Yannis A. Stivachtis is Director of the International Studies Program at Virginia Tech; Head of the Politics & International Affairs Research Unit of ATINER (Athens Institute of Education and Research); Scientific Expert of the Research Directorate General of the European Commission; Member of the Executive Council of the Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies Section (CISS) of the International Studies Association (ISA); and Secretary of the English School (ES) section of ISA. His past service includes Academic Dean and Head of the International Relations Program, IFM University (Switzerland); Head of the Diplomacy and International Relations Program, Schiller International University (Switzerland); Research Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and Visiting Fellow at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He has also taught in various diplomatic and military academies. His areas of interest include security studies, theories of international organization and global governance, the question of order and justice in international society, and the definition and implementation of policies related to “good governance” and “political conditionality” by various regional and global organizations. He has served as member of various editorial boards.

He is the author of Political Conditionality: The Standard of ‘Civilization’ in Contemporary International Society (forthcoming); Co-operative Security and Non-Offensive Defense in the Zone of War (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001); and The Enlargement of International Society (London: Macmillan, 1998) and co-author of Non-Offensive Defense in the Middle East (New York: United Nations Publications 1998). He is the editor of Global Affairs in a Turbulent World (Athens: ATINER, 2008); The State of European Integration (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007); International Order in a Globalizing World (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007); International Governance & International Security (Athens: ATINER, 2005); Current Issues in European Integration (Athens: ATINER, 2004); and European Union's Mediterranean Enlargement (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002); and co-editor of Turkey-European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities and Constraints (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008) and The Economic Dimension of Turkey’s Accession to the European Union (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, forthcoming). He has written several articles published in various journals and chapters in edited volumes.