Mor Sobol is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of European & American Studies at Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan). He holds a B.A in Government from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel), an M.A in European Studies from Hochschule Bremen Germany), and a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh (UK). His main research interests center on EU foreign policy, European Neighbourhood Policy, Mediterranean politics, EU-Israel relations, Israel-Taiwan relations and new institutionalism theories.