Dr. Stelios STAVRIDIS Email: dr.stelios.stavridis@gmail.com Tel. (work): +34-976761485

Dr. Stelios STAVRIDIS (PhD. in International Relations, LSE, University of London, 1991) has been an ARAID Senior Research Fellow in the Research Unit on European and International Studies/ZEIS (previously, Research Unit on “Global Governance and the European Union”) of the University of Zaragoza in Spain since December 2007.

 

He is also:

• co-founder, co-convenor, and member: Grupo Permanente AECPA (AECPA) sobre Diplomacia(s) Plural(es): Diplomacia(s) Plural(es) (aecpa.es) (Plural Diplomacies).

 

• member: ECPR-Standing Group on European Union: European Union.

 

• member: European Network of the European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Leeds: European Network | European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (ECR2P).

 

• member: The European Parliament Academic Research Network, School Global Affairs, Lancaster University: European Parliament Academic Research Network – Studying the politics of Strasbourg and Brussels.

 

• Associate Senior Fellow: Institute of International Economic Relations IDOS/IIER, Athens:   Institute of International Economics Relations.

 

 

In the past, he held a number of other ACADEMIC POSTS, including:

 

1991-1993: European Studies Course Co-ordinator, King's College London.

 

1993-2002: Lecturer in International Relations and European Politics, The University of Reading (Department of Politics and International Relations & The Graduate School of European and International Studies/GSEIS), also: 1995-2002 Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Studies ("The International Dimension of European Integration" financed by the European Commission (Brussels), and 1995-2000 Director of the Centre for Euro-Mediterranean Studies, GSEIS.

 

2005-2007: Head of the Euro-Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Studies Unit, Institute of International Economic Relations IDOS/IEER, Athens.

 

As well as a number of Visiting Posts, including at:

Université Libre de Bruxelles

University of the Peloponnese

Sciences Po Bordeaux

Sciences Po Grenoble

Sciences Po Lyon

Sciences Po Rennes

Université Paris 8

LUISS Roma

UAB Barcelona

 

Plus, several post-doctoral fellowships/chairs, including:

2003 and again 2006: Mediterranean Chair, Universitat de Valencia.

2001-2002: Marie Curie Experienced Researcher Fellowship (Category 40), European Commission, held at ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy), Athens.

2000-2001: Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute (EUI), Florence.

 

REGULAR attendance, participation, organization: panels, conferences, workshops or other academic events (summer schools). For instance, most recently: 2025 EUIA Brussels, 2025 EISA-PEC Bologna, 2024 IPSA Lisbon, 2024 AECPA Burgos.

TEACHING, SUPERVISION, EXAMINATION experience: BA, MA, PhD (UK, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Cyprus).

 

His PUBLICATIONS include:

Laura Gil-Besada & Stelios Stavridis (2026) ‘Barking, biting, or just… growling’? Unidas Podemos and Spain’s reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 29 pp. (first online, 20 April): https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2026.259198

 

Paula Lamoso-González & Stelios Stavridis (2024) EuroLat’s failure to act as an international moral tribune over Venezuela: a critical analysis of its Co-Presidents Declarations (2014-2023). Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional 67(1): 18 pp: scielo.br/j/rbpi/a/JgsrjMryKFLsLjZMJgNjh6S/?format=pdf&lang=en.

 

M. Velasco-Pufleau & S. Stavridis (2024) Diplomacia parlamentaria, política exterior populista y derechos humanos: la reacción del presidente López Obrador a la resolución del Parlamento Europeo de 2022. Revista Española de Derecho Internacional 76(1): 225- 255: https://doi.org/10.36151/REDI.76.1.8.

 

S. Stavridis (2023) The European Parliament, Russia and the War in Ukraine: R2P and beyond. Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law/Revue de Droit Parlementaire et Politique 17(3): 725-744.

 

P. Lamoso González & S. Stavridis (2022) El Parlamento Europeo como tribuna moral internacional: el caso de Venezuela. Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals 131: 185-210.

 

S. Stavridis (2021) Parliamentary Diplomacy: A Review Article. International Journal of Parliamentary Studies 1(2): 227-269.

 

D. Schade & S. Stavridis (2021) Attendance at the Interparliamentary Conference on the CFSP/CSDP: Fostering the Emergence of a Parliamentary Epistemic Community in the EU? Journal of Common Market Studies 59 (5): 1195-1212.

 

S. Stavridis (2021) A "dark side" to French parliamentary diplomacy? Evidence from the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts. Global Affairs 7 (2): 207-231.

 

A. Raimundo, S. Stavridis & C. Tsardanidis (2021) The Eurozone crisis’ impact: a de-Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese foreign policies? Journal of European Integration 43 (5): 535-550.

 

S. Stavridis & R. Havlovà (2019) ‘Civilian Power Europe’ and the Syrian Conflict. European Foreign Affairs Review 24(4): 469–490.

 

E. Griglio and S. Stavridis (eds) (2018) (journal special issue) “Joint scrutiny of EU policies: the contribution of inter-parliamentary cooperation”. Perspectives on Federalism 10(3): i-xviii + 1-213.

 

S. Stavridis and D. Jancic (eds) (2017) Parliamentary Diplomacy in European and Global Governance, Diplomatic Studies Series, BRILL NIJHOFF, Leiden/Boston, 387 pages.

 

S. Stavridis and M. Gianniou (eds) (2016) (journal special issue) “Parliamentary diplomacy in the Mediterranean”. Mediterranean Quarterly: a Journal of Global Issues 27(4): 2-148.

 

S. Stavridis and D. Jancic (eds) (2016) (journal double special issue) “Parliamentary Diplomacy Uncovered: European and Global Perspectives”. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 11(2-3): 105-329.

 

S. Stavridis and D. Irrera (eds) (2015) The European Parliament and its International Relations, Routledge, 304 pages Paperback edition (2016).

 

S. Stavridis, C. Tsardanidis & G. Christou (eds) (2015) (journal special issue) Crisis and De-Europeanization. Études Hélleniques/Hellenic Studies 23 (1): 7-192.

 

O. Costa, C. Dri & S. Stavridis (eds) (2013) Parliamentary Dimensions of Regionalization and Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 270 pages.   

 

 

 

 

                             (latest update: 10 July 2026)