Spyros Makris

Dr. Spyros Makris is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Macedonia. He is also a member of the Hellenic Political Science Association (HPSA), the Hellenic Philosophical Society (HPS), the Hellenic Sociological Society (HSS), the International Association for Greek Philosophy (IAGP), the European Sociological Association (ESA), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the Global Studies Association (GSA), Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities (HA Center), Bard College, New York, USA, and the British Philosophical Association (BPA), United Kingdom. For his monographs in Greek, see the Biblionet database. Among his works in English, see, inter alia: "Discontent, but also blind? Understanding the discipline of International Relations in Greece", Hellenic Studies, Volume 16, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 155-180 (co-authored with Kyriakos Mikellis); "The Internationalist Thought of Constantine Tsatsos. From the idealistic Kantian peace to the realistic Hegelian international res publica. A model of international society", Annuaire International Des Droits De L'Homme, III, 2008, Brussels: Bruylant, pp. 585-598; "American constitutional history through St. George Tucker's Selected Writings: A case of Jeffersonian republicanism", Annuaire International Des Droits De L'Homme, IV, 2009, Brussels: Bruylant, pp. 685-686; "Hegemonism. American Foreign Policy and International Society. Alternative Perspectives", Brussels: Etablissements Emile Bruylant, S.A., 2010 (Monograph); "Discourses of revolutionary subject in contemporary Marxism. Critical reflections through Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's oeuvre", Theoria & Praxis. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2015, pp. 1-10; "Jacques Derrida and the Case of Cosmopolitanism: 'Cities of Refuge' in the Twenty-First Century" in Darren O'Byrne and Sybille De La Rosa (eds), The Cosmopolitan Ideal. Challenges and Opportunities, London: Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2015, pp. 177-194; "Balance of power and democratic peace vs. Hegemonism. Demosthene's Grotian realism in the post-Cold War perspective", Annuaire International Des Droits De L'Homme, Volume VIII, 2014, Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex, Paris: L.G.D.J. lextensoeditions, 2016, pp. 679-705; "Politics, ethics and strangers in the 21st century. Fifteen critical reflections on Jacques Derrida's concept of hos(ti)pitality", Theoria & Praxis. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2017, pp. 1-21; "Aristotle in Hannah Arendt's Republicanism. From homo faber to homo politicus", Annuaire International Des Droits De L'Homme, Volume IX, 2015-2016, Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex, Paris: L.G.D.J. lextensoeditions, 2017, pp. 535-563; "Democracy as a 'form of society'. Claude Lefort's post-foundational approach", 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association. (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities. ESA 2017 Athens 29.08 - 01.09. Abstract Book, European Sociological Association, Hellenic Sociological Society, Paris: European Sociological Association, 2017, pp. 739-740; and "European demos, citizenship and migrants in a globalized world. Some critical reflections from a Habermasian perspective" in Marco Caselli and Guia Gilardoni (eds), Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 87-107. He has participated in numerous international conferences and workshops in Greece and abroad.