Vladimir Bilcik heads the European Studies Program in the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA) and lectures on European integration and IR theory in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava. His research interests include the role of post-communist member states in the EU, EU relations with eastern neighbours and EU foreign policy. He co-authored (with Zuzana Lisonova & Peter Dobis) New Member States and EU Foreign Policy. From Outsiders to Visible Voices (Comenius University Press, 2009), has published in various journals such as Osteuropa, Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, Dějiny a současnost and regularly contributes to Yearbook of Foreign Policy of the Slovak Republic. He studied at Swarthmore College (B.A.), University of Oxford (M.Phil.) and Comenius University (PhD.)