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 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, Honorary University Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies of the University of Exeter, 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.
Distinctions
- 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 Senior Research Fellow, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter (31 Dec. 2019-31 Dec. 2022)
- 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 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)
