Sean Deel

Sean Deel is a researcher at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was part of the Subterranean Politics in Europe research project, studying activist and campaigning groups in London.

London: uncovering European identity in a global city?

The absence of Europe on any agenda - as an object of critique, a space of solidarity, or a target of reform - seemed to suggest that, while London may be a global city, it is not, politically at least, a European one. Is this really the case?

By Tamsin Murray-Leach and Sean Deel

/ 12 Oct 2012

The European Citizens Initiative: a tool of its time?

The ECI is the first transnational direct democratic tool in history. But as we speak the dream of a ‘Europe of Citizens’ is being replaced by a (for some, already nightmarish) Europe divided between lenders and debtors.

By Sean Deel

/ 9 Oct 2012