PhD, FHEA
Senior Lecturer
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- Email Address
- ilia.xypolia@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272740
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Social Science
Biography
Dr Ilia Xypolia is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Ilia is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. She has previously worked at the Universities of Keele and London. Ilia completed an IKY-funded PhD in Politics and International Relations at Keele University, UK. Before that, she read Political Science and International Relations at the Universities of Athens, Piraeus, and Warsaw.
Ilia's interdisciplinary research interests that broadly concern democracy, nationalism and imperialism engage with and contribute to the historical-sociological strand of International Relations. Her publications and ongoing research cover various aspects of the history and politics of the Eastern Mediterranean through a globalist perspective. She is also the Reviews Editor of the refereed periodical Journal of Global Faultlines, published biannually by Pluto Press.
Ilia is the author of Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and British Imperialism and Turkish Nationalism in Cyprus, 1923-1939: Divide, Define and Rule (Routledge, 2019 pbk; 2017 hbk). Her third monograph on the Global 1923 and the Treaty of Lausanne together with Dr Dionysios Tsirigotis from University of Piraeus, Greece is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Senate Assessor to University Court (2022-2023) (2023-2026).
Elected Member, Senatus Academicus (2018-2022) (2022-2026).
Member, Governance and Nominations Committee (reports to University Court; 2023-present)
Member, Finance and Resourcing Committee (reports to University Court; 2022-2023)
Member, Honorary Degrees Committee (2018-2022).
Department Rep, UCU.
Member, Equality and Diversity / Athena SWAN Committee.
Personal Tutor.
- External Memberships
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Reviews Editor: Journal of Global Faultlines.
Fellow, "Turkey Europe Future Forum" at the Mercator Program Center for International Affairs.
Referee / Book manuscripts and proposals: Palgrave Macmillan; Sage Publications; I.B. Tauris.
Reviewer: Political Studies Review, Mediterranean Politics; Middle East Critique; Journal of Modern Greek Studies; Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Nations and Nationalism, Cooperation and Conflic.
Member of the panel of experts for the Euromed Survey: European Institute of the Mediterranean.
External Assessor, BA in International Politics, Middlesex University, UK.
External Assessor, BA in International Relations, Richmond University, UK.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Alternative Policies, Greece.
British International Studies Association, Member.
Political Studies Association, Member.
European International Studies Association, Member.
Latest Publications
Three guardians, an infant, and a guaranteed conflict. The imperialistic Treaty of Guarantee (in Greek)
Tetradia of Political Dialogue, Research and Critique, pp. 371-380Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBook Review - The Evolution of the Political, Social and Economic Life of Cyprus, 1191–1950: by Sakellaropoulos, S., Palgrave Studies in Economic History, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-91838-5
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern StudiesContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2024.2307810
Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy. Xypolia, I. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 47-106, 60 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99815-8_4
Corruption as a Human Rights Issue
Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy. 1 edition. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-133, 27 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99815-8_5
Global Political Implications: Demonising the Public Sector
Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy. 1 edition. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 135-143, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- Research
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Research Overview
- Middle Eastern Politics and History
- Imperialism and Nationalism
- Eurocentrism and Orientalism
- Global Politics of Human Rights
- Measuring Corruption
- The politics of numbers and global benchmarking
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Politics and International Relations.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- International History
- International Politics
- International Relations
- Modern History
- World History
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
Courses
Course Coordinator
Course Coordinator
Course Coordinator
- PI4081: Global Power Shifts, Hegemony and Knowledge
Course Coordinator
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Teaching Responsibilities
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PI1518 Introduction to Politics and International Relations 2: Power and Conflict
PI3572 Human Rights in Global Politics
PI4081 Global Power Shifts, Hegemony and Knowledge
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PI2508 Global Politics: Equality and Inequality
PI3069 Researching into the 21st Century
IR4031 Dissertation
PI4071 Dissertation
- Publications
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Imperial bending of rules: British Empire, Treaty of Lausanne and Cypriot immigration to Turkey
Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 674-691Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCyprus: dangerous row over gas exploration dates back to British colonial meddling
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesFirst time left: contrasts, contradictions, internal conflicts in PASOK during the period 1974‒1990 and the bases of its political transformation (in Greek)
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, pp. 1-2Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2019.1598056
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Libya and ICC: not indicting Khalifa Haftar makes mockery of international justice
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesBritish Imperialism and Turkish Nationalism in Cyprus, 1923-1939: Divide, Define and Rule
Routledge, Abingdon, OxonBooks and Reports: BooksWhy Libya’s new peace plan needs to go further than forging democracy
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesReview of Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest BorderAlbahari Maurizio . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 267pp., £42.50 (h/b), ISBN 9780812247473
Political Studies Review, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 456Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917707684
News of Saif al-Islam’s release: regional politics fuels rumour mill in Libya
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesAre the Cyprus reunification talks doomed to fail again?
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesCyprus Peace Negotiations: (Neo)-imperialism is the Deal Breaker
The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, vol. 106, no. 2, pp. 231-232Contributions to Journals: Articles
