Georgios Varouxakis is a Professor of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London, known for his scholarship on political ideas, liberalism, nationalism, and the intellectual history of Europe and the West. His 2025 book The West: The History of an Idea (Princeton University Press) explores the evolution and contested meanings of “the West” as a political, cultural, and intellectual concept from antiquity to the modern era. Varouxakis has authored several influential works on figures such as John Stuart Mill and on transatlantic intellectual exchanges, earning recognition for his contributions to the study of modern political thought and international ideas.