Robert Kissack
Associate Professor
International Relations
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Spain
Biography
He has been at IBEI since 2008. My research profile is at the intersection of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU) and international organisation. More specifically, it has centred on the EU as an actor in the multilateral system and his book Pursuing Effective Multilateralism… (Palgrave 2010) was one of the first in this field. He is specialised in examining the capacity of the EU to operate in many different multilateral organisations, including the ILO, FAO, UN General Assembly and Security Council, the WTO and the IMF. He worked in two research projects in this area, EU-Perform (funded by the European Science Foundation) and EUN-NET, a brand new Jean Monnet Network (2017-2019). He also worked closely with colleagues at IBEI, including Esther Barbé, Oriol Costa and Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués in many projects on European foreign policy. He teaches one of the core courses of the Masters in International Relations, International Relations Theory, during the first semester, as well as a core course in the Master in International Development, Governance National and Global Institutions, also in first semester. He is also Head of Studies and Coordinator of the IR programme.
Research Interest
European Union foreign Policy, international organisation and International Relations
Publications
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Kissack, Robert.2013The EU’s Performance in the International Labour OrganizationJournal of European Integration,33(6):651-665
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Kissack, Robert2013.The European Union and Multilateralism.In: K. E. Jørgensen & K. V. Laatikainen (eds.)Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions(pp. 405-415).London:Routledge
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Kissack, Robert2014.The EU and Human Rights PromotionIn: A. K. Aarstad, E. Drieskens, K. E. Jørgensen, K. V. Laatikainen & B. Tonra (eds.)The Sage Handbook of European Foreign Policy(pp. 820-834).SAGE (2014)
