George Kyris is Lecturer and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham. Previous affiliations include the LSE and the Universities of Warwick and Manchester, where he completed his PhD. His main research interests are international conflict, unrecognised states, separatism and international organisations, the European Union, and debates on sovereignty. His research has been published in his monograph on EU and unrecognised states and journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.