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Kostas IFANTIS Professor of International Relations Dept. of International, European and Area Studies Panteion University of Social and Political Studies 136, Syggrou ave., 17671 Athens Greece E-mail: [email protected] Place and Date of Birth: Lamia, Greece, 17-11-1965 Nationality: Greek Education: • PhD, Department of European Studies, University of Bradford, U.K., October 1988 - June 1993. “EC-US Relations in an Era of Interdependence. US Impact on EC policy making in the framework of the completion of the Single European Market” (with Kenneth Dyson and Kevin Featherstone) • Law Degree, School of Law, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, October 1983 - June 1988. Academic and Professional Experience: • Professor of International Relations, Department of International and European Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece • Visiting Professor, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey (2012-2020) • Visiting Professor, University of Seoul, Summer 2016 • Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, Greece, 2004-2016. • Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, Greece, 1998-2003. • Director of Research, Centre for Policy Analysis and Planning, Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2004-2008. • President and Director General, The Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM), 2005-2007. • IAA Senior Research Fellow, European Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2009. 1 • Fulbright Visiting Scholar, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA, March-August 2002. • Member of ‘Groupe de Reflexion Europeen, Conseil Economique de la Defense’ (CED), French Ministry of Defence, March-December 2002. • USIA Research Fellow, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, June-August 1998. • Special Advisor, Greek WEU Presidency Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens, Greece, 1997-98. • Lecturer in International Politics, School of Social and Historical Studies, Univ. of Portsmouth, U.K., 1993-95. • Lecturer (p/t), Department of European Studies, University of Bradford, U.K., 1990-1993. Academic Publications I. Books and Edited Volumes • The Syrian Imbroglio: Regional and International Strategies, (co-editor) Robert Schuman Centre for Advance Studies, European University Institute, Florence, 2017 • Is Europe afraid of Europe? An assessment of the result of the 2014 European elections, (editor) Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy & Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, 2015 (in both greek and english) • International Political Theory: The Attraction of Realist Discourse, Athens, Sideris Publ., 2012 (in Greek) • Introduction to Strategic Studies, Athens, Sideris Publ., 2010 (in Greek). • Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization, (co-editor), London, Routledge, 2008 (contributors include G. John Ikenberry, Jack Snyder, Thomas Risse, Michael Barnett, Frank Schimmelfennig, Erik Voeten, Oliver Richmond etal) • International Security Today: Understanding Change and Debating Strategy, (co-editor), Ankara, SAM, 2006. • Turkish-Greek Relations: The Security Dilemma in the Aegean, (co-editor), London, Routledge, 2004. • NATO and the New Security Paradigm: Power, Strategy, and Order and the Transatlantic Link, London, Frank Cass, 2002 2 • Theory and Reform in the European Union, (co-author), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002, 2nd revised edition. • NATO in the New European Order, (co-author)), London & New York, Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, 1996 • Greece in a Changing Europe: Between European Integration and Balkan Disintegration? (co-editor), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1996 • EC-US Relations in an Era of Interdependence: US Impact on EC policy making in the framework of the completion of the Single European Market, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Bradford, UK, 1993. II. Guest editor in peer reviewed academic journals • Deciphering the Greek Crisis: Issues, Failures, Challenges, International Relations/Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Volume 15, No 58, Summer 2018. • What Kind of Security? Afghanistan and Beyond, (with Alistair Edgar), International Journal, Volume LXII, No 3, Summer 2007 (Indexed and abstracted in SSCI, IPSA among other) • Turkey’s road to European Union membership: national identity and political change, (with Susannah Verney), Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Volume 9, No 3, December 2007 (indexed and abstracted in SSEI, IPSA, IBSS among other) III. Papers in peer reviewed academic journals and paper series . • ‘Introduction: A Note on Populism in Crisis-Ridden Greece’, International Relations/Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Volume 15, No 58, Summer 2018, 3-8 (µε Δ. Τριανταφύλλου). • ‘Greece’s Strategy and Perceptions Towards Turkey: The End of Consensus and the Return of History?’, International Relations/Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Volume 15, No 58, Summer 2018, 93-106. • ‘National Role and Foreign Policy: An Exploratory Study of Greek Elites’ Perceptions towards Turkey’, GreeSE Paper No. 94, Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe, The LSE, August 2015 (with D. Triantaphyllou and A. Kotelis) • ‘The US and Turkey in search of regional strategy: Towards asymptotic trajectories’, UNISCI Journal of Intenrational Relations, (October 2014). • ‘The US and Turkey in the fog of Regional Uncertainty’, GreeSE Paper No.73, Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe, The LSE, August 2013 3 • ‘Migration trends in the Mediterranean: a challenge for the European Union’, Global Review, Summer 2013. • ‘OSCE: A Natural Home for Europe’s Neutrals?’, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 3(11), June 2013. • ‘Addressing Irregular Migration in the Mediterranean’, CES Research Paper, Centre for European Studies, Brussels, 2012. • ‘Greek Stakeholders in the EU-Turkey Debate’, in Nathalie Tocci (ed.) Talking Turkey in Europe: Towards a Differentiated Communications Strategy, Quaderni IAI 13, Rome, Istituto Affari Internationali, December 2008, 85-102 (co-author). • ‘Conditionality, Impact and Prejudice in EU-Turkey Relations: A View from Greece’, in Nathalie Tocci (ed.) Conditionality, Impact and Prejudice in EU-Turkey Relations, Quaderni IAI 9, Rome, Istituto Affari Internationali, July 2007, 58-66. • ‘Turkey in Transition – Opportunities amidst peril?’, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 9(3), December 2007, 223-233 (indexed and abstracted in IPSA, IBSS among other). • ‘What Kind of Security? Guest Editors’ Introduction’, International Journal, LXII(3), Summer 2007, 451-57 (co-author) (indexed and abstracted in SSCI, IPSA among other). • ‘NATO’s Strategic Direction after Riga: NATO’s post-Cold War Adaptation’, International Journal, LXII(3), Summer 2007, 577-89 (indexed and abstracted in SSCI, IPSA among other). • ‘Greece’s Turkish Dilemmas: There and Back Again…’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 5(3), September 2005, 379-394 (indexed and abstracted in IBSS among other). • ‘US-Russian Relations: International and Regional Security Trajectories’, Perceptions, Vol. X, No. 3, Autumn 2005, 27-56 (co-author).. • ‘Strategic Imperatives and Regional Upheavals: On the US Factor in Greek-Turkish Relations’, Turkish Studies, 5(1), 2004, London, Frank Cass, 21-44 (indexed and abstracted in SSCI, IPSA among other). • ‘Inherent Unilateralism: Systemic Unipolarity and US Strategy’, Hellenic Studies, 12(1), Spring 2004, 21-38. • ‘Altering the Security Dilemma in the Aegean: Greek Strategic Options and Structural Constraints – A Realist Approach’, The Review of International Affairs, 2(2), Winter 2002, London, Frank Cass, 1-25 (with Theodore Couloumbis). • ‘The Politics of Order Building? Reviewing Western Policy in Kosovo and Southeast Europe’, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2(2), May 2002, London, Frank Cass, 21-42 (indexed and abstracted in IBSS among other). 4 • ‘American Strategic Choices - The US in the New European Security Setting’, The Review of International Affairs, 1(2), Winter 2001, London, Frank Cass, 83-98. • ‘Power Politics, Security Dilemma, and Crisis Behavior: The Case of Imia’, Hellenic Studies, 9(2), Autumn 2001, 29-48. • ‘Understanding International Politics After the September, 11 Terrorist Attacks: A Note on the New Security Paradigm’, Perceptions, Μάιος 2002, 27-56. • ‘Revisiting the Triangle of Turkey, Greece and the United States’, Hellenic Studies, 8(2), Autumn 2000, 189-203 • ‘Conceptual and Institutional Adaptation of Security: Redefining NATO’s Role, Identity and Strategy in the New European Condition’, The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, No XXVI 1996, Ankara, 1999, 1-21 • ‘Europaische Sicherheit und die OSZE – Eine griechische Sichtweise’, OSZE – Jahrbuch 1997, Institut fur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik (an der Universitat Hamburg), Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1997, 65-72. • ‘From Factionalism to Autocracy: Pasok’s De-radicalization During the Regime Transition in the 1970s’, Democratization, 2(1), March 1995, 77-89 (indexed and abstracted PSA, IPSA among other). • ‘European Security and Balkan Challenges: National Policies and Institutional Failures’, (co-author), Balkan Studies, 36(2), 1995, 327-349 (indexed and abstracted in Historical Abstracts among other. IV. Papers in edited volumes (international) • ‘Mistrust Dies Hard: Elite Perceptions and Greek-Turkish Relations’