Biography

Dr. Theofanis Exadaktylos is Lecturer in European Politics (EU Common Security and Defence Policy) in the School of Politics.

He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Exeter. His doctoral thesis was on the Europeanization of national foreign policies of the member states with particular focus on Greece and Germany. He holds an MSc. in European Political Economy: Integration from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Economics and International Relations (Europe and the former USSR) from Tufts University.

Previous work included:
- issues of real and nominal convergence in the least affluent countries of the Union
- the political economy of transition and enlargement
- the political economy of Southeastern Europe: democratization and Europeanization

Research Interests

Current research interests include Europeanization of foreign policy, politics of austerity, issues of policy implementation and political trust, the current Eurozone crisis from the perspective of the rise in populism.

Working Papers:

    -- with Nikolaos Zahariadis "Policy implementation and political trust: Greece in the age of Austerity"

    -- with Sofia Vasilopoulou and Daphne Halikiopoulou "Europe in crisis: the rise of populism in an age of austerity"

Publications

Exadaktylos, T. and C.M. Radaelli (eds.) (forthcoming December 2011) Research Methods in European Studies: Research Design in Europeanization, Palgrave/Macmillan.

Exadaktylos, T. (forthcoming December 2011): “Europeanization in Foreign Policy outside the Common Foreign and Security Policy”, in Exadaktylos, T. and C.M. Radaelli (eds.) Research Methods in European Studies: Research Design in Europeanization, Palgrave/Macmillan.

Exadaktylos, T. and C.M. Radaelli (forthcoming December 2011): "Looking for Causality in Europeanization Studies", in Exadaktylos, T. and C.M. Radaelli (eds.) Research Methods in European Studies: Research Design in Europeanization, Palgrave/Macmillan.

Exadaktylos, T. and C.M. Radaelli (2010) “Causal Explanation in the Study of Europeanisation”, No.28, “Political Methods” Working Paper Series by the IPSA Committee on Concepts and Methods C&M, http://www.concepts-methods.org/papers.php, 

Radaelli, C.M. and T. Exadaktylos (2009), “New directions in Europeanization research”, in M. Egan, W. Patterson, and N. Nugent (Eds.) Research Agendas in EU Studies: Stalking the Elephant, Palgrave/MacMillan.

Exadaktylos, T. and C.M. Radaelli (2009), “Research Design in European Studies: The case of Europeanization”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 47(3): 507-530.

Exadaktylos, T. (2007), “Powerful Presidents: Obstacles or Catalysts in the Democratic Transition and Consolidation of Southeastern Europe?”, Balkan Studies Journal, Institute of Balkan Studies (IMXA), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Exadaktylos, T. (2007), “Whither Southeastern Europe? The Course of Market Economy in the post-Communist Balkans”, in Greek “Προς τα πού βαδίζει η Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη; Η πορεία της ελεύθερης αγοράς στα μετακομμουνιστικά Βαλκάνια”, Valkanika Symmeikta, Institute of Balkan Studies (IMXA), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Teaching

Autumn Semester

POL1012 - Introduction to Politics: Politics, Power and the State

POL2027 - Approaches to Research

Spring Semester:

POL2029 - Comparative Politics and Government

POLM009 - Research Methods II

Affiliations

• American Political Science Association (APSA)
• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP)
• Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Political Studies Association (PSA)
• Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA)
• University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
• Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) of the PSA
• Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics

Conference papers

2011

-- with Nikolaos Zahariadis "Policy implementation and political trust: Greece in the age of austerity" and
-- with Sofia Vasilopoulou and Daphne Halikiopoulou "Greece in crisis: Europeanization and the rise of populism in an age of austerity" University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, "The politics of austerity: Greece beyond the crisis" conference, 8-9 December 2011

Panel “Research Design in European Studies: Establishing Causality in Europeanization” 6th ECPR General Conference, University of Iceland, 25-27 August 2011.

“The impact of the Enlargement policy on the foreign policies of the EU member states: lessons from Greece and Germany”, PSA Conference: London, 19 – 21 April 2011. 

“Establishing causality in Europeanization research: can the ‘EU effect’ be traced?” MPSA National Conference: Chicago, IL, 31 March – 3 April 2011.

The impact of Enlargement on EU foreign policy – a bottom-up approach’ and
'Research design in Europeanization studies: the case for process-tracing methods’ EUSA Conference: Boston, MA, 3 – 5 March 2011.

2010

“The EU Enlargement to the East: Europeanizing German Foreign Policy”, ECPR 5th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Porto, Portugal, 24-26 June 2010

-- with Claudio Radaelli “Exploring the mechanisms of Europeanization”. PSA Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 30 March – 1 April 2010.

2009

Workshop "Multi-level Governance in South East Europe - Institutional Innovation and Adaptation in Croatia, Greece, F.Y.R. Macedonia and Slovenia": One-day workshop, University of Sheffield, 18 September 2009, Invited discussant.

-- with Claudio Radaelli: “Research design and causal analysis in European studies. A meta-analysis of the Europeanization literature”, APSA Annual Meeting: Toronto, Canada, 3-6 September 2009.

-- with Claudio Radaelli: "Causal approaches in the context of Europeanization research: a meta-analytic perspective" Berlin, 27 February 2009.WZB Conference: Measuring the Europeanization of Public Policies, beyond the 80% myth, at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin. 

2008

“The case of EU involvement in the Western Balkans: Europeanizing Greek Foreign Policy”. ECPR 4th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics: Riga, Latvia, 25-27 September 2008.

“Europeanizing Foreign Policy: The Case of Greek involvement in the Western Balkans” in the workshop “The EU as a global actor: from pragmatic ad-hocism to policy coherence”. ECPR 4th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics: Rennes, France, 11-16 April 2008.

“EU encounters with domestic politics, policies and polities” Panel with Prof. Claudio Radaelli, Prof. Paolo Graziano, and Dr. Francesco Stolfi. Exeter, 25 January 2008.

2007

-- with C. Radaelli “Europeanization and Mainstream Political Science: Aligning the Debates on Causal Analysis.”  4th ECPR General Conference: Pisa, Italy, 6-8 September 2007.

“Uncharted Waters: Greek foreign policy agenda during and in the aftermath of EU enlargement.”  4th ECPR General Conference: London 13-15 June 2007.

"The impact of powerful presidents on the process of democratic transition and consolidation in Southeastern Europe: A big, slow-moving macro-social process". Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference:University of Exeter, 28-30 May 2007.

-- with C. Radaelli “Europeanization and Mainstream Political Science: Aligning the Debates on Causal Analysis.” Research Symposium “Studying the European Union: Current and Future Agendas” organized by Palgrave Macmillan Publishers at the German Embassy. London, 9 March 2007.

Other information

Dr. Theofanis Exadaktylos has appeared on BBC Radio 4; and has been a regular commentator for local radio stations and regular commentator for international news agencies on issues of the future of the European Left and the rise of right-wing extremism; the financial crisis and the future of the EU; the implications of the British Elections on the relationships with Europe; the riots in Greece; issues of Greek foreign policy and Greek-Turkish Relations and the Cyprus question.

He has written a number of editorial pieces for peer reviewed academic blogs and the Greek press.

He has acted as reviewer for the Journal of Common Market Studies, European Political Science, Journal of Contemporary European Research, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, the World Bank (development reports) publications, and Palgrave MacMillan European Union Series.

He speaks Greek, German and Spanish.