| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 2, 2015 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Hellenic and Balkan Seminar Series
Panagiotis J. Tsakonas is Professor of International Relations, Security Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. He studied political science, international relations and security studies at the Panteion University of Athens and Reading University, Great Britain.
He has been Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations (Athens, Greece), NATO Research Fellow, post-doctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University and Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College, Center for European Studies, University of Oxford.
He has worked as Chief International Affairs Analyst for the weekly New Europe (1994-96), as Advisor on defense and strategic issues at the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense (1996-1998) and as Special Advisor at the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs on security issues and on Greek-Turkish relations (1999-2003).
He served on the Scientific Board of the Hellenic Center for European Studies (EKEM) and on the Executive Board of the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), and as Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), member of the Senate of the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) in Slovenia, Director of the MSc Program “Political, Economic and International Relations in the Mediterranean” and Head of the Department of Mediterranean Studies. He is the co-director of the book series: International and European Studies (Gutenberg Publications) and co-editor of the academic journal Etudes Helléniques/Hellenic Studies.
His books/monographs include: National Security Strategy. Building the Greek Model for the Twenty-First Century (Papazissis, Athens, 2005, with Th. Dokos -in Greek), Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization (Routledge, London and New York, 2007, co-editor), European Security Institutions and Interstate Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean. Parochial, Necessary or Insufficient? (Hellenic Center for European Studies, September 2007, Athens), and The Incomplete Breakthrough in Greek-Turkish Relations. Grasping Greece’s Socialization Strategy (Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2010).
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