Aitor Bonsoms is a research assistant in the framework of the research project "Visions and practices of geopolitics in the European Union and its neighborhood" (VISIONS) coordinated by Dr. Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués. He is a Phd candidate in the program Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research fields of interest are discourse analysis, European foreign affairs (particularly regarding MENA region), critical security studies and post-structural approaches to social, political and policy studies. He holds a Bachelor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (UPF, UAM and UC3M) and an MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis (University of Essex).