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About
Patrick is a Fellow in European and International Politics at the European Institute.
He teaches various courses on MSc European and International Politics and Policy Programme.
He is the Convenor of the module The EU and the Global South: Geopolitics, Security and Development. He also teaches European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective and EU488: European Policy-Making and International Cooperation. Patrick supervises MSc dissertations and applied policy projects. He was awarded an LSE Excellence in Education Award in 2025. He was also a Highly Commended Nominee in the LSE Student Led Teaching Excellence Award 2025.
He has previously been a lecturer at the European and EU Centre at Monash University in Australia, where he taught courses on the EU and the World, the Jean Monnet module EU and the Developing World, International Peace and Security Studies, International Trade and Diplomacy, and Statecraft. He also aught Global Politics at the University of Melbourne. Earlier, he worked as a Project Officer in the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Global Engagement at Monash University, Australia.
Patrick holds a PhD in Political Science and MA in International Relations from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He also has a PGCE in Education from La Trobe University, Australia, LLM in International Law from Oxford Brookes University, and MSc in Higher Education from the University of Oxford.
Expertise
EU’s External relations including EU’s relations with the global South on topics such as:
- security
- trade
- development cooperation
- migration
- race
- decolonisation
- international migration and refugee law
- international Humanitarian law
Research
Patrick’s research focuses on various aspects of the EU’s external relations including external perceptions of the EU as well as the EU’s relations with the global South on topics like security, trade, development cooperation, migration, race, and decolonisation.
He has been examining the Europe’s borders from the perspective of its periphery. It re-contextualises and re-conceptualises the way we understand the EU by exposing the colonial logic that drives EU’s discourse, policy, and practice in the management of its borders. It also incorporates race into the theory of the EU. He is also working on the relations between Africa and European Union from a de-colonial perspective.
Patrick has previously contributed to other research projects, including the Australian Research Council Linkage project on Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in the Australian Context at Monash University’s Global Terrorism Research Centre. He also participated in the European Commission-funded transnational research project on the Perceptions and Visibility of the EU in East and South Africa, as well as the Asia-Pacific regions, based at the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.