Akif Cem Ozkardes is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Luiss University in Rome. The working title of his thesis is “The Policy Roots of Euroscepticism: Responsiveness Against Responsibility in Ruling Parties. The cases of SYRIZA (Greece), the Five Star Movement (Italy) and the Left Green Movement (Iceland).”

E-mail: aozkardes@luiss.it

CV

  • Visiting Researcher at the Institute of European Integration and Policy, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, May 2019 – August 2019, Athens/Greece
  • PhD in Politics (Full-time), Luiss University, the PhD Programme in Politics: History, Theory, Science, September 2017 – Present, Rome/Italy
  • PhD in Political Science (Full-time), University of Helsinki, the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change, September 2016 – September 2017 (Performed 1 year of studies in pursuit of PhD before exiting programme), Helsinki/Finland
  • MS in Political Science and International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus (2014-2016), (2nd masters programme without diploma; 86 ECTS credits obtained), Morphou/Cyprus
  • MA in International Relations (European Union Studies), Leiden University, February 2016, (1st masters programme with diploma; 61 ECTS credits obtained), Leiden/the Netherlands
  • BA in Media and Communication, Izmir University of Economics, 2012, Izmir/Turkey
  • BA in International Relations and European Union, Izmir University of Economics, 2012, Izmir/Turkey

Research Interests:

Party politics, Euroscepticism, European integration, Elite Interview Method, South European and Nordic politics, Italian, Greek and Icelandic Politics

Publications 

  • A small and Eurosceptic Nordic state in the Arctic: Iceland and the EU’s Arctic Policy, MA Thesis, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 2014.