Mark Haugaard is lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at NUI, Galway and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute Florence (2001-2). He is author of The Constitution of Power (Manchester UP, 1997); Structures, Restructuration and Social Power (Aldershot, 1992), co-editor of Power in Contemporary Politics (Sage 2000) and has written numerous articles on nationalism.