John Crowley is the Chief of Section of Research, Policy and Foresight and the Sector for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO. In addition, he is Senior Programme Specialist at UNESCO and editor of the International Social Science Journal.
He was formerly (1995-2002) a research fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He is the author of Sans épines, la rose. Tony Blair, unmodèle pour l’Europe ?, Paris, La Découverte, 1999 ; and editor of Pacifications, réconciliations [Cultures & Conflits, n° 40 et 41, 2001]and Tony Blair, le nouveau travaillisme et la troisième voie, Paris, La Documentation française, 1999. His publications on issues of identity, diversity and multiculturalism include: “The national dimension of citizenship in T. H. Marshall”, Citizenship Studies, 2(2) 1998;“La transparence du politique et ses limites: négociations d’intérêts et pluralisme ‘moral’ ”, Politique et Sociétés, 17(3), 1998; “The politics of belonging: some theoretical considerations”, in Adrian Favell & Andrew Geddes (dir.), The Politics of Belonging: Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary Europe, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999; “L’identité collective comme configuration politique:l’exemple du racisme”, Cahiers politiques, n° 5, 2000; “Les usages de la culture, ou les limites sociologiques du multiculturalismenormatif”, in Hélène Greven-Borde & Jean Tournon (dir.), Les identités en débat : intégration ou multiculturalisme ?, Paris, L’Harmattan,2000; “The political participation of ethnic minorities”, International Political Science Review, 22(1) 2001; “Citizenship in a local key: aview from Paris” (with Riva Kastoryano) and “Postscript : citizenship and its modes” in Jean Tillie & Alisdair Rogers (eds), MulticulturalPolicies and Modes of Citizenship, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001; The Adjudication of Ethnic Claims, CERI “Questions de recherche /Research in Question”, n° 3, 2000.