COSTAS M. CONSTANTINOU
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PROFESSOR
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 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, Lancaster and Nicosia, 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 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 Theory
- Legal and Normative Aspects of IR
His research currently focuses on:
(1) Colonial Systems of Governance and Self-Determination Practices: Studying the historical and new forms of colonialism and how diverse claims to self-determination are pursued in the international system.
(2) Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy: Studying the challenges and prospects of enhanced participation of non-state actors in multilateral diplomacy, locally and globally.
(3) Cultural Diplomacy and Creative Interventions at the United Nations: Part of a more extensive EU-funded project on "ArtPeace: Investigating and Strengthening Grassroots Cultural and Creative Practices for Conflict Transformation in Europe and Beyond" (2026-2029).
- Constantinou, C.M., McConnell, F. et al (2025) "Reimagining Self-Determination: Relational, Decolonial and Intersectional Perspectives", Political Geography, 118, 103112.
- Constantinou, C.M. and Hatay, M. (2025) "Beyond a Comprehensive Settlement in Cyprus: CBMs and the Reinstatement of Maronite and Buffer Zone Villages", PRIO Policy Brief, 3. Nicosia.
- 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.
- Koktsidis, P. I., Constantinou, C. M. & Joseph, J. (2021) "Legal and Geopolitical Aspects of Energy Development in the Eastern Mediterranean and the EU’s Strategic Involvement", in The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed (Springer), 119-137.
- 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. (2019) "Transgressing the Nation: In Defence of Cypriot Peasantry and Rustic Politics", Cyprus Review, 31(1), 73-98.
- 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. (2017) "Revising the Treaty of Guarantee for a Cyprus Settlement", EJIL: Talk.
- 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. (2016) "Everyday Diplomacy: Mission, Spectacle and the Remaking of Diplomatic Culture", in Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics (Routledge), 35-52.
- Constantinou, C. M. (2015) "In Pursuit of Crisis Diplomacy", The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 10(1), 29-34.
- Dodds, K., Jensen, R. B. and Constantinou, C. M. (2015) "Signposts: Cyprus, UK and the Future of the SBAs", The RUSI Journal, 160(5), 36-45.
- Constantinou, C. M. (2013) "Between Statecraft and Humanism: Diplomacy and its Forms of Knowledge", International Studies Review, 15(2), 141-162.
- Constantinou, C. M. (2012) "Multidirectional Diplomacy and the Privatization of Settlement", Peace Review, 24(4), 454-461.
- Constantinou, C. M., Demetriou, O. and Hatay, M. (2012) "Conflicts and Uses of Cultural Heritage in Cyprus", Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 14(2), 177-198.
- Constantinou, C. M. and Hatay, M. (2010) "Cyprus, Ethnic Conflict and Conflicted Heritage", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(9), 1600-1619.
- 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 access to the above and other publications – articles, books and essay films – see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas-Constantinou-4 and https://vimeo.com/costasmconstantinou