Georgios Varouxakis grew up and went to school in Crete, Greece. He studied History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Then he completed an “MA in Legal and Political Theory” at University College London (UCL) and a PhD in History at UCL. After eight years at Aston University, Birmingham, he joined Queen Mary in 2006. His work to date has concentrated on the nineteenth and twentieth-century history of political thought and intellectual history with a particular emphasis on international political thought, political thought on nationalism, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, empire, and the intellectual history of ideas of “Europe” and “the West”, as well as of attitudes towards the EEC/EU.
Books in order of publication:
Mill on Nationality – 2002
Victorian Political Thought on France and the French – 2002
Contemporary France – 2002
An Introduction to French Politics and Society – 2003
The West: The History of an Idea – 2025
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