Alexandros Koutsoukis is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire. He holds a PhD from Aberystwyth University and worked as Andrew Linklater’s post-doctoral research assistant on symbols and world politics. He is interested in war studies, theories of international relations and process sociology. He has published on Thucydides, Clausewitz, and the war in Afghanistan. He is currently co-editing with Howard Williams, David Boucher, Peter Sutch and David Reidy the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory (volumes 1 and 2). He is also a joint winner of the 2019 BISA Distinguished Excellence in Teaching International Studies Award.