Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations
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. He holds an undergraduate degree in Law (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), an MA in International Relations and Strategic Studies (Panteion University, Athens) and an MRes in International Relations (LSE). He has also been awarded a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) and he is a UK Higher Education Academy Fellow.
His research focuses on three areas: the theory and history of realism as an ethico-political response to the crisis of liberal modernity in the 20th century, the question of ontology in politics and international relations, and the study of political theology in world politics. 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).