JAVIER
MORALES HERNÁNDEZ

Dr Javier Morales is a Lecturer in International Relations at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research is focused on Russia's foreign policy and International Relations theory. He has been Vice-Dean for International Relations, Cooperation, and Mobility at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology. Previously, he worked at Universidad Europea, Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus), and the Fundación Alternativas think tank, where he led the Russia and Eurasia research programme. He obtained his PhD in International Relations from Universidad Complutense in 2009, with a dissertation on Russia's security policy in the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies. He holds a BA in Political Sciences from the same university, as well as an MA in Philosophy and an MA in Peace, Security and Defence, both from UNED University. After defending his dissertation, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In 2010-2012, he moved to the University of Oxford as a visiting researcher, affiliated to the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College. His stay was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. He has been a short-term visiting researcher at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Carnegie Moscow Center, Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham, and Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI).