Angelos Chryssogelos
Dr Angelos Chryssogelos is Reader in Politics and International Relations. He studied politics and international relations in Athens (BA, MSc) and Leiden (MA) and received his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in 2012.
He has held positions at London School of Economics (NBG Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-16), King's College London (2016-18), the Weatherhead Center at Harvard (Berggruen Fellow in Global Populism 2018-19), SAIS Johns Hopkins (Fulbright-Schuman scholar 2019), and the Schuman Centre of the EUI (Jean Monnet fellow 2020-21). He also held teaching posts in the universities of Antwerp and Limerick.
His publications have appeared in journals like International Affairs, European Union Politics, International Studies Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, Politics and others. He is the author of Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies (2021), co-editor of the Ideational Approach to Populism Vol. II (2024) and the Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy (2025), and co-editor of two special issues for International Political Science Review (2017) and Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2025). He has also published policy reports for think tanks like Chatham House, Political Capital Institute and the Martens Centre.
He regularly participates in all major international conferences of political science and IR (ISA, EISA, BISA etc.) and has given guest lectures in among others Yale, Arizona State, Nijmegen, Warwick, Amsterdam, Genova etc.
He is a research associate of the Hellenic Observatory of the LSE and of the Martens Centre in Brussels.
Angelos' research interests lie in international relations, European politics, EU studies and comparative politics, with particular interest in foreign policy analysis and the intersection of domestic and international politics. He is a member of London Met's Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre.
Angelos' teaching interests lie in politics and international relations broadly defined, with prior teaching experience and substantial expertise in EU studies, European politics, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics. At London Met he is teaching in the Politics and International Relations (PIR) area, contributing to such modules as Introduction to International Relations and European Union Politics. He has also taken roles beyond his core expertise, eg teaching the module Racism and Ethnicity. He is a regular supervisor of BA, MA and professional placement projects.
Most important recent publications:
Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy. London: Routledge, 2025. (Co-editor With David Cadier and Sandra Destradi)
‘You’re Projecting! Global Britain, European Strategic Autonomy and the Discursive Rescue of the Internationalised State’. European Security 34(3): 345-364. 2025. (With Benjamin Martill)
‘Party Contestation of Foreign Policy in the New Global (Dis)order: Introduction’. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 38(6): 742-764. 2025. (With Toby Greene)
‘Conflict of Interest: Justifying International Cooperation in Populist Discourse’. Frontiers in Political Science 7: doi:10.3389/fpos.2025.1623155. 2025. (With Gustav Meibauer)
‘When Long Lost Siblings Reunite: Populism, Conservatism and the Discontents of Progress’. Journal of Political Ideologies 30(3): 667-686. 2025.
‘Make the West Great Again? Ukraine, Israel and the Appropriation of the West by European Populists’. European View 24(1): 115-123. 2025.
The Ideational Approach to Populism, Volume II: Consequences and Mitigation. London: Routledge, 2024. (Co-editor With Kirk Hawkins, Eliza Hawkins, Levente Littvay and Nina Wiesehomeier)
‘The Ambiguous Impact of Populist Trade Discourses on the International Economic Order’. International Affairs 100(5): 1941-1957. 2024. (With Monika Brusenbauch-Meislova)
‘European Integration and Political Party Logos: A “Visual Europeanization”?’ European Union Politics 25(1): 86-105. 2024. (With Eugenio Cusumano and Matteo Casiraghi)
‘Beyond Populism and into the State: The Political Economy of National-Conservatism’. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 26(4): 995-1014. 2024. (With Gorkem Altinors)