Janet Laible is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University, with research interests in the territorial politics of the United Kingdom, nationalism, and the European Union, and with additional interests in science and space policy. Professor Laible is the author of Separatism and Sovereignty in the New Europe (Palgrave Macmillan) and the co-editor of Europe After Brexit with Scott Greer (Manchester University Press, forthcoming) and European Responses to Globalization with Henri J. Barkey (Elsevier/JAI). She has also published on social policy and Belgian politics. Professor Laible received a Ph.D. from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Executive Director of the British Politics Group, a related group of the American Political Science Association.