Richard Youngs
Associate Professor of International and European Politics
Email: ryoungs@fride.org
Tel: +44 (24) 765 75747
Room: B0.01
Office Hours: Mondays (fortnightly) 10-12
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Dr Richard Youngs joined PAIS in September 2004 to lecture on a part-time basis. He obtained his BA (Hons) at Cambridge University, and his MA and PhD from Warwick University. He has held positions as analyst at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; research fellow to an EU project on democracy promotion; and from 2001-2004, EU Marie Curie Fellow, based at the Norwegian Institute for International Relations in Oslo.
Youngs is director of the Madrid-based think tank FRIDE.
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Dr Youngs's research focuses mainly on democracy promotion and democratisation, European foreign policy, energy security, and the MENA region. He has written several books on different elements of European external policy and published over forty articles and working papers, while writing regularly in national and international media. His latest work is Europe’s Decline and Fall: the struggle against global irrelevance (Profile Books, 2010).
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