Christian Lekon studied History and English Literature and then received his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000. After a spell as Tutorial Fellow at the History Department of Hannover University (Germany), he has been Head of the Department of International Relations at the European University of Lefke (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) since 2006. His research focuses upon a diachronic comparison of British and American imperialism and colonialism in the Middle East, to which he applies the insights of Giddens’s structuration theory and of Luhmann’s systems theory.