Biography
Ph.D. – is a full professor and vice rector for science at the University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bitola (North Macedonia). From 2012 to 2016, he served as a senator in the Senate of the University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bitola, and from 2013 to 2017, he held the position of vice dean for science and international cooperation at the Faculty of Law – Kicevo. In 2017, Dr Ilik was elected dean of the Faculty of Law – Kicevo for the first time, while on January 15th, 2021, he was re-elected as dean of the same faculty. 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 on the role of the European Union in international relations, the institutional architecture of its foreign policy, the EU’s constitutional law and constitutionalism, the EU’s axiological performances, and its political power. Also, many of Dr Ilik’s papers feature treatises 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 in 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 the Ideologisation of the Post-American World, and International Relations and the European Union: Values before Power. Dr Ilik is a lecturer/trainer at the State Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors “Pavel Shatev” – Skopje (North Macedonia), in addition to being co-founder of the Institute for Research and European Studies in Bitola, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Liberty and International Affairs (www.e-jlia.com), and the Journal of Legal and Political Education (www.iies.mk/jlpe) international academic journals. Since October 2019, he has been engaged as an expert in the project ANETREC, which is focused on academic cooperation and post-conflict reconciliation in the Western Balkans region. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research in Italy (2020–2021). Additionally, he has extensive experience from his involvement both in international projects and those supported by the European Union.
