. 88 (2nd
quarter 2007), pp. 41-57.
3.
Historia detallada de la Unión Europea, Barcelona [Fundació Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya] 2006 [published on-line teaching materials].
4.
“Spain”, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan. In Retrospect and in
Prospect, The Hague [Cligendael] October 1997, pp. 50-2.
Working papers
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Co-author (with Frances M.B. Lynch), “The Implicit Theory of Historical Change in the work of
Alan S. Milward”, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Working Paper Series
no. 586, Barcelona, October 2011 (accessible at
http://research.barcelonagse.eu/tmp/working_papers/586.pdf) and European
University Institute Working Paper 2012/01 Department of History and Civilization
(accessible at http://hdl.handle.net/1814/20154).
The BGSE WP has been listed in the ‘NEP: New Economics Papers Business’ (in
‘Economic and Financial History’, edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, and in ‘History
and Philosophy of Economics’, edited by Erik Thomson) on 15 May 2012.
Books reviewed
1.
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, A Europe Made of Money. The Emergence of the
European Monetary System, Ithaca and London [Cornell University Press] 2012, for
H-Diplo, Vol. XV, No. 30 (2014), 14 April 2014.
2.
Javier Cercas, Anatomía de un instante, Barcelona [Random House Mondadori] 2009,
in Il Mestiere di Storico. Rivista Della Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia
Contemporanea, Vol. III, No. 1, 2011, pp. 70-72.
3.
Maria Elena Cavallaro, Los orígenes de la integración de España en Europa: desde el
Franquismo hasta los años de la Transición, Madrid [Sílex] 2010, in Il Mestiere di
Storico. Rivista Della Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea, Vol.
II, No. 2, 2010, p. 173.
4.
Esther Sánchez Sánchez, Rumbo al Sur. Francia y la España del desarrollo, 19581969, Madrid [Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas] 2006, in Revista de
Historia Industrial, No. 33, 2007-1, pp. 219-23.
Press articles
1. La Vanguardia, ‘Ensenyar Europa a Catalunya’, 6 January 2015 (p. 15).
2. La Vanguardia, ‘El supuesto liderazgo alemán’, 8 December 2013 (p. 40).
3. La Vanguardia, ‘Cómo salir de esta sin dejar el euro’, 7 April 2013 (p. 10 ‘Dinero’
supplement) (co-author Xavier Cuadras Morató).
4. La Vanguardia, ‘Contra la crisis ¿sólo más Europa?’, 1 July 2012 (pp. 14 & 15 ‘Dinero’
supplement) (co-author Xavier Cuadras Morató).
5. El Periódico, ‘Una estrategia equivocada’, 27 December 2011 (p. 4 ‘+valor’ supplement)
6. La Vanguardia, ‘La union fiscal franco-alemana’, 27 November 2011 (p. 8 ‘Dinero’
supplement).
Seminars, lecturers and presentations (2012-2015)
5
1.
‘Contemporary Separatism and Europe’, Biennale Democrazia, Turin, 25-29 March
2015.
2.
‘European Integration as a Subject of Study in Secondary School Education in Catalonia
in 2015’, conference ‘Enseigner l’Europe et l’UE à l’école : méthodes et enjeux’, AixMarseille Université, Ecole supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation, Aix-en-Provence,
12 February 2015
3.
‘Com s’ensenya Europa a les aules de secundària de l’escola catalana: anàlisi de
continguts a les matèries de Ciències Socials a finals del cicle obligatori’, Seminari
d’Història, Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives, Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, 26 January 2015.
4.
‘Naturaleza y límites del liderazgo alemán de la Unión Europea’, openning lecture of the
37th edition of the course on the European Union of the Generalitat de Catalunya (now
organized by the Centre d’Estudis Internacionals with the co-operation of the Secretariat
of Foreigng Affairs of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Co-operation), Barcelona, 12 January 2015.
5.
‘Què hi fan, a Brussel·les?’, Ateneu Barcelonès (series ‘Dijous europeus’), Barcelona, 27
November 2014.
6.
‘The limits of German leadership in the European Union’, symposium ‘25 Years after
the Fall of the Berlin Wall: A New Opportunity for Europe?’, organized by the Institut
Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 21
November 2014.
7.
‘La UE als llibres de text’, II Jornades Ensenyar Europa a les aules, ‘La integració
europea, una prioritat a les aules’, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 29 Septembre
2014.
8.
‘Quin paper juga la història davant l’actual crisi de la Unió Europea?’, closing session
of the Summer Course on ‘Cisis de legitimitat de la Unió Europea’, organized by the
Càtedra Josep Termes, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 11 July 2014.
9.
‘Europeización de Alemania vs. Germanización de Europa: (re)interpretando el pasado
desde la presente crisis de la Union Europea’, research seminar, Institut Universitari
d’Història Jaume Vicens Vives, 29 April 2014.
10. ‘Què pot i què no pot fer el Parlament Europeu pels ciutadans?’, 3 April 2014, Centre
Cívic Golferichs (Barcelona city hall).
11. ‘La importància del Parlament Europeu per a la ciutadania’, 23th ‘Jornada Europea –
Futur polític de la Unió Eurpea: eleccions al Parlament Europeu 2014’, Parlament de
Catalunya, 27 January 2014.
12. ‘El paper dels historiadors davant la Unió Europea avui’, opening lecture of the 36th
edition of the course on the European Union of the Generalitat de Catalunya (now
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organized by the Centre d’Estudis Internacionals with the co-operation of the Secretariat
of Foreigng Affairs of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Co-operation), Barcelona, 13 January 2014.
13. ‘Euro-skepticism on the rise? Implications for the EU reform agenda and the European
Project’, Spanish-German Dialogue, co-organised by the Barcelona Centre for
International Affairs (CIDOB), the German Institute for International and Security
Affairs, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation,
Barcelona, 22 November 2013.
14. ‘Els antecedents del projecte de llei: la construcció del mercat únic comunitari’, seminar
‘El projecte de llei de Garantia de la Unitat de Mercat, a debat’, Barcelona, 6 November
2013, organized by PIMEC Comerç.
15. ‘Alemania, ¿ahorra hasta quebrarse?’, paper delivered at the seminar, “¿Por qué los
alemanes son como son? Alemania desde dentro”, co-organized by the Barcelona Centre
for International Affairs (CIDOB) and the Europäische Akademie Berlin, Barcelona, 25
October 2013.
16. ‘Où en est la France comme puissance européenne?’, Seminar ‘Els reptes europeus al
CIDOB i l'Institut Français: Où en est la France comme puissance européenne?’,
CIDOB, Barcelona, 23 October 2013.
17. ‘A Milwardian approach to the 2007-2013 EU crisis’, ‘Beyond Borders’ Seminar,
Department of History and Classical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim (Norway), 4 June 2013.
18. ‘Historia de la integración europea: un modelo explicativo’, 1st Fernando Rodrigo
Lecture, Departamento de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad
Autónoma, Madrid, 11 March 2013.
19. ‘The Marshall Plan: What Sort of Engine for What Sort of Western Reconstruction?’,
International colloquium ‘Disintegration and Integration in East-Central Europe (1919 post1989)’, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Rumania), 20-23 February 2013.
20. ‘European Integration within the Broader History of Europe: Trends and Problems’,
‘History of Integration – History of Europe: Paradigms, Practices and Trends’ workshop,
European University Institute, Florence (Italy), 23-24 November 2012.
21. ‘Com sortir d’una crisis’, lecture for the members of the Assemblea d’Economia,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 21 November 2012.
22. ‘Cómo salir de una crisis’, Gas Natural Fenosa, Dirección de Estrategia y Desarrollo,
Toledo, 19 October 2012.
23. (together with Victor Gavín Munté) “La Comunidad Europea y la transición española
(1975-1977)”, paper presented at the international conference on ‘Spain and the
European construction’, Real Monasterio de Yuste, Cuacos de Yuste, 16-17 April 2012.
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24. (together with Victor Gavín Munté) “Una nueva aproximación a la dimensión exterior de
la Transición”, paper presented at the 12th Congress of the ‘Asociación de Historiadores
de la Comunicación’, ‘Transición democrática y comunicación internacional’, Barcelona,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 24-25 May 2012.
25. “Welcome to Europe (in the midst of an interesting turmoil)!”, opening lecture to the
UPF Study Abroad programme Spring semester, Barcelona, 18 January 2012.
Visiting Scholar at
 Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
(March-June 2009)
 Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College at Oxford (April-June 1997)
 Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science
(May to September 1995)
 Fulbright Scholar at the Council on West European Studies, Yale University (January
1992-August 1993 and June-September 1994)
On-going research activities
2014-2016
Leader of the project “Teaching ‘Europe’ to enhance EU cohesion: European
integration as a subject of study in secondary school education in the 28
member States”, Ref. Erasmus+ project 553458-EPP-1-2014-1-ES-EPPJMOPROJECT, from 1st October 2014 to 31 September 2016 (€60 000)
2014-2016
Leader of the project “Economia Aplicada i Història Econòmica”, from 1st
January 2014 to 31st December 2016, Ref. 2014 SGR 679 (€34 000).
2014-2016
Advisor to the project “Decisions and Dilemmas: Learning about the EU from
a historical perspective”, conducted by EUROCLIO and financed by the
European Commission (Jean Monnet programme), from 1st September 2014 to
31st August 2016.
2014-2015
Leader of the MOOC project “Why the EU? A Brief History of European
Integration”, Generalitat de Catalunya, Agència de Gestiò d’Ajuts
Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), resolution of 12 December 2013 (Ref.
http://www10.gencat.cat/agaur_web/AppJava/catala/a_beca.jsp?categoria=for
macio&id_beca=20544), from September 2014 to August 2015, €8 000.
2013-2016
Leader of the project “History matters! Learning from the past in times of
crisis”, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (Ref. 542523LLP-1-2013-1-ES-AJM-_CL), from 1st September 2013 to 31 August 2016, €
66 132.
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