COSTAS M. CONSTANTINOU
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Department of Social and Political Sciences
FEB 01 - Faculty of Economics and Management, Β116
University Campus
Costas M. Constantinou is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cyprus with research interests in diplomacy, conflict, international political theory, and legal and normative aspects of international relations. He completed his PhD with an Overseas Research Scholarship at Lancaster University, and taught at the Universities of Hull, Keele and Lancaster, and as visiting academic at Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, and the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He was Visiting Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and, besides Cyprus, he has conducted fieldwork in India, Nepal, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and Kenya. His work received international awards and distinctions, and external funding from, amongst others, the Leverhulme Trust, the EU 7th Framework Programme, EEA Grants and the Leventis Foundation. He has served as external assessor at universities in Europe, America, Africa and Australia and on several editorial boards, inter alia, Diplomatica, International Political Sociology, Politics, Religion and Ideology, and Review of International Studies.
He teaches the following courses:
SPS 641 – Diplomacy (postgraduate)
SPS 624 – Topographies of Peace and Conflict (postgraduate)
SPS 540 – International Political Theory (postgraduate)
SPS 456 – Global Commons (undergraduate)
SPS 377 – Power and Legitimation in International Politics (undergraduate)
SPS 456 – Global Commons (undergraduate)
SPS 377 – Power and Legitimation in International Politics (undergraduate)
- Diplomacy
- Conflict
- International Political Theory
- Legal and Normative Aspects of IR
His research currently focuses on:
(1) Colonial Transformations and Self-Determination Pursuits in the International System: Studying the new forms of colonialism and how autonomy and self-determination are conceived and being pursued in different geopolitical contexts.
(2) Inequality and Inclucivity in Multilateral Diplomacy: Studying the prospects and challenges of participation of non-state actors in deliberative and decision-making processes at the UN.
- Constantinou, C.M., McConnell, F. et al (2025) "Reimagining Self-Determination: Relational, Decolonial and Intersectional Perspectives", Political Geography, 118, 103112.
- Constantinou, C.M. and Christodoulou, E. (2024) "On Making Peace with Nature: Visions and Challenges towards an Ecological Diplomacy", Review of International Studies, 50(3): 579-599.
- Constantinou, C.M. (2023) "Humanitarian Diplomacy as Moral History", Peacebuilding, 11(1): 1-19.
- Constantinou, C.M. and McConnell, F. (2023) "On the Right to Diplomacy: Historicizing and Theorizing Delegation and Exclusion at the United Nations", International Theory, 15(1): 53-78.
- Demetriou, O., Constantinou, C.M. and Tselepou, M. (2023) "Lateral Colonialism: Exploring Modalities of Engagement in Decolonial Politics from the Periphery", Third World Quarterly, 44(9): 2173-2190.
- Constantinou, C.M. (2022) “Remedying Asymmetric Diplomacy at the United Nations: Towards an Eco-Social Contract.” UNRISD Think Piece Series (Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development).
- Constantinou, C. M. and Hadjimichael, M. (2021) "Liquid Entitlement: Sea, Terra, Law, Commons", Global Society, 35(3): 351-372.
- Constantinou, C.M. (2021) "Why Greeks and Turks Fight", Current History, 120(824): 105-111.
- Constantinou, C.M. et al (2021) "Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory", International Political Sociology, 15(4): 559-587.
- Constantinou, C. M. and Opondo, S. O. (2021) "On Biodiplomacy: Negotiating Life and Plural Modes of Existence", Journal of International Political Theory, 17(3): 316-336.
- Constantinou, C. M. (2021) "Around the Broken Chair: Locationality, Visuality and the Vibrancy of Diplomatic Objects", The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 16(1): 120-132.
- Constantinou, C. M., Hadjimichael, M. and Eftychiou, E. (2020) "Ambivalent Greenings, Collateral Conservation: Negotiating Ecology in a United Nations Buffer Zone", Political Geography, 77, 102096.
- Hadjimichael, M., Constantinou, C. M. and Papaioakeim, M. (2020) "Imagining Ro: On the Social Life of Islets and the Politics of Islandography", Island Studies Journal, 15(2), 219-236.
- Constantinou, C. M. (2020) "Video Dispatch from the Borderscape: Toward a Diplomatic Geography", Cultural Geographies, 27(4), 665-670.
- Constantinou, C. M. (2018) "Visual Diplomacy: Reflections on Diplomatic Spectacle and Cinematic Thinking", The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 13(4), 387-409.
- Constantinou, C. M., & Tselepou, M. (2017) "Branding Orthodoxy: Religious Diplomacy and the Makarios Legacy in Sub-Saharan Africa", Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 13(3), 179-193.
- Constantinou, C.M., Cornago, N. and McConnell, F. (2017) Transprofessional Diplomacy (Brill)
- Constantinou, C. M. and Opondo, S. O. (2016) "Engaging the ‘Ungoverned’: The Merging of Diplomacy, Defence and Development", Cooperation and Conflict, 51(3), 307-324.
- Constantinou, C.M., Kerr, P. and Sharp, P., eds, (2016) The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy (Sage Publications)
- Constantinou, C. M. (2015) "In Pursuit of Crisis Diplomacy", The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 10(1), 29-34
- Constantinou, C. M. (2013) "Between Statecraft and Humanism: Diplomacy and its Forms of Knowledge", International Studies Review, 15(2), 141-162.
- Constantinou, C.M. and Der Derian, J., eds, (2010) Sustainable Diplomacies (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Constantinou, C.M., Richmond, O.P and Watson, A., eds, (2008) Cultures and Politics of Global Communication (Cambridge University Press)
- Constantinou, C.M. (2004) States of Political Discourse: Words, Regimes, Seditions (Routledge)
- Constantinou, C.M. (1996) On the Way to Diplomacy (Minnesota University Press)
For information and access to publications – books, articles and essay films – see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas-Constantinou-4 and https://vimeo.com/costasmconstantinou