Political Science Faculty and Staff
Ioannis Stivachtis
Assistant Professor and International Studies Program Director
Ph.D., University of Lancaster, 1996
Ph.D., University of Lancaster, 1996
His research interests include the expansion of international society, the expansion of regional international societies, the relations between overlapping regional international societies, political/democratic conditionality and international order, international society and the civilizing process, EU enlargement, and EU foreign, security and defense policy. He teaches in the areas of international politics, global/international security, and international organization and global governance and has received teaching awards from various academic institutions.
He is member of the Academic Committee and Head of the Politics and International Affairs Research Unit of ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research); Scientific Expert of the Research Directorate General of the European Commission; member of the English School of International Relations and Secretary of the English School (ES) section of the International Studies Association (ISA); member of the Executive Council of the Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies (CISS) section of the ISA; and member of the Society for the Study of Difference (SSD). He is International Board member of the Research Institute for European & American Studies (RIEAS) and associate reviewer of many journals.
He is the author of Political Conditionality: The 'Standard of Civilization' in the Contemporary International Society , forthcoming, Co-operative Security and Non-Offensive Defense in the Zone of War (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001); and The Enlargement of International Society (London: Macmillan, 1998); co-author of Non-Offensive Defense in the Middle East (New York: United Nations Publications 1998); editor of Global Issues: Perspectives and Controversies (Athens: ATINER 2008), International Order in a Globalizing World (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), The State of European Integration (Aldershot: Ashgate 2007), International Governance & International Security (Athens: ATINER, 2005); and Current Issues in European Integration (Athens: ATINER, 2004); and co-editor of The Economic Dimension of Turkey's Accession to the European Union (forthcoming, The University of Toronto Press), EU-Turkish Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities and Constraints (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008), and European Union's Mediterranean Enlargement (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002). He has published several chapters in edited volumes and articles in various journals.
His previous academic and professional appointments include Professor, Academic Dean and International Relations Program Head at IFM University (Switzerland); Professor at Schiller International University (Switzerland); Visiting Associate Professor at The International University-Vienna (Austria); Visiting Professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy (Switzerland); Research Associate and consultant with the Austrian Federal Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Culture & Education; Research Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR); and Senior Researcher at ARIS Research & Consulting Office for Security Studies (Austria). He has also taught in various diplomatic and military academies. Finally, he is member of professional organizations such as APSA, ISA, BISA, and EUSA.
Email: Ioannis Stivachtis