Workshop “Democracy and Liberalism”

When: Monday, November 4, 2024
Where: Konstantinos G. Karamanlis Foundation, Karaiskaki 6, Filothei, 15237
Time: 18:00
Detailed program can be found here.

CVs

Nicholas Onuf is a theorist in the fields of International Relations and International Law. He began his teaching career at Georgetown University, taught at American University for twenty-four years, and then at Florida International University and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Greece, Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and the US. He is the author of eight books, two with his brother, a distinguished historian, and has edited or co-edited five other books. He has written many articles in academic journals and edited volumes, and numerous book reviews and brief essays. Panteion University granted him an Honorary PhD in 2012. Colleagues and former students presented him with a Festschrift in 2018.

Vassilios Paipais is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He earned his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and he is a UK Higher Education Academy Fellow. He works on International Political Theory and the history of international political thought. He has published papers on the theological foundations of realist thought in International Relations, on political ontology, and on philosophical and political theology in various leading IR and political theory journals. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: voiding a pluralist world (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the editor of Theology and World Politics: metaphysics, genealogies, political theologies (London: Palgrave McMillan, 2020), Perspectives on International Political Theory in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2021), and The Civil Condition in World Politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism, (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022).