Hello and welcome to my website! 

I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences and Professions of London Metropolitan University. My area of specialisation is international relations and foreign policy analysis, with a particular interest in the impact of ideologies and party competition on processes at the international level. 

My work has been published most recently in journals like International Affairs, International Studies Review and European Union Politics. A full list of my publications can be found here.

My first book was titled Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies and it examined how changes in the structure of party competition bring about foreign policy change. 

I am one of the first scholars to analyze the international dimensions of populism and a leading voice in a thriving research programme studying populism, IR and foreign policy. Recently I co-edited an edited volume on populist ideology and a handbook on populism and foreign policy. 

I currently pursue a new research project on the international sources and implications of the global transformation of right-wing politics. Latest publications from my new research can be found here and here.

Before joining London Met I held positions at LSE, King's College London, and the Weatherhead Center at Harvard. In 2020-21 I was Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, where I also got my PhD in 2012. 

Apart from my academic work, I conduct policy research on European politics, populism and the crisis of democracy. Between 2015-21 I was Associate Fellow of the Europe Programme of Chatham House. I am a Research Associate at the Martens Centre, where I host the video series 'Bridge the Channel', commenting on EU-UK relations.  

I am the head of the Hellenic Conservative Policy Institute, a think tank created to study, understand and disseminate conservative political thought in Greece. The institute publishes books, organizes talks and engages in public debates. You can find more here.

I often write op-eds and offer commentary to international media, and I am an international affairs columnist for a number of major Greek newspapers. I am happy to answer media requests.