Igor Jovanoski graduated Political science at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. He holds MA degree in European and International studies from the Institut Europeen des Hautes Etudes Internationales [IEHEI] in Nice, France. Currently he is a Volkswagen PhD fellow in Transnational Relations and Political Theory at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science [BIGSSS] in Bremen, Germany. His dissertation topic is "A political culture clash? Divergent conceptions of sovereignty and the EU-US relationship." As a student of International organisation his academic interest is grounded in sociological Theories of International  Relations [IR] and constructivist Foreign Policy Analysis [FPA]. Within this framework, Igor explores three general issues: the emergence, historico-temporal development of sovereignty and state and their spatio-cultural conditionality. Secondly, he analyses the relationship between the national and post-national political spaces resulting from the abovementioned processes and lastly, national and post-national patterns of Foreign Policy behaviour and its normative and factual contexts. Transatlantic Relations [TR] in particular, is the empirical field of his research since 2003. More concretely, the evolving conceptions of sovereignty, state and identities in Europe [France and Germany] and the US, as well as their FP relationship have informed the practical core of his studies.

E-mail: igorjov@gsss.uni-bremen.de