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Professor Dries Lesage
Associate Professor of Globalisation and Global Governance
Associate Professor of Globalisation and Global Governance
Prof. Dr. Dries Lesage is Professor of International Politics at the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (GIES) of the Department of Political Science at Ghent University.
His research interests include recent developments in the multilateral architecture (UN, G20, BRICS, etc.), global taxation governance, Turkish foreign policy, and fundamental theoretical questions concerning international politics: What is the future of the rules-based multilateral system? How to rescue and improve the international legal order? How to address the causes of war?
Recent publications include Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (Springer 2021, co-edited with Irma Mosquera Valderrama and Wouter Lips), Conflict en samenwerking. Internationale politiek van 1815 tot heden [Conflict and Cooperation. International politics from 1815 till present; in Dutch] (Academia Press Lannoo 2022, co-authored with Goedele De Keersmaeker) and The G20, Development and the UN Agenda 2030 (Routledge 2023, co-edited with Jan Wouters).
His research interests include recent developments in the multilateral architecture (UN, G20, BRICS, etc.), global taxation governance, Turkish foreign policy, and fundamental theoretical questions concerning international politics: What is the future of the rules-based multilateral system? How to rescue and improve the international legal order? How to address the causes of war?
Recent publications include Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (Springer 2021, co-edited with Irma Mosquera Valderrama and Wouter Lips), Conflict en samenwerking. Internationale politiek van 1815 tot heden [Conflict and Cooperation. International politics from 1815 till present; in Dutch] (Academia Press Lannoo 2022, co-authored with Goedele De Keersmaeker) and The G20, Development and the UN Agenda 2030 (Routledge 2023, co-edited with Jan Wouters).
Dr. Maurizio Tinnirello
Postdoctoral Assistant
Postdoctoral Assistant
Dr Tinnirello is a member of the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies at Ghent University. He has held academic positions both in the Global South and North, including at Northumbria University Amsterdam Campus, and Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Dr Tinnirello has also worked as an international researcher and policy consultant on global security, and military corruption issues.
Maurizio Tinnirello holds a PhD from the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK. He was a recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie action Initial Training Award, and a visiting PhD fellow at Coimbra University. Before conducting his PhD studies, Dr Tinnirello earned a MA in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, UK.
Dr Tinnirello’s research has primarily focused on how global capitalism, and its ideology, have affected global politics and security, and also intellectual thought, and what can societies do to free themselves from capitalism’s grip. Dr Tinnirello is transferring his understanding of our historical, intellectual, and political era to address international political challenges arising from an epoch-transforming technology like artificial intelligence. Dr Tinnirello’s latest work is The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence published by CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group.
Maurizio Tinnirello holds a PhD from the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK. He was a recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie action Initial Training Award, and a visiting PhD fellow at Coimbra University. Before conducting his PhD studies, Dr Tinnirello earned a MA in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, UK.
Dr Tinnirello’s research has primarily focused on how global capitalism, and its ideology, have affected global politics and security, and also intellectual thought, and what can societies do to free themselves from capitalism’s grip. Dr Tinnirello is transferring his understanding of our historical, intellectual, and political era to address international political challenges arising from an epoch-transforming technology like artificial intelligence. Dr Tinnirello’s latest work is The Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence published by CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group.
