Dr Sevasti-Eleni Vezirgiannidou Department of Political Science and International StudiesLecturer in International Organisations Contact details Telephone+44 (0)121 414 6224Fax+44 (0)121 414 3496Emails.vezirgiannidou@bham.ac.uk View my research portal AddressDepartment of Political Science and International StudiesSchool of GovernmentMuirhead TowerUniversity of BirminghamEdgbaston, Birmingham,B15 2TT, United Kingdom Eleni’s research interests are in the area of international environmental politics with a specific specialisation in the following topics: how do nations come to cooperate in environmental issues? Qualifications PhD in International Relations, University of Essex MA in International Relations, University of Essex BA in International and European Economic and Political Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece Biography Eleni’s research interests are in the area of international environmental politics with a specific specialisation in the following topics: how do nations come to cooperate in environmental issues? Does this cooperation lead to environmentally beneficial outcomes? What are the challenges for environmental governance in general, and for climate governance in particular? What are the links between environment and other areas of global governance and what are the consequences of those links? Eleni has recently started a project on the role of developing countries in environmental governance and negotiations. She would be interested to supervise students focusing in international environmental politics and governance Teaching Currently responsible for the third year module P327 International Organisations Research Research and academic interests International Environmental Politics Climate change politics Environment and trade negotiations Environmental Regime effectiveness and compliance The trade-environment debate Current and recent projects Regime interaction in environmental governance European Leadership in climate negotiations Developing countries in environmental negotiations Trade and environment linkages in institutional settings Other activities Other professional appointments 2003-2007: Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Essex 2004-2005: Visiting Lecturer, London Metropolitan University 2007-2009: Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge Publications Vezirgiannidou, S.E. (forthcoming 2010), Environmental Governance: Regime Displacement in space, time, and across issue-areas, (Brill Press/Martinus Nijhoff) Vezirgiannidou, S.E.(forthcoming 2010) ‘Entering the Zone of Agreement: the United States in Climate Negotiations’, in Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions, edited by Amrita Narlikar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Vezirgiannidou, S.E. (2009) ‘The Climate Change Regime post-Kyoto: why Compliance is Important and how to Achieve it’, Global Environmental Politics 9(4) Vezirgiannidou, S.E. (2008) ‘The Kyoto Treaty and Relative Gains’, Environmental Politics 17(1View all publications in research portal