This episode explores the radical left, left-wing politics, protests, and social movements in Cyprus and beyond. Dr Yiannos Katsourides at the University of Nicosia shares with us his insights and his new upcoming projects on the radical left.

Dr Yiannos Katsourides is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and Governance of the University of Nicosia. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cyprus. He was previously Director of Prometheus Research Institute and adjunct lecturer at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cyprus. He has held visiting fellowships from the Hellenic Observatory of the European Institute of the LSE, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London for 5 years (2010-2015) and the British School at Athens. His research interests include South European Politics, Cyprus and Greek politics, radical left and extreme right political parties, political participation, and political institutions. He is the author of three books: The History of the Communist Party in Cyprus (I.B. Tauris, 2014); The Radical Left in Government: the cases of SYRIZA and AKEL (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); The Greek Cypriot Nationalist Right in the Era of British Colonialism (Springer, 2017). His articles have appeared in West European Politics, South European Society and Politics, Nations and Nationalism and in the Journal of European Integration, among others.