Lecturer in International and European Politics, University of Birmingham
George Kyris is Lecturer in International and European Politics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he has been a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick, a Research Fellow at the LSE and has also taught at the University of Manchester. He is author of many peer-reviewed articles and of the book ‘The Europeanisation of Contested States: The EU in northern Cyprus’.
His main research focus on conflict and statehood, especially unrecognised states, but also the European Union and the politics of the Eurozone crisis.
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