Professor Vassilis K. Fouskas

Professor of International Relations

Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations, the founding Director of the Institute for Conflict, Security and Development Studies (CSDS) and the founding editor of the refereed periodical Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge, quarterly since 1998).

He read international history, politics and economics at the Universities of Athens, Perugia and London. He has been awarded two doctoral titles, from Panteion University, Athens, and from Queen Mary University of London. He taught in many Universities in the UK and abroad and his work has been translated into more than 10 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Turkish, Greek and Slovene. Vassilis was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow in 2002-03, a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University in 2005 and a recipient of grants from the EU’s Jean Monnet fund, the British Academy and the Carnegie Foundation. He has written extensively on US grand strategy in Europe and Asia, global political economy, transatlantic relations, the new geo-politics of the Balkans and the Greater Middle East, and the Cyprus issue. Using Marxisant, Keynesian and post-structuralist discourses, his work problematizes the (Western-led) processes of globalisation and European integration and sees a fundamental power-shift to the new emerging economies of the ‘global East’. His forthcoming book on the Greek and Euro-zone debt crises illustrates further this stand. He is also currently editing for Routledge a collection of essays on the Politics of International Political Economy. He is a regular contributor to openDemocracy.net and publicserviceeurope.com, and serves as contributing editor to globalfaultlines.com. He is a Sunday columnist in the Cypriot daily The Citizen (O Politis), and a regular reviewer of books for The Political Quarterly. He has appeared many times in Chinese, US, Italian, Cypriot, Turkish, British, Greek, Slovenian, Bosnian and other countries’ media outlets (radio, TV and newspaper interviews and contributions)

Selected Publications 

Books

(with Bülent Gökay) The Fall of the US Empire; Global Fault-lines and the Shifting Imperial Order, 2012

(with Alex O. Tackie) Cyprus; the Post-Imperial Constitution, 2009

(sole editor) The Politics of Conflict, 2007 (hardback) and 2010 (paperback)

(with Bülent Gökay) The New American Imperialism; Bush’s War on Terror and Blood for Oil, 2005

Zones of Conflict, US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East, 2003

Italy, Europe, the Left, 1998 

Journal Articles

His peer reviewed publications appeared, among others, in Debatte, Contemporary Politics, Mediterranean Quarterly, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, European Security, Contemporary European History, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

Teaching

Vassilis teaches post-graduate courses in international relations, political economy, security and conflict studies, and the core methodology module on the Masters programs of the University.