Post: Professor
Section: International and European Studies
Expertise: Theory and Institutions of European Integration
Contact information
Office telephone: 210 368 8906
Electronic mail: dchrys@pspa.uoa.gr
Office address: 6 Themistokleous Street, 4th floor, office 31
Office hours:
Curriculum Vitae
Dimitris N. Chryssochoou is Professor of Theory and Institutions of European Integration in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (since 2019)
Posts
He has been Professor of Theory and Institutions of European Integration at Panteion University, Associate Professor of International Organization at the University of Crete, Reader in European Integration at the University of Exeter, Honorary Senior Research Fellow and Honorary University Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies also at the University of Exeter, Visiting Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania, at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade and at the Centre for Research on Democracy and Law of the University of Macedonia (March-July 2022), Visiting Research Professor at the Virginia Tech Center for European Union, Transatlantic and Trans-European Space Studies – A Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Visiting Fellow at the Centre of International Studies and Associate Scholar at Pembroke College of the University of Cambridge, Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow at the LSE European Institute, at the Law School of European University Cyprus and at the Institute of International Relations of Panteion University, Visiting Scholar at the Institute on Western Europe and at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History of CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India, at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Jyväskylä, at the ARENA Centre for European Studies of the University of Oslo, at the Institute for European Studies of the University of Malta, at the Laboratory of Social and Political Institutions of the University of the Aegean, at the Centre for European Policy and Regional Development of the University of Crete, at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Visualising, Analysing and Learning about EU Studies of the University of the Peloponnese and at the Norwegian Institute at Athens, Senior Fellow at the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs of the University of Nicosia, Research Fellow at the Department of History, Politics and International Studies of Neapolis University Pafos and at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Governance of the University of the Peloponnese, Visiting Researcher at the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva, at the Centre for Political Research and Documentation of the University of Crete and at the Centre for European Constitutional Law in Athens, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Centre for European Studies. He has also been Scientific Director of the Defence Analysis Institute of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence, Secretary General of the Hellenic University Association for European Studies, National Co-ordinator of the Council of Europe’s programme ‘Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education’ at the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture as representative of the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs.
Distinctions
- Certificate of Honour, Association of Guardians of Mongolian History (25.8.26)
- Commendation of Exemplary Contribution to Political Theory and International Studies, Centre for Social and Political Research, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India (6.8.26)
- Golden Star of Friendship Medal, Peace and Friendship Organization of Mongolia (3.8.26)
- Honorary Member, Literary Society Parnassos (20.7.26)
Commendation of Outstanding Academic Contribution to Political Science and European Studies, on behalf of Polis - Journal of Political Science by Executive Director, Professor Sabin Drăgulin, “Petre Andrei” University of Iași (7.7.26)
Praise for Outstanding Scholarship in European Studies, Early Modern Greek Culture Program, Medici Archive Project, Florence (3.7.26)
Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to International Studies, Visvaniti Foundation, New Delhi, India (15.6.26)
Award for Outstanding University Teaching NKUA for the academic year 2024-25, School of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (26.11.25)
European Syspondia: Event in Honour of Professor Dimitris N. Chryssochoou (in Greek), Centre for Political Research and Documentation, Department of Political Science, University of Crete (26.11.25)
- Distinguished International Research Fellow, Centre for Political Research and Documentation, Department of Political Science, University of Crete (26.11.25)
Commendation of Contribution to Letters and Culture, Municipality of Nea Philadelfia-Nea Chalkidona (22.10.25)
Honorary Member of the Society for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History - ‘Ioannis Kapodistrias’ (25.5.25)
Medal of Honour of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture (15.11.23)
Medal for Outstanding Contribution of the Republic of Cyprus (2.23)
Medal of Honour of the Municipality of Nafplion for the 200 Years from the Liberation of Nafplion (30.11.22)
Medal of the Municipality of Hydra for the 200 Years from the Greek Revolution (25.5.22)
Archon Referendarios of the Holy Great Church of Christ, ordained by His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the All-Holy Patriarchate Church of Saint George at the Phanar (30.1.22)
Honorary Distinction for Original Planning and Exemplary Writing for the book Politeiologia of unions (in Greek, I. Sideris Publishers, 2020), Hellenic Political Science Association (5.2.2021)
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter (31 Dec. 2019-31 Dec. 2022)
Honorary University Fellow, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter (2014-19)
1997 European Studies Award (PhD), Hellenic University Association for European Studies
(30.1.1998)
Education
1993-96: PhD in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Reading, UK. Thesis: ‘From Democracies to Democracy: The Case of the European Community’
1991-92: MSc in European Studies, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
1987-91: BA in Political Science and Public Administration (distinction), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Books
Sketch on political forms (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2024
Cooperative Federalism in South Asia and Europe: Contemporary Issues and Trends, London and New York: Routledge, 2024 (edited with M. J. Vinod, S. V. Joseph, J. C. Chennattuserry)
Politeiologia of unions (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2020, 2nd/3rd edition, 2002
European Governance in Times of Uncertainty/Gouvernance Européenne en temps incertains. Liber Amicorum Constantine Α. Stephanou, Athens: Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2021 (edited with C. V. Gortsos, V. G. Hatzopoulos, A. G. Passas)
Politics: a conceptualization (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2017, 2nd edition, 2019
Polity of a life unbounded: An introduction to political theory (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2017
Knowing the social world: co-ordinates as horizons for intersubjective understanding (in Greek), I. Sideris: 2017
Theory of European integration: A dialectical composition (in Greek), 2nd edition, Papazisis, 2015
Logos of the Social Sciences: An Introductory Navigation (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2013
A Republic of Europeans: Civic Potential in a Liberal Milieu, Edward Elgar, 2011 (with K. A. Lavdas)
Organized plurality: the mosaic of international symbiosis (in Greek), Papazisis, 2010
Caritas rei publicae (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2010
Directions in the study of international relations (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2010 (edited with K. A. Lavdas, D. K. Xenakis)
Theorizing European Integration, Sage, 2001 (translated in Greek by A. Balopoulou, Papazisis, 2003), 2nd edition, Routledge, 2009
In the Public Sphere: Testing Ideas (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2009
The Imperceptible Sovereignty (in Greek), Papazisis, 2008
Towards a Post-statist Conception of Europe (in Greek), Sakkoulas, 2008
Outline of a Post-statist Polity (in Greek), Papazisis, 2007
Essay on International Theory: New Forms of Sovereignty and Synarchy (in Greek), Papazisis, 2006
Towards a European res publica (in Greek), Papazisis, 2005
European Integration and Political Theory: The Challenge of Republicanism (in Greek), I. Sideris, 2004 (edited with K. A. Lavdas)
Thirty Years of Democracy: The Political System of the Hellenic Republic (1974-2004), Vol. II (in Greek), Kritiki, 2004 (edited with G. Contogeorgis, K. A. Lavdas, M. Mendrinou)
Theory and reform in the European Union, Manchester University Press, 1999, 2nd edition, 2003 (with M. J. Tsinisizelis, S. Stavridis, K. Ifantis), on which European Polity: The Art of Co-determination (in Greek), Savalas, 2009 (with M. J. Tsinisizelis, S. Stavridis, K. Ifantis, D. K. Xenakis) is based, translated in Greek by I. Tsolakidou
The emerging Euro-Mediterranean system, Manchester University Press, 2001 (with D. K. Xenakis)
Democracy in the European Union, I. B. Tauris, 1998
European Union and Democracy: Structural Conditions and Political Process (in Greek), I. Sideris, 1995 (with M. J. Tsinisizelis)
