Ακαδηµαϊκή εργασία

a. Selected/Representative Publications

Monographs

2011-2020:

  • Adamides, C. (2020). Securitization and Desecuritization Processes in Protracted Conflicts: The Case of Cyprus. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 200pp.
  • Charalambous, G. (2016). European Integration and the Communist Dilemma: Communist Party Responses to Europe in Greece, Cyprus and Italy. Routledge.
  • Hadjiathanasiou M. (2020, forthcoming). Propaganda and the Cyprus Revolt: Rebellion, Counter-Insurgency, and the Media, 1955-59. London: Bloomsbury Publishing | Academic Division.
  • Emilianides, A. and Ioannou, C. (2019). Labour Law in Cyprus 2019. 2nd Revised and updated Edition, Hague: Wolters Kluwer, published as part of the International Encyclopaedia of Laws Series.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2017). The Greek Cypriot Nationalist Right in the Era of British Colonialism: Emergence, Mobilisation, Transformations of Right-Wing Party Politics. Springer. Series: Contributions to Political Science.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2016). The Radical Left in Government: The Cases of SYRIZA and AKEL. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mirbagheri, F. (2012). War & Peace in Islam: A Critique of Islamic/ist Political Discourses. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Theophanous, A. (2016). Governance and the Political Economy of a Federal Cyprus (in Greek). I. Sideris Press, Athens.
  • Theophanous, A. (2011). Perspectives on the Critical Challenges Facing Cyprus (in Greek). Livanis Press, Athens.
  • Σολωμού, A. A. και Πέτρου, Α. (επ.) (υπό έκδοση, 2020). Φιλοσοφία: Ένα Σχολείο Ελευθερίας (Philosophy: A School of Freedom). UNESCO and UNESCO Chair, University of Nicosia.

2021-2025:

  • Charalambous, G. (2022). The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties since the 1960s. Pluto Press.
  • Ioannou, C. and Emilianides, A. C. (2024). Labour Law in Cyprus, 3rd Revised and updated Edition, Hague: Wolters Kluwer, 280pp.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2025). Κόκκινα Ίχνη. Δεκαπέντε ιστορικά αποτυπώματα του Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος Κύπρου [Red Marks: Fifteen Historical Traces of the Communist Party of Cyprus]. Nicosia: Rizes Publications.
  • Kontos, M. (2025). US Security Interests in the ‘New Eastern Mediterranean’: Balancing Russia in a Post-Unipolar World (1st ed.). Routledge.

Edited Volumes

2011-2020:

  • Charalambous, G. and Ioannou, G. (2019). Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe. Routledge Series in Radical History and Politics.
  • Faustmann, H. (2011). An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus. I.B. Tauris.
  • Faustmann, H. et al. (eds.) (2017). The Role of Education in Multicultural Cyprus. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Solomou, Ε. A. and Hatzisoteriou, C. (επ.) (2019). Βελτιώνοντας το Σχολείο και τη Διδασκαλία σε Συνθήκες Πολιτισμικού Πλουραλισμού (Improving the School and Teaching in Conditions of Cultural Pluralism). Εκδόσεις Διάδραση.
  • Solomou, Ε. A. (editorial advisor) for Koudounaris, A. (2018). Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Cypriots 1800-1920 (Vol. 1 and 2). Unesco Chair of the University of Nicosia.

2021-2025:

  • Adamides, C. and Fokaides, C. (eds.) (2024). Η Κύπρος στην εποχή των πολυκρίσεων: 24 ερωταπαντήσεις για τις μεγάλες προκλήσεις του αύριο (in Greek) [Cyprus in the era of polycrisis: 24 questions and answers for tomorrow’s big challenges]. Hippasus Publishing.
  • Ioannou, C., Emilianides, A. C., Kourtis, D. and Vanezou, S. (ed.) (2022). The Institution of the House of Representatives. House of Representatives and School of Law of the University of Nicosia, 342pp. – in Greek.
  • Ioannou, C. and Emilianides, A. (eds.) (2021). Struggle for Survival: Aspects of Cypriot Political History after 1974. Nea Estia and Hippasus Publishing, Nicosia, 262pp. – in Greek.

Articles in Refereed Journals

2011-2020:

  • Adamides, C. (2018). ‘The Challenges of Formulating National Security Strategies (NSS) in the Presence of Overarching Existential Threats’, Cyprus Review, 30 (1): 71-94.
  • Christou, O. and Adamides, C. (2013). ‘Energy Securitization and Desecuritization in the New Middle East’, Security Dialogue, 44: 507-522.
  • Charalambous, G., Conti, N. and Pedrazzani, A. (2018). ‘The Political Contestation of European integration in Southern Europe: A Story of Friction among and within Parties’, Party Politics, 24 (1): 39-51.
  • Charalambous, G. and Ioannou, G. (2017). ‘Party Systems, Party-society Linkages and Contentious Acts: Cyprus in a Comparative Southern European Perspective’, Mobilization, 22 (1): 97-119.
  • Charalambous, G. and Lamprianou, I. (2017). ‘The (Non) Particularities of West European Radical Left Party Supporters: Comparing Left Party Families’, European Political Science Review, 19 (3): 375-400.
  • Hadjiathanasiou M. (2018). ‘”A Most Valuable Propaganda Medium”: The British Council in Cyprus (1935-1955)’, Xroniko magazine (published with Politis’s Sunday newspaper, in Greek), Vol. D’, Issue 67.
  • Hadjiathanasiou M. (2018). ‘”Circling Round the Economic Sun of Britain”: Cyprus and Its Participation in the British Empire Exhibitions’, The Cyprus Review, 30 (1): 275-296.
  • Hadjiathanasiou M. (2018). ‘Colonial Rule, Cultural Relations and the British Council in Cyprus, 1935-1955’, The Journal of Commonwealth and Imperial History, Vol. 46, Issue 6, pp. 1096-1124.
  • Dimarellis, K. and Ioannou, C. (2018). “Equal Treatment of Women and Men in Employment: An Analysis of the Cypriot and the Greek Legal Frameworks”, The Cyprus Review, 20 (1): 259-274.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2020, forthcoming). ‘Patterns of Euroscepticism in the Cypriot Political Parties and Public Opinion (2009-2019)’, South European Society and Politics.
  • Katsourides, Y. and Ellinas, A. (2013). ‘Organizational Continuity and Electoral Endurance: The Communist party of Cyprus’, West European Politics, Vol. 36, Issue 4, pp. 859-882.
  • Kentas, G. (2018). ‘A Critical Assessment of the Cyprus Protocol Annexed to the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement: The Consensual Continuation of a Metacolonial Realm’, The Cyprus Review, 30(1): 317-348.
  • Kirlappos, A. (2018). ‘Reforming Local government in the Republic of Cyprus: Resistance and Differentiations’, The Cyprus Review, 30(2), 101-122.
  • Kirlappos, A. (2017). ‘Local government in the Republic of Cyprus: Path dependent Europeanization’, The Cyprus Review, 29, 89-109.
  • Kirlappos, A. (forthcoming). ‘Limits of Europeanization at the Municipal Level: Evidence from the Republic of Cyprus’, Local Government Studies.
  • Kontos, M. (2018). ‘Power Games in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus: The Trouble with Turkey’s Coercive Diplomacy’, The Cyprus Review, 30 (1): 51-70.
  • Kontos, M. (2016). ‘Hegemony and Balance of Power in the Middle East’, Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Review, 2: 11-28.
  • Kontos, M. (2019). ‘Cyprus and the Great Powers: An Evaluation of Russian-Cypriot Relations in the New Eastern Mediterranean Environment’, Journal of Law and Administration, 4 (53): 17-27.
  • Faustmann, H. and Sozen, A. (2019). ‘Cyprus’, in: European Journal of Political Research. Political Data Yearbook 2018, Vol. 58.
  • Mirbagheri, F. (2016). ‘Human Agency, Reason and Justice’, International Studies Review, 18 (1): 166-169.
  • Mirbagheri, F. (2013). ‘The Iranian Revolution and Political Realism’, Turkish Policy Quarterly, 12 (1): 77-85.
  • Σολωμού, Α. Α. και Αντωνίου, Μ. (2019). ‘Η διδασκαλία της ιστορίας στη δευτεροβάθμια εκπαίδευση της Κύπρου από την Αγγλοκρατία μέχρι σήμερα’ (The teaching of history in Cyprus’s secondary education from Anglocracy until today), Ηώς (Ειδική Επετειακή Έκδοση).
  • Theophanous, A. (2017). ‘Revisiting the Cyprus Question and the Way Forward’, Turkish Policy Quarterly – Protracted Conflicts in Turkey’s Neighborhood: Between Cold Peace and Hot War, Volume 15 (4): 37-50.
  • Theophanous, A. (2018). ‘Cyprus in Search of a New Economic Paradigm’, The Cyprus Review, 30 (2): 213-242.
  • Theophanous, A. (2019). ‘The Intercommunal Negotiations After 1974 and Future Prospects’, The Cyprus Review, 1 (31): 281-309.

2021-2025:

  • Adamides, C. (2024). ‘The 2023 Cypriot Presidential Elections: Shifts in Domestic and Regional Dynamics’, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 62.
  • Charalambous, G., Conti, N. and Pedrazzani, N. (2025). “Τhe Policy Profile of Populist Parties in Europe: Policy Purposeful with the Competitive Advantage of Crises”, Politics. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/026339572513210
  • Charalambous, G., Conti, N. and Pedrazzani, A. (2023). “Issue Salience and Party Competition in Southern Europe before and after the Euro Crisis: the Primacy of the Economy holding back Cultural Issues”, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 33(4), pp. 581-600.
  • Charalambous, G. (2021). “(Il)liberal Organisation? Internal Party Democracy on the European Radical Left”, PArtecipazione e COnflitto, 14 (1), pp. 411-434.
  • Charalambous, G. (2021). “Reclaiming Radicalism: Discursive Wars and the Left”, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 19 (1), pp. 212-230.
  • Ioannou, G. and Charalambous, G. (2024). “Critical Junctures, Ideological Continuity and Change in Western Europe: Comparing the Pandemic and the Global Financial Crises”, Global Society, 39(2), pp. 130–157.
  • Faustmann, H. and Sozen, A. (2023). “Cyprus”, in: European Journal of Political Research. Political Data Yearbook 2022, Vol. 62, pp. 87-111.
  • Faustmann, H. and Sozen, A. (2024). “Cyprus”, in: European Journal of Political Research. Political Data Yearbook 2023, Vol. 63:2, pp. 86-104.
  • Ioannou, C., Emilianides, A. and Kourtis, D. (2022). ‘Introduction: Cyprus and the Commonwealth: 1961-2021’, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (Routledge), Vol. 111, Issue 1: pp. 1-5.
  • Ioannou, C. and Emilianides, A. C. (2022). ‘Commonwealth and Cyprus after EU accession’, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (Routledge), Vol. 111, Issue 1: pp. 40-52.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2025). ‘Mobilizing underground: the case of the Cypriot communist party AKEL in Colonial Cyprus (1955-1959)’, Journal of History, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13442
  • Katsourides, Y. and Ioannides, N. (2024). ‘Intra-party leadership contests and effect on levels of satisfaction with democracy on party voters’, Government and Opposition, Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2024, First View, pp. 1–22, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.27.
  • Katsourides, Y. and Ioannides, N. (2024). ‘The radical left and its political communication. An examination of the campaign activities of radical left candidates in sixteen Europe countries’, Party Politics, DOI: 10.1177/13540688241238876.
  • Katsourides, Y. and Charalambous, G. (2024). ‘Perspectives of the Antifa movement in Cyprus’, PArtecipazione e COnflitto, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 113-131.
  • Katsourides, Y. and Savvides, L. (2024). ‘Radicalization to the right, secular (ish) pandemic politics and the normalization of the Greek Cypriot’, Nations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 3, pp. 441–457.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2024). ‘Intra-Party Struggles and the Making of the Cypriot Left’, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 103-124.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2021). ‘The Polarization of Political Conflict in the Greek Cypriot Community in the 1940s-1950s: A Fight for Hegemony’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 419-438.
  • Katsourides, Y. and Agathocleous, C. (2023). ‘Intra-party balance of power: Cartelisation versus communist organisational tradition in the Cypriot radical left AKEL’, South European Society and Politics, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 47-73.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2022). ‘The Silent Electoral Earthquake in Cyprus: A Crisis of Political Representation’, South European Society and Politics, Vol 26, no 3, pp. 413-436.
  • Katsourides, Y. and Pachita, E. (2021). ‘Normalizing far right party rhetoric: the impact of media populist frames and coverage on the electoral prospects of far-right parties in the case of Cyprus’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 31, Issue 1, pp. 132–150, https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2021.1951184. Published online 5 July 2021.
  • Kontos, M. (2024). “Adaptation and transition: the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Cypriot-Russian relations,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, online publication December 26.
  • Kontos, M. and Georgiou, E. (2023). “US foreign and security policy in contemporary Eastern Mediterranean: the return of great power politics in a changing regional environment”, International Politics, 60, pp. 1014–1029.
  • Kontos, M. (2023). “State Power, Ideology, and Societal Beliefs in Cyprus: How Society in a Small State Perceives Uneven Power Relations,” The Cyprus Review, Vol. 35:1, pp. 29-57.
  • Kontos, M. and Tziarras, Z. (2023). “Reckoning with ‘New’ Turkey: Modes of US Reaction to Unwanted Policy Shifts in the Middle East,” Digests of Middle East Studies, Vol. 32:4, pp. 262-280.

Book Chapters

2011-2020:

  • Adamides, C. (2015). ‘A comfortable and routine conflict’, in Ker-Lindsay J. (eds) Resolving Cyprus: New Approaches to Conflict Resolution. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 5-15.
  • Adamides, C. (2014). ‘Negative perceptions of foreign actors: an integral part of conflict perpetuating routines’ in Kontos M, Panayiotides N, Alexandrou H, Theodoulou S.C. (eds) Great Power Politics in Cyprus: Foreign Interventions and Domestic Perceptions. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 197-222.
  • Charalambous, G. (2020). ‘The Communist Left’, in K. Featherstone and D. Sotiropoulos (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • Faustmann, H. (2017). “The Struggle for Recognition and Political Rights of the Small Ethnic and Religious Minorities at the End of British Colonial Rule in Cyprus”, in: Anastasia Yiangou and Antigone Heraclidou (eds). Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities: Essays in Honour of Robert Holland. Routledge, Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, pp. 88-111.
  • Faustmann, H. (2020). ‘Die geteilte Insel: Annäherung und Wiedervereinigungsversuche seit 1974 bis heute’ (The Divided Island: Rapprochement and Attempts at Reunification from 1974 to the present day), in Stefan Brener/Erwin Schmidl (eds.): Wegweiser zur Geschichte Zyperns (Guide to the History of Cyprus) (Schönigh Verlag).
  • Christou, Ο. and Ioannou, C. (2019). ‘The Restructuring of the Cypriot Welfare System: Will the New Provision System Prove to be a Success?’, in S. Blum, J. Kuhlmann, and K. Schubert (eds), Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems. Abingdon Oxon/New York: Routledge, pp. 73−90.
  • Ioannou, C. and Charalambous-Katsaros, A. (2019). ‘Cyprus’ in N. Robertson (ed), The Labour and Employment Disputes Review. London: Law Business Research.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2020 forthcoming). ‘The Radical Left: SYRIZA’, in K. Featherstone and D. Sotiropoulos (eds) The Oxford Handbook on Modern Greek Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kentas, G. (2020). ‘Cyprus: A Pro-European Attitude, but Skepticism Still Holds Strong’, in Kaeding, Μ., Pollak, J., Schmidt, P. (eds.) Euroscepticism and The Future of Europe (London: Palgrave McMillan).
  • Kentas, G. (2020). ‘A Future Europe for Cyprus: A Struggle to Overcome the Utopianism of the 1990s and Come to Terms with the Tough Pragmatism of the 2020s’, in Kaeding, Μ., Pollak, J., Schmidt, P. The Future of Europe. London: Palgrave McMillan, 2019.
  • Kentas, G. (2019). ‘Η πρόκληση για στρατηγικό σχεδιασμό στην κυπριακή δημόσια υπηρεσία: πέντε χρόνια μετά την κρίση’ (The challenge for strategic planning in the Cypriot public service), in Kontiades, X., Emilianides, A. and Anthopoulos, C. (eds.) Η Δημόσια Διοίκηση μετά την Κρίση (Public Administration after the Crisis). Αθήνα: Σάκκουλας.
  • Kentas, G. (2019). ‘Το Δίκαιο της Επιβολής και η Επιβολή του Δικαίου: Μια Επανεκτίμηση του Διαλόγου των Μηλίων στον Θουκυδίδη’, in Mitas, S., Stratilatis, K., Koumasides, I. (eds.) Η Ισχύς και το Δίκαιο (Power and the Law). Νομικές Εκδόσεις Hippasus, Αθήνα – Λευκωσία.
  • Kirlappos, A., Philippou, P., Agapiou-Josephides, K. (2019). ‘Austerity Measures and Local Public Services in Cyprus: Coping with Challenges Old and New and Reinforcing Historical Continuities’, in Lippi A., Tsekos T. (eds) Local Public Services in Times of Austerity across Mediterranean Europe: Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kontos, M. (2018). ‘Greek Cypriot Perceptions of the UN’, in Adamides, C., Kontos, M., Michael, M., Vural, U., (eds.), Cyprus Roadmap for Peace: A critical Interrogation of the Conflict, Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Kontos, M. (2014). ‘Great Power Politics in Cyprus: Foreign Interventions and Domestic Perceptions’, in Kontos, M., Theodoulou, S-C., Panayiotides, N., Alexandrou, Ch., (eds.), Great Power Politics in Cyprus: Foreign Interventions and Domestic Perceptions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Mirbagheri, F. (2010). ‘Islam and Liberal Peace’ in Mirbagheri, F. et al. (eds.) The Challenge of Globalization: Education for Tolerance, Democracy and Sustainable Development, Sage Publications, 2010.
  • Σολωμού, Α. Α., Χατζησωτηρίου, Χ. Και Αντωνίου, Μ. (2019). ‘Σύγχρονες τάσεις στη διδασκαλία της Ιστορίας: Αναπτύσσοντας τη διαπολιτισμική συνείδηση’ (Modern trends in teaching history: Developing intercultural consciousness), σε Σολωμού, Α. Α. και Χατζησωτηρίου, Χ. (επ.). Βελτιώνοντας το Σχολείο και τη Διδασκαλία σε Συνθήκες Πολιτισμικού Πλουραλισμού. (Improving the School and Teaching in Conditions of Cultural Pluralism). Εκδόσεις Διάδραση.
  • Theophanous, A. (2016). ‘Cyprus: From an Economic Miracle to a Systemic Collapse and its Aftermath’, in L. Briguglio (Ed.), Small States and the European Union: Economic Perspectives. Routledge, pp. 28-49.
  • Theophanous, A. (2011). ‘Ethnic Identity and the Nation-State in the Era of Globalization: The Case of Cyprus’, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 24, (1-2), pp. 45-56.

2021-2025:

  • Adamides, C. and Christodoulou, J. (2022). ‘Gender mainstreaming in the RoC foreign policy’, in The Foreign Policy of the Republic of Cyprus: the Age of Maturity? Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Charalambous, G. (2023). “The Greek Cypriot far right space, its history and ELAM’s trajectory”, in K. Kondor and M. Little (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe. Routledge.
  • Ioannou, G. and Charalambous, G. (2022). “Cyprus’ handling of Covid-19: Exacerbating authoritarianism and the politics of the pandemic”, in K. Lyggard et al. (eds.) Governments Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Palgrave Mcmillan.
  • Ioannou, C., Angelides, P., Emilianides, A. C., and Hajisoteriou, C. (2024). ‘Δυσμενείς Διακρίσεις στο Κυπριακό Εργατικό Δίκαιο’, in Αντιχάρισμα στον Αιμίλιο Α. Σολωμού eds. Λευκωσία: Hippasus, pp. 67-83.
  • Faustmann, H. (2021). “Ο Αγώνας για την Αναγνώριση και τα Πολιτικά Δικαιώματα των Μικρών Εθνικών και Θρησκευτικών Μειονοτήτων στο τέλος της Βρετανικές Αποικιοκρατίας στην Κύπρο” in: A. Panagiotou et al. (eds), Αντιχάρισμα στον Αιμίλιο Α. Σολομού. Ιστορία και Εκπαίδευση, Nicosia: Hippasus, pp. 97-123.
  • Kontos, M. (2025). “The International System and the Lausanne Treaty: How Systemic Transition in 1871-1945 Shaped a New Greek-Turkish Balance, [Το Διεθνές Σύστημα και η Συνθήκη της Λωζάνης: Πώς η Συστημική Μετάβαση της Περιόδου 1871-1945 Διαμόρφωσε μια Νέα Ελληνοτουρκική Ισορροπία],” in Zenonas Tziarras (ed.) The Eastern Mediterranean 100 Years after the Lausanne Treaty: Historical, Political and Geopolitical Aspects. Nicosia: Hippasus, pp. 49-66 (in Greek).
  • Katsourides, Y. (2024). ‘The European Elections in Cyprus: A Political landscape in flux and the Youtuber Effect’, in Beaudonnet, Laurie, Belot, Céline, Le Gall, Cal, Van Ingelgom, Virginie, Eds. ‘Special Issue -Taking stock of the 2024 European elections in the 27 Member States: Perspectives on Electoral Trends and Political Competition’, Politique européenne, n°86 (2024-4).
  • Katsourides, Y. (2024). ‘Το ενωτικό αίτημα, η Αριστερά και οι Τουρκοκύπριοι’ [Union with Greece, the Cypriot Left and the Turkish Cypriots], in P. Angelides, A. Emilianides, C. Ioannou and C. Hadjisoteriou (eds) Αντιχάρισμα στον Αιμίλιο Σολωμού. Ιστορία και Εκπαίδευση [Anticharisma to Emilios Solomou. History and Education], pp. 61-82, Hippasus Publications, Nicosia.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2023). ‘Cyprus’, in F. Escalona March, L. and Keith, D. (Eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Left Parties in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 119-145.
  • Katsourides, Y. (2023). ‘Change in continuity? A Comparison of Parliamentary Representation in Greece and Cyprus in the Background of the Economic Crisis’, in M. Kakepaki and F. Kountouri (Eds) Parliamentary Elites in Transition. Political Representation in Greece, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231-259.

b. Selected/Representative Projects

  • Adamides, C.
    • 2019-2021. Politicization of Identities in Diaspora: Cosmopolitanism & Conflict Discourses. Research Promotion Foundation (Partner). Researcher and Coordinator for UNRF’s partnership. P.I. Dr. C. Charalambous (EUC).
    • 2018-2020. Empowering Immigrants’ EU Social and Civic Participation Through Innovative Media for Education’. Erasmus + (Partner). Researcher and Project Coordinator for Diplomatic Academy partnership. P.I. N. Marques (Factor Social).
    • 2010-2012. Research Promotion Foundation (RPF): “The Routinization and Institutionalization of Securitization and the Impact of Ethnic Conflicts: The Cyprus Case”. P.I. C. Adamides (UNIC).
  • Charalambous, G.
    • 2017-ongoing. ‘Political Party Data Base (PPDB)’, Data co-op and Research Hub, http://www.politicalpartydb.org/about/. Principal Investigators: Paul Webb (University of Sussex), Susan Scarrow (University of Houston), Thomas Poguntke (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf). Own role: Data collection on Greece, Member of research group.
    • 2016-2019. PTDC/IVC-CPO/1864/2014, ‘Da Representação à Legitimação? Partidos Políticos e Grupos de Interesses na Europa do Sul’ [From representation to Legitimacy? Political parties and interest groups in southern Europe]. Portuguese Research Council. Principal Investigator: Marco Lisi (New University Lisbon). Own role: Member of Research Team.
    • (with M. Hatay). 2015-2016. ‘Youth Project – The post-Annan Generation: Student Attitudes towards the Cyprus Problem’, Internally funded Research Project, Peace Research Institute Oslo.
  • Hadjiathanasiou, M.
    • 2019-2021. Project: ‘Power through Attraction: British, Greek and Turkish Cultural Diplomacy in Cyprus, 1945-1974’ [Acronym: CuDiCy; Grant Agreement ID: 867425], Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Widening Research Fellowship awarded by the European Commission to Dr Maria Hadjiathanasiou, under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme. Supervisor: Prof. Hubert Faustmann.
  • Katsourides, Y.
    • 2015-2017. ‘The Choice for Europe since Maastricht: Member States’ Preferences for Economic and Fiscal Integration’. Project leaders: Sonja Puntscher Riekmann and Fabio Wasserfallen from the Salzburg Centre for European Union Studies. Professor Leonardo Morlino (LUISS Guido Carli) was the coordinator for southern Europe Horizon 2020 Call “EURO-1-2014.
    • 2014-2015. ‘Confronting Hate Speech, Behaviour and Crimes’ European Economic Area (EEA) Grants. Scientific/Project investigator.
    • 2011-2013. ‘The influence of the current economic crisis on the elections for the European Parliament of 2009 in Cyprus and Greece’. Project leader: Kostas Gouliamos European University Cyprus Cyprus Research.
  • Kentas, G.
  • Kontos, M.
    • 2019. EP/EXPO/B/FWC/2019-01. ‘Tender for a framework contract to provide foreign policy expertise to the European Parliament’s Directorate General for External Policies in the field of Southern Neighbourhood and Greater Middle East’ (Lot 2). Proposal submitted by the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA). Member of Team of Experts.
    • 2014. ‘National Intelligence Authorities and Surveillance in the EU” European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights First Elements Euroconsultants and The Cyprus Institute for State and Church Relations consortium (Director of CISC, data collector/report writer)
    • 2012. ‘Redress Mechanisms and Their Use” European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. First Elements Euroconsultants and The Cyprus Institute for State and Church Relations consortium (Director of CISC, data collector/report writer)
  • Theophanous, A.
    • 2012-2015. ‘Unit of Federal Studies and Governance in Biethnic and Multiethnic States’, Research Promotion Foundation in Cyprus, December 2012-May 2015
    • 2008-2013. ‘Understanding European Integration’, Lifelong Learning Programme, Jean Monnet Programme.
    • 2015. (with N. Epaminonda and K. E. Georgiou). ‘The EAC and the Prospect of Privatization: For and against and other Options’ (in Greek), Centre for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia.

c. Research Centres and Publishing

The Department collaborates with Research Centres connected with our research interests and expertise. We also work with in-house journals that help us develop our niche on Eastern Mediterranean studies and contribute to local and international dialogue on socio-economic and political issues across methodological traditions, geographical areas and analytical perspectives. The Department’s institutional collaborations include:

Research Centres:

Journals:

d. Current Doctoral Students

PhD in International Relations and European Studies:

  • Petros Petrikkos
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Constantinos Adamides
    • Provisional Thesis Title: Visualising Hybrid Threats in Small States: Changing Ontological Security Perceptions for Cyprus and Lebanon
  • Sotiris Drakos
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Andreas Theophanous
    • Provisional Thesis Topic: Η ΠΕΡΙΠΕΤΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝΔΙΣΜΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΟ: Ο ΔΙΠΟΛΙΣΜΟΣ ΩΣ ΤΡΟΧΟΠΕΔΗ
  • Martyna Kolodziej Elerian
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Emilios A. Solomou
    • Provisional Thesis Title: A mixed methods study to explore perceptions of school actors on intercultural and international education in international English language private schools in Cyprus, in pursuit of good practices that facilitate development of positive intercultural relations in schools.
  • Andrea Petranyi
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Andreas Theophanous
    • Provisional Thesis Title: Portraits of Cyprus’ Enclaved Villages: Soft and Hard Ethnic Cleansing
  • George Bitsis
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Michalis Kontos
    • Provisional Thesis Title: Η αξιολόγηση των στρατηγικών επιλογών της Ελλάδας και της Τουρκίας στο Κυπριακό ζήτημα και ο ρόλος των μεγάλων δυνάμεων: Μια Ρεαλιστική προσέγγιση
  • Charalambos Polycarpou
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Andreas Theophanous
    • Provisional Thesis Title: National interests and the Economic Monetary Union (EMU): The case of Greece and Cyprus
  • Makis Polydorou
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Giorgos Kentas
    • Provisional Thesis Title: The Soviet Policy on the Cyprus Problem
  • Panayiotis Tilliros
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Andreas Theophanous
    • Provisional Thesis Title: ‘Bail-out’ and ‘bail-in’ in EU programme countries: Causes and effects of the MoU programmes on the economies of Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland
  • Ioakeim Ampartzidis
    • Main Supervisor: Dr. Michalis Kontos
    • Provisional Thesis Title: The intertemporal role of Lebensraum (vital/living space) as a concept in forming Turkish foreign and energy policy towards Greece and Cyprus after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974
  • Anastasia Papamichael
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Constantinos Adamides (with Ioanna Dionysiou (UNIC) and Sofia Iordanidou (Open University Cyprus))
    • Provisional Thesis Title: Tactics of information warfare and small states: vulnerabilities, resilience and defense options
  • Dimitrios Michas
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Giorgos Charalambous
    • Provisional Thesis Title: Nationalist rhetoric in the European Parliament (2009-2019)
  • Tarek Sueliman Fayeq Dajani
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Farid Mirbagheri
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Assessing China’s “Cooperative” Relations with the Arab World – Applying Rational Choice Theory
  • Ioannis Chouvardas
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Theodoros Tsakiris
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Η ενεργειακή ασφάλεια ως παράγοντας όξυνσης του διακρατικού ανταγωνισμού στην Αν. Μεσόγειο, στο φόντο του ανταγωνισμού ΗΠΑ-Ρωσίας
  • Muhammad Ahsan
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Farid Mirbagheri
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: The Agenda-Setting Role of Pakistani Mass Media in Shaping Public Opinion and State Policy On Global War On Terrorism
  • Victoria Triantafillaki
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Andreas Theophanous
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Οι κοινονικο-οικονοιμκές συνέπειες των ενόπλων συγκρούσεων: Μεσοπρόθεσμες και Μακροπρόθεσμες επιπτώσεις στρατηγικών παραβιάσεων του Διεθνούς Ποινικού Δικαίου στον άμαχο πληθυσμό
  • Georgios Siachamis
    • Main Supervisor: Michalis Kontos
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Στρατηγική Ασφάλειας για Μικρά Κράτη σε ένα Πολυπολικό Κόσμο

PhD in Public Administration:

  • Eleni Sivitanidou-Andreou
    • Main Supervisor: Professor Gabriel Amitsis
    • Provisional Thesis Topic: Η ανάπτυξη των ενεργητικών πολιτικών απασχόλησης στην Κύπρο υπό το πρίσμα των Ευρωπαϊκών Στρατηγικών για την Απασχόληση και την Κοινωνική Συνοχή
  • Elli Hadjigeorgiou
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Theodore Tsekos
    • Provisional Thesis Topic: Το κοινωνικό φύλο στη σφαίρα της δημόσιας πολιτικής και της δημόσιας διοίκησης: μια νεοθεσμική προσέγγιση
  • George Chrysafinis
    • Main Supervisor: Dr Giorgos Kentas
  • Eleftherios Loizou
    • Main Supervisor: Gabriel Amitsis
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Το σύστημα κοινωνικής πρόνοιας στην Κύπρο και παρεμβάσεις κοινωνικής πολιτικής στο τοπικό επίπεδο
  • Vasiliki Kitsiou
    • Main Supervisor: Giorgos Kentas
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Η Εφαρμογή του Στρατηγικού Μανατζμεντ στην Ελληνική Δημόσια Διοίκηση ως Παράγοντας Εκσυγχρονισμού των Δημόσιων Οργανισμών και Αναβάθμισης των Παρεχόμενων Υπηρεσιών
  • Stavros Stathopoulos
    • Main Supervisor: Giorgos Charalambous
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Ο ρόλος της Τ.Α. Α’ και Β’ βαθμού σε σχέση με το προσφυγικό ζήτημα
  • Antonios Tzakos
    • Main Supervisor: Giorgos Charalambous
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Συγκριτική ανάλυση των αξιολογικών μεθόδων και συστημάτων του δημοσίου τομέα στην Ελλάδα και σε λοιπές Ευρωπαϊκές χώρες και η διερεύνηση των απόψεων των Ελλήνων δημοσίων υπαλλήλων για τη βελτιστοποίηση του επικρατούς αξιολογικού συστήματος της εργασιακής τους απόδοσης στην Ελλάδα
  • Katerina Gampetta
    • Main Supervisor: Giorgos Kentas
    • Preliminary Thesis Title: Η διοικητική συνεργασία των κρατών μελών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στη διαδικασία της ευρωπαϊκής ενοποίησης