Goran Ilik

Ph.D., is a full professor and Vice-Rector for Science at the University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in Bitola (North Macedonia). In 2017, Professor Ilik was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law – Kicevo for the first time, while on January 15th, 2021, he was re-elected to the same position for a second time. His academic background includes a BA in Law, an MA in Political Science, and a Ph.D. in Political Science, and his publication list contains papers, chapters, and monographs emphasising the role of the European Union in international relations, the institutional architecture of its foreign policy, the EU’s constitutional law and constitutionalism, and the EU’s axiological performances and its political power. Additionally, Professor Ilik has written many papers on the EU’s role in the new international context concerning the contemporary challenges of the liberal world order and the EU’s role and place within it. He is the author of the books Europe at the Crossroads: The Treaty of Lisbon as a Basis of European Union International Identity, EUtopia: The International Political Power of the EU in the Process of Ideeologization of the Post-American World, and International Relations and the European Union: Values before Power. Prof. Ilik is also a lecturer and trainer at the State Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors “Pavel Shatev” – Skopje (North Macedonia), along with being a co-founder of the Institute for Research and European Studies – Bitola, and the Editor-in-Chief of the international academic journal “Journal of Liberty and International Affairs” (www.e-jlia.com). Since October 2019, Prof. Ilik has been engaged as an expert in the ANETREC project, which is focused on academic cooperation and post-conflict reconciliation in the Western Balkans region. Finally, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research in Italy (2020–2021).