Noé Cornago

Noe Cornago Ph.D. is Associate Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where he is in addition, since march 2025, Director of Internationalization. Director of the MA & Doctoral Program in International Studies (2012-19), and Director of the MA in Peace and Development Studies (2002-18) at the UPV/EHU. In that function he promoted and managed a number of decentralized partnerships with various UN institutions, and collaborated as expert with the Council Europe. Scientific Director of the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2018-20), and both pro-tempore and appointed member of its Board of Trustees (2021-2025), and Chief-Editor of its WoS Journal Oñati Socio-Legal Series (2018-20). He has held diverse short visiting positions at Ohio State University (1992) and University of Idaho (2007); Université Laval in Quebec (2002); and Guest Lecturer at Sciences Po Bordeaux (2004), and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center of European Studies, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford (2011-12). More recently he has been Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris (Spring 2017), and Non-Residential Research Fellow at the USC 's Annenberg School, Center on Public Diplomacy (2023-25). His research - awarded with five consecutive six years periods (1993-2023) by the Spanish National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (ANECA-CNEAI) - is focused on the contemporary transformations of diplomacy and diplomatic law, global regulation, critical sociology of knowledge, global media events, post-development, and aesthetics and politics. Amongst other publications, he is the author of Plural Diplomacies: Normative Predicaments and Functional Imperatives (Brill 2013), and Transprofessional Diplomacy (Brill 2017), the latter co-authored with Costas M. Constantinou and Fiona McConnell, and co-editor of five collective books. Associate Editor of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy (2025), journal in which also served as Advisory Board (2014-22), Editorial Board Member at Diplomatica: Journal of Diplomacy and Society (2019-23), Afers Internacionals (2012-23), Si Somos Americanos (2015-23), Spanish Yearbook of International Law (2015-2019), Cuadernos Deusto de Derechos Humanos (2009-24), Aldea Mundo (2015-22), Revista Española de Desarrollo y Cooperación (2020-25), and EISA-OUP Voices in International Relations book Series since 2023. Member of BITARTEZ, a research group focused on strategic communication, and JOSAFCON, on the safety of journalists covering international conflicts, both based at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication.