Angelos Chryssogelos

Jean Monnet Fellow

Email: [email protected]

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 712

Office: Villa Schifanoia, VS064

Biographical Note

Dr Angelos Chryssogelos is assistant professor in politics and international relations at the School of Social Sciences of London Metropolitan University. He studied international relations and European politics in Athens (BA, MSc) and Leiden (MA). He received his doctorate in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in 2012. He was a National Bank of Greece Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics (2015-16), a Berggruen-Weatherhead Research Fellow at the Global Populism research cluster of the Weatherhead Center, Harvard University (2018-19) and a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar at SAIS Johns Hopkins (2019). He is the author of "Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies: Cleavages, Ideas, Competition" (Routledge, 2021). His articles have appeared in, among others, the Journal of European Integration, Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Foreign Affairs Review and International Political Science Review. He is research associate of the Martens Centre and associate fellow of the Europe Programme of Chatham House. His research interests lie on the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, with emphasis on the role of political parties in foreign policy, the international sources and impact of populism, and dynamics of contestation and legitimacy in world politics.

Research Project

As a Jean Monnet fellow in 2020-21, Chryssogelos studies the relationship between the emergence of populism and the functioning of global governance. His project understands populism as a discourse of international politics that articulates reaction to globalization as representational claims of the ‘people’ towards elites enmeshed in complex processes of transnational and supranational governance. The implication is that populism is fed not just by a confluence of material and cultural grievances, but also by the disconnect between political communities and the networked mode of global governance that has managed globalization. Addressing legitimacy deficits of global governance may be significant in countering the rise of populism.