Spiros Makris

Assistant Professor in Political Theory



Research interests:

Dr. SPIROS MAKRIS: Assistant Professor in Political Theory (Department of International and European Studies, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece) and Research Fellow, Academy of Athens. His work focuses on history of political thought; modern and contemporary political theory; continental philosophy; critical theory; poststructuralism; contemporary political and ethical thought and international political philosophy and theory. Except his work in Greek his publications in English include inter alia as follows: Discontent, but also blind? Understanding the discipline of International Relations in Greece, Hellenic Studies, Volume 16, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 155-180 (with Kyriakos Mikelis); The Internasionalist Thought οf Constantine Tsatsos. From the idealistic Kantian peace to the realistic Hegelian international res publica. A model of international society, Annuaire International Des Droits De L’ Homme, III, 2008, Bruxelles: Bruylant, pp. 585-598; American constitutional history through St. George Tucker’s Selected Writings: A case of Jeffersonian republicanism, Annuaire International Des Droits De L’ Homme, IV, 2009, Bruxelles: Bruylant, pp. 685-686; Hegemonism. American Foreign Policy and International Society. Alternative Perspectives, Bruxelles: Ėtablissements Emile Bruylant, S. A., 2010; Discourses of revolutionary subject in contemporary Marxism. Critical reflections through Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s oeuvre, Theoria & Praxis. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2015, pp. 1-10; Jacques Derrida and the Case of Cosmopolitanism: ‘Cities of Refuge’ in the Twenty-First Century στο Darren O’Byrne and Sybille De La Rosa (eds), The Cosmopolitan Ideal. Challenges and Opportunities, London: Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2015, pp. 177-194 and Balance of power and democratic peace vs. Hegemonism. Demosthene’s Grotian realism in the post Cold perspective, Annuaire International Des Droits De L’ Homme, Volume VIII, 2014, Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex, Paris: L.G.D.J. lextensoéditions, 2016, pp. 679-705.

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