JOHN MCCORMICK is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA. He is also on the faculty of the EC Center of Excellence at Indiana University Bloomington, is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Sussex European Institute, and has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, and at the University of Exeter in the UK. He is author of 11 books, including The Global Environmental Movement, Environmental Policy in the European Union and Understanding the European Union.