Dr. Robert Kissack

Robert Kissack is currently residing as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), as well as teaching on their Masters Programme. He is also a Lecturer on the EU Online Academy for 2008-2009 session. He has also occupied the position of LSE Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and before returning to academia worked for two years at the International Labour Organization in the London office. While completing his PhD at the LSE he was co-editor of influential IR journal Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Robert has published in Global Society and Millennium, as well as having forthcoming articles in the Journal of European Social Policy and Jan Orbie & Lisa Torrell (eds.) The European Union’s Role in the World and the Social Dimension of Globalisation (London: Routledge, 2008). He has also published in CFSP FORUM, and working papers for the LSE’s European Foreign Policy Unit. His teaching interests include European Union foreign policy, (especially EU – UN relations), international organisations and international political theory.