Dr Evans Fanoulis is lecturer above the bar in International amp; Global Politics at the School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway. He was previously assistant professor at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, postdoc researcher at Metropolitan University Prague, lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester and fellow at the Department of Government, University of Essex, where he also did his doctorate. He received training at the EU Commission and European External Action Service, and worked as research officer for the FP7 ANVIL (Analysis of Civil Security Systems in Europe) project. His main research interests lie within democracy and populism in Europe, EU foreign policy, and post-structuralist IR theory. He has published a research monograph entitled The Democratic Quality of European Security and Defence Policy: Between Practices of Governance and Practices of Freedom with Routledge and is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies . Other Public - No restrictionations of his include articles in the journals European Security , Review of International Studies , Global Society, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Politics and Governance, and Journal of Common Market Studies as well as book chapters in edited volumes.

Dr Fanoulis research interests lie within democracy and populism in Europe, EU foreign policy, and post-structuralist IR theory.

Contemporary International RelationsEU Politics and European IntegrationSecurity Studies