Name one of the academic specialties of Leo Derocher.
Age of Enlightenment The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in French: "le Siècle des Lumières" , '"the Century of Lights"' ; and in , "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".
Thomas Diez Thomas Diez (born 2 February 1970) is a German professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen. He was formerly Professor of International Relations Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he was Head of Department from 2005-2008. Diez earned his PhD at the University of Mannheim. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute where he worked with Barry Buzan and Ole Waever. He studies international relations theory, European integration and conflict transformation and is best known for his contributions to the debate on the European Union's normative power. Books he has edited or co-edited include "The EU and the Cyprus Conflict: Modern Conflict, Postmodern Union" (Manchester University Press, 2002), "European Integration Theory" (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2009) and "The European Union and Border Conflicts" (Cambridge University Press, 2008), "Cyprus: A Conflict at the Crossroads" (Manchester University Press, 2009) and "An Introduction to International Relations Theory: Perspectives and Themes" (Pearson, 2010).