Dr Yiannos Katsourides

Associate Professor
School of Law
Department of Politics and Governance

Dr Yiannos Katsourides is Associate Professor of the University of Nicosia, Department of Governance and Politics. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cyprus. He was previously Director of Prometheus Research Institute and adjunct lecturer at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cyprus. He has held visiting fellowships from the Hellenic Observatory of the European Institute of the LSE, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London for 5 years (2010-2015) and the British School at Athens. His research interests include South European politics, radical left and far right political parties, political participation, political institutions, Cyprus and Greek politics and history, colonialism and nationalism. He is the author of three books: The History of the Communist Party in Cyprus (I.B. Tauris, 2014); The Radical Left in Government: the cases of SYRIZA and AKEL (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); The Greek Cypriot Nationalist Right in the Era of British Colonialism (Springer, 2017). His articles have appeared in Party Politics, Government and Opposition, West European Politics, South European Society and Politics, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and the Journal of European Integration, among others.