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Table of Contents

About ELIAMEP ...... 3 Message from the President ...... 4 2013 Milestones ...... 5 Research Projects ...... 6 European Integration ...... 6 Migration ...... 8 Security and Regional Developments ...... 9 Research Fellowships ...... 10 Other ...... 11 Events ...... 12 Publications ...... 16 ELIAMEP Briefing Notes ...... 16 ELIAMEP Thesis ...... 17 ELIAMEP Working Papers ...... 17 Books by ELIAMEP research fellows ...... 18 Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies ...... 19 In the Media ...... 20 Online Presence ...... 21 Our Researchers’ Activities ...... 22 Our Team ...... 40 Financial Information ...... 48

About ELIAMEP

The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, more commonly known as ELIAMEP, is an independent public benefit foundation. Since 1988, it is working on the production and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge on European and foreign policy issues, with the aim to contribute to the development of more effective policies for dealing with the major challenges for our times.

ELIAMEP’s work revolves around three major pillars: European integration, security and regional developments, and migration. Among the particular issues it studies are all aspects of the European integration process; security, international relations and conflict resolution (with a special focus on the Balkans and the MENA region); migration and multiculturalism; democracy, human rights and civic participation; and the political and socio-economic implications of environmental issues, such as climate change or the depletion of conventional energy resources. The Foundation’s focus may from time to time shift in order to remain relevant for policy-making.

ELIAMEP’s research findings and the policy recommendations it develops based on these are disseminated among stakeholders and the public at large through various information activities, such as publications, the provision of information to the media, and events, ranging from public discussions and lectures to scientific conferences, experts’ meetings, training seminars and presentations at school.

ELIAMEP is independent and polyphonic and does not promote the views or interests of governmental, political or private actors.

Its activities are funded primarily through grants awarded to it through competitive procedures in support of specific projects, sponsorships, donations and fees for the provision of research services.

ELIAMEP is governed by a Board of Directors, comprising 13 members from various relevant professional backgrounds who participate in it in their personal capacity. Its staff includes a large number of distinguished experienced, as well as promising young researchers from various disciplines, usually affiliated to it on the basis of specific projects, and a small administrative support team.

For further information go to www.eliamep.gr

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Message from the President

Dear friends,

Like everyone else living in Greece, ELIAMEP has been affected in many ways by the crisis. Although the crisis is not over yet, we can say with a degree of certainty, and even perhaps with some twist of optimism, that ELIAMEP is emerging stronger from this ordeal.

With a small but carefully selected team of researchers, ELIAMEP ranks among the top 5 institutions, along with major universities, in the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities sector in Greece, both in terms of number and value of the projects awarded to it by the European Commission. International rankings of think-tanks put it at the top of the list among its counterparts in South Eastern Europe. Personalities of an international caliber are using ELIAMEP as a forum to express their opinions and our own researchers are actively participating in the Greek and European public debates. Recently the European Research Council approved the first large-scale project in the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities to be implemented in Greece. And it will be hosted at ELIAMEP. We also launched the Crisis Observatory, an important initiative with international outreach and financial support from the Niarchos Foundation, whereas research programs on European Union developments, the Balkans and the Middle East continue to run successfully. Furthermore, ELIAMEP’s research presence on migration and, more recently, energy issues has been strengthened. This year we organized the 11th European Seminar, an annual event which gathers well-known analysts and practitioners from various countries to discuss topical European issues.

To our many friends from Greece and abroad, to all our donors and associates, we owe our sincere thanks and a promise that, as far as we can, we will keep working hard in order to build a strong Greece and a strong Europe and a world where differences are dealt with through dialogue and rules that equally apply to all, and not with the use of force.

Loukas Tsoukalis President of the Board of Directors

2013 Milestones

The Crisis Observatory is a new initiative of ELIAMEP, launched in 2013 with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Its main goal is to become a hub for information, research and debate concerning the Greek and the European crises. By presenting serious and sober research, interventions and information that is based on well-documented arguments and evidence, it aspires to contribute to gradually upgrading the public debate on the crisis by setting the framework for the development of suggestions on how to exit it.

To achieve this goal, the Crisis Observatory:

 Promotes, conducts and makes publicly available new, primary research to contribute to a documented and comprehensive understanding of the repercussions of the crisis and to the development of suggestions, which should help alleviate its impact as well as lead the Greek economy to recovery.

 Provides serious, documented and wide-reaching – as far as themes and political approach go – information on the crisis.

 Provides educational material in order to build the capacity of the average citizen to understand basic aspects of the crisis.

 Intervenes in the public debate by creating a forum for the free expression of different views and policy recommendations.

In 2013, the Crisis Observatory:

 Produced 38 original publications (7 research papers, 19 policy papers and 12 op-eds)

 Submitted 2 successful research proposals (“Fragmentation and Exclusion: Understanding and Overcoming the Multiple Impacts of the Crisis” and “Impacts of the crisis on access to healthcare services: Country reports on Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia and Luxembourg”).

 Organized 6 public events, including a discussion with the President of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, and its 1st Annual Conference (which was attended by more than 500 participants), as well as 2 round-table discussions.

 Provided information to numerous foreign delegations, organizations, analysts, educational organizations and journalists regarding the Greek and European crises.

From March 2013, when it went live, until the end of the year, the Observatory’s website had registered more than 29.000 visits. Its Facebook page received 795 likes and more than 69.000 unique visitors, while on Twitter it reached 220 followers.

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Research Projects

European Integration

ANTICORRP (2012 - ) International collaborative project, co-funded by the EU FP7, which investigates the factors that promote or hinder the development of effective anticorruption policies

CONFRONT (2013 - ) International collaborative project, co-funded by the EU’s Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme, which aims at strengthening counter-trafficking efforts in Europe by addressing two deficiencies in the current counter-trafficking response: lack of in-depth knowledge of new forms of trafficking affecting children and lack of active involvement of the Roma community – a group at high risk of child trafficking.

Crisis Observatory (2013 - ) Established by ELIAMEP with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Crisis Observatory is a dedicated research unit aiming to provide well- documented information and analyses on the Greek and European crises and to promote an informed dialogue about their causes, but – most importantly – about the way out of them. Among other activities, in 2013, the Crisis Observatory also implemented the following research projects: FRAGMEX (2013 - ) Implemented by ELIAMEP’s Crisis Observatory with funding from the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, this project seeks to understand and overcome the multi-level fragmentations and exclusions caused by the crisis both within and between European societies. Impact of the crisis on healthcare services - Greece (2013 - ) Study commissioned by EUROFOUND to ELIAMEP’s Crisis Observatory on the impact of the crisis on access to healthcare in Greece

New sources of cohesion (2013 - ) International collaborative project, co-funded by the EU’s Europe for Citizens Programme, which seeks to collect and analyze opinions from citizens and experts alike regarding the impact of austerity policies on the European economic and social model, in order to develop a renewed narrative for the European project, relevant to citizens today.

Evaluation and improved distribution of European financial resources by Greece (2010 – 2013) Study, funded by the Bank of Greece, on the impact EU-funded policies have had on the course of Greek economy over the years and the lessons learned from their distribution

From Austerity to Prosperity (2013 – ) International collaborative project, funded by the Mercator Foundation, which sought to shed the cultural stereotypes fueling Euroscepticism and intra-European divisions and at the same time develop concrete ideas on how to jointly exit the crisis

MEDIADEM (2010 – 2013) International collaborative project, co-funded by the EU FP7, which sought to identify the policy processes, tools and instruments that promote or hinder policy media freedom and independence in EU member states and candidate countries

New Pact for Europe (2013 – ) International collaborative project, funded by a consortium of major European foundations, which aimed at promoting a Europe-wide debate on the three fundamental questions, which need to be answered for developing an effective response to the multi-dimensional crisis Europeans are facing: What do we need the EU for? What needs to be done? How should it be done?

PLUREL (2010 – 2013) Implemented in the framework of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, this project sought to understand and explain limitations of religious freedoms for minority faith groups in majority Orthodox countries in Europe

Provision of independent expertise to the European Parliament in the field of AV policy (2010 - ) Framework contract awarded to a network of experts, set up by ELIAMEP, for the provision of expertise to the European Parliament in the field of audiovisual policy

Studies on the EU's Foreign Policy - Enlargement, Russia and the Neighbourhood Policy (2009-2013) Framework contract awarded to a network of think tanks including ELIAMEP for the provision of expertise to the European on issues relating to the enlargement process, Russia and the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy.

Think Global – Act European (2008 - ) International collaborative project, implemented by a consortium 16 renowned European think tanks, which aims to provide evidence-based recommendations on challenges and agenda priorities for upcoming EU presidencies

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Women and the Media in the EU (2012 – 2013) In the framework of a pan-European study commissioned by the European Institute for Gender Equality, in this project ELIAMEP examined women’s presence in decision-making posts in Greek media organizations and the extent to which they have developed codes of conduct and other forms of self-regulation to obviate discrimination on the grounds of sex.

Migration

ASSESS (2013 - ) International collaborative project, co-funded by European Integration Fund, which seeks to assess the effectiveness of measures adopted at the Member State level for the integration of the most vulnerable migrant groups, such as women, children and victims of trafficking

European Web Site for Integration (2010 - ) ELIAMEP was selected, for the third year in a row, to be responsible for updating the European Web Site for Integration with information and news from Greece

Integration policies: Who benefits? (2013 – ) International collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union, which seeks to inform and engage key policy actors about how to use indicators to improve integration governance and policy effectiveness.

IRMA (2012 - ) Funded by the programme for the promotion of excellent research of the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, this project seeks to answer two questions that are fundamental for the governance of irregular migration: How do migration control policies affect the plans and actions of prospective (and actual) irregular migrants and why are some policies more successful than others? MOVEACT (2011 – 2013) International collaborative project, co-funded by the EU’s Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme, which aimed to identify the factors that condition the political participation of intra-EU movers (EU citizens who live in a different member state from the one where they were born and/or grew up in) and to tackle the cultural and knowledge factors that prevent this political participation through a multi-media promotion.

IMNET (2012-2013) National collaborative project, funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals and national sources, for the development a cooperation network to link representatives of Mediterranean member states facing similar challenges as Greece in respect to the integration of third country nationals

Security and Regional Developments

Enhancing Youth Civic Participation in the Balkans (2011 – 2013) Funded by the EU’s Civil Society Facility, this project focused on preparing young women for active involvement in and governing of democratic changes in the Balkans, especially with regard to sensitive issues connected to the post-conflict and post-authoritarian heritage left to young generations from the times when politics was a -men only- profession.

Geopolitics of Energy (2011 - ) Dedicated research unit, established with support from the private sector, seeking to highlight the significance of a comprehensive energy strategy for the nation’s security, its foreign relations and its economic development while underlying the importance of energy corporations and the potential of public, private partnerships

Programme on Middle Eastern Studies (2010 - ) Dedicated research unit, established with support from the private sector, seeking to produce and provide well-documented information and analyses on topical issues concerning the Middle East

Southeast Europe Programme (2011 - ) Dedicated research unit, established by Dr. Ioannis Armakolas in the framework of his Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellowship, which seeks to provide high quality scholarly and policy work on topical issues concerning the region of Southeast Europe. Among other activities, in 2013, the Programme implemented the following research projects:  Albanian Elections Observatory  Building new bridges in the Balkans: Understanding misconceptions between Greece and Kosovo (2013 - )  How is the sovereign debt crisis affecting Greece’s relations with the Balkan countries and Greece’s standing the region? An initial impact assessment  Promoting the Western Balkan accession process in the context of the Greek EU Presidency (2013)

Transversal Bridges (2013 - ) Transnational collaborative project, co-funded by the EU’s Programme for the pevention of and fight against crime, which seeks to identify emerging threats from transversal terrorist alliances and the radicalization of the EU social climate

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Research Fellowships

Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellowship (2007 - )

Fellowship funded by the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation and awarded by ELIAMEP to distinguished researchers in the field of European and International Studies

In 2013 the fellowship was held by Dr. Ioannis Armakolas. Dr. Armakolas is Assistant Professor (elect) in Comparative Politics of South-East Europe at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge and has previously worked Stavros Costopoulos in universities, research centres and consulting firms in Greece and abroad. As “Stavros Costopoulos” Research Fellow, Dr Armakolas set up ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme with the objective to produce high quality research on key Balkan problems, assist Greek foreign policy through the dissemination of research findings, inform the Greek and international publics, strengthen relations with organizations in all Balkan countries as well as strengthen ELIAMEP’s collaboration with European Union institutions which are responsible for the formulation of EU policies towards South-East Europe.

During the academic year 2012-13, Dr Armakolas and the team of the South-East Europe Programme continued research and publication of research findings on deeper problems as well as current political and economic developments in the Balkans. During this period, the South-East Europe Programme created an Observatory of Albanian Elections, the only of its kind internationally. Through the work of the Observatory, ELIAMEP became one of only two organizations internationally that produced regular reports and analyses on the key 2013 general elections in Albania (the other organization being the prestigious National Democratic Institute in Washington DC). ELIAMEP’s reports on the Albanian elections were widely circulated in Europe and the US and became reference documents in influential media and research organizations, including the English- language version of Wikipedia. During the same period, the South-East Europe Programme also engaged in planning and implementation of other large research projects on issues such as the impact of the financial crisis on Greece’s diplomatic and economic position in the Balkans, the prospects of the EU enlargement during the Greek Presidency of the European Council, the mutual stereotypes and attitudes between Greece and Albania, and the mutual stereotypes and attitudes between Greece and Kosovo. The above-mentioned studies will be finalized in the next academic year. In addition, a number of other brief analyses of current issues were published, among others, with a focus on Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia-Kosovo.

The South-East Europe Programme also organized a number of discussions-events which became very popular among diplomats, journalists and academics. Among many others, the Programme hosted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, the Minister for Kosovo and Metohija of the government of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Aleksander Vulin, Ambassador Dimitris Moschopoulos, Chief of the Liaison Office of the Hellenic Republic in Pristina and EU Mediator for the Serbian Religious and Cultural Heritage in Kosovo, the Bulgarian Ambassador in Athens Ms. Emilia Kraleva. We have to stress that the Chatham House rule meetings that are organized by the South-

East Europe Programme have become the most important informal forum for dialogue on Balkan problems. EU and Balkan countries Ambassadors, Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials, journalists and foreign policy analysts are regular participants of this informal forum.

Finally, during the academic year 2012-13, Dr Ioannis Armakolas took over the coordinating role, and more recently became the Editor in Chief, of the scholarly journal “Southeast European and Black Sea Studies”. This journal is published by UK-based Taylor & Francis, one of the top international academic publishers, in collaboration with ELIAMEP. “Southeast European and Black Sea Studies” is the only international academic journal linking these two important regions and is among the most prominent journals in the field of Area Studies.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the support of the Bodossaki Foundation (2010 – 2013)

Fellowship funded by the Bodossaki Foundation and awarded by ELIAMEP to promising post-doctoral researchers in the field of European and International Studies

Following an open selection procedure, the first Bodossaki Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at ELIAMEP was awarded to Dr. George Tzogopoulos. During his term, Dr. Tzogopoulos worked on the coverage of the Greek crisis by the global media. His book entitled: The Greek drama in the media was published by Ashgate in May 2013. From November 2011 onwards Dr. Tzogopoulos is editor of ELIAMEP’s website and is doing research on American foreign policy vis-à-vis Europe and the broader Middle East.

Other

Europe Direct ELIAMEP (2009 - )

Part of a pan-European network of contact points set up and co- funded by the European Commission, the Europe Direct Information Center at ELIAMEP provides general information and raises awareness on EU-related matters at the local and national level.

In 2013, the center researched and answered over 150 questions submitted by citizens to its helpdesk. It published nearly 200 new posts on its website, which received 3.500 visits throughout the year. To further boost its impact in March 2013 it launched pages on Facebook and Twitter, gaining until the end of the year nearly 200 likes and 80 followers respectively. In addition, it actively participated in 3 events organized by third parties and organized – in cooperation with ELIAMEP – 6 of its own.

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Events

Public debate The Public debate Intra-EU National Health Mobility and the Service needs to European Crisis change, not to be

Athens, 15/01/2013 abolished Athens, 17/01/2013

Roundtable Public Debate Europe, discussion with it’s me: State of play Mr Greg Delawie, U.S. on rights and political Department of State participation Athens, 17/01/2013 Brussels, 20/02/2012

Public debate Radical Public Debate administrative reform MEDIADEM final as a prerequisite for European conference the country’s Brussels, 07/02/2013 development Athens, 21/02/2013 Workshop Working visit of Implementing the a delegation from integration of immigrants in Greece: innovative Kosovo policies, inter-institutional Thessaloniki-Athens, collaboration and good 20-22/02/2013 practices Athens, 04/03/2013

Roundtable Presentation of the discussion Crisis Observatory with the Foreign to press Minister of Kosovo representatives Athens, 08/03/2013 Athens, 12/03/2014

Roundtable Public debate discussion with the How to restore Ambassador of Greece’s lost Bulgaria to Greece, credibility H.E. Emilia Kraleva Athens, 21/03/2013 Athens, 08/04/2013

Public debate Public event Competitiveness and Signing of the Athens Outward Looking EU enlargement Orientations: Treaty 2003: 10 years Preconditions for later Growth Athens, 16/04/2013 Athens, 11/04/2013 Research seminars on Workshop energy security and Irregular Migration the hydrocarbons and Asylum market Athens, 16/04/2013 Athens, 08/03- 19/04/2013

Roundtable discussion Public debate with a delegation from The prospects of exiting the China Institutes of the crisis: could 2013 Contemporary mark the beginning International Relations of the road to recovery? Athens, 23/04/2013 Athens, 25/04/2013

Roundtable discussion Roundtable discussion Managing Greece and Iraq: government and Prospects for an policy reform in hard active relationship times: the Canadian Athens, 14/05/2013 experience

Athens, 15/05/2013 Roundtable Public debate discussion with a Why is justice delegation from the malfunctioning? All China Journalists Athens, 16/05/2013 Association Athens, 21/05/2013

Lecture by President Lecture by the Prime of Eurogroup and Minister of Luxembourg Minister of Finance of and former Eurogroup the Netherlands, President, Jean-Claude Jeroen Dijsselbloem Juncker Athens, 31/05/2013 Athens, 10/06/2013

Lecture by the President Public debate of ELIAMEP, Professor The crisis and the Loukas Tsoukalis, on the financial sector: seminar “European developments and Young Leaders: 40 prospects under 40” in Greece and Europe Athens, 13/06/2013 Athens, 17/06/2013

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10th ELIAMEP IMNET Final European Seminar International Europe in Crisis – Conference Citizens in Protest Athens, 29/06/2013 Nafplio, 04-07/07/2013

Summer School Different Stories IRMA launch event about Europe Athens, 16/07/2013 Rhodes, 12-25/07/2013

Public debate Lecture by the Prime Is it all just a dream? Minister of Italy, A social and Enrico Letta democratic Europe for Athens, 29/07/2013 citizens Athens, 09/09/2013

Public Debate The question of Kosovo Executive Seminar and Metohija and on geopolitics of Serbia’s EU accession energy and the role of process: The view from Greece Belgrade Athens, 25-27/09/2013 Athens, 19/09/2013

Roundtable Roundtable discussion discussion with Ambassador with Professor Dimitrios Leonard Seabrooke Moschopoulos Athens, 30/09/2013 Athens, 21/10/2013

Roundtable discussion Roundtable discussion with the Minister of with the Foreign and European Political Director of the Affairs of the Slovak Hungarian Ministry of Republic Foreign Affairs Athens, 24/10/2013 Athens, 25/10/2013

Roundtable ELIAMEP Annual Lecture discussion with the 2013 Revolutionary processes Right Honourable in Syria and [the rest of] Michaëlle Jean the Arab World Athens, 04/11/2013 Athens, 05/11/2013

Public conference Public debate The Treaty of The Greek Lausanne: Constitution and 90 years later – Constitutional framing migration Revision issues Athens, 21/11/2013 Komotini, 22- 23/11/2013 Public discussion with ELIAMEP – IDOS the Ambassador Seminars on Turkey of the Republic of Athens, 5/12/2013 – Iraq, H.E. Burhan Jaf 31/01/2014 Athens, 03/12/2013

Public debate 1st Annual Conference Dilemmas, challenges of the Crisis and opportunities Observatory for Greek foreign Austerity and Beyond policy Athens, 13/12/2013 Athens, 12/12/2013

Public debate Workshop Greek-Albanian European Defense: relations: the findings The role of NATO and from opinion polls in EU Greece and Albania Athens, 16/12/2013 Athens, 20/12/2013

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Publications

ELIAMEP Briefing Notes

The game of Noble: A new policy of the American company in favour of the pipelines? ,by Theodore Tsakiris

The case against an Israeli-Turkish export pipeline, by Theodore Tsakiris

Legislation on migration: New solutions to old problems, by Eda Gemi

Presidential elections in Azerbaijan, by Evangelos Venetis

Fourth Briefing Note of the Albanian Elections Observatory

The continuing political crisis in Bulgaria,by Ioannis Armakolas and Boyka Boneva

Russia’s withdrawal from DEPA/DESFA privatization, by Theodore Tsakiris

Third Briefing Note of the Albanian Elections Observatory

The enigma of elections in Iran, by Evangelos Venetis

The other side of Greece’s international image, by George Tzogopoulos

Second Briefing Note of the Albanian Elections Observatory

The beginning of the end for the Kosovo problem?,by Ioannis Armakolas and Maja Maksimovic

Kosovo Security Force: Quo Vadis?, by Giorgos Triantafyllou

The difficult path of Turkish-Israeli rapprochement, by Theodore Tsakiris

Armenian presidential elections 2013 , by Theocharis Grigoriadis and Sofia Saridi

First Briefing Note of the Albanian Elections Observatory

The prospects for Greek-Israeli relations: a view from Athens , by Thanos Dokos

The controversy over the UÇPMB war memorial in the Preševo Valley, by Ioannis Armakolas and Maja Maksimovic

The perspectives for Cypriot gas development after the second stage of co-operation agreements, by Theodore Tsakiris

Serbia’s resolution on Kosovo and Metohija and Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, by Ioannis Armakolas and Maja Maksimovic

How competitive is a Cyprus-Turkey pipeline?, by Theodore Tsakiris

FYROM’s EU accession hopes: A delicate balance, by Pavlos Koktsidis

Do EU sanctions produce results? The Iran oil embargo case, by Marina Georgopoulou

The (in)significance of the UN Palestinian vote, by Nada Ghandour-Demiri

The agreements between Nabucco and Shah Deniz, by Theodore Tsakiris

Ukranian Parliamentary Elections 2012, by Theocharis Grigoriadis and Dimitrios Moschos

Potential Unfulfilled? What lies ahead for Cypriot-Israeli co-operation in 2013, by Theodore Tsakiris

ELIAMEP Thesis Greek defence spending in times of crisis: The urgent need for defence reforms, by Thanos Dokos and Christos Kollias

ELIAMEP Working Papers Economic Relations between Greece, the Middle East and North Africa, by Evangelos Venetis

Exploiting opportunities of decision-making in networks by weak actors – The case of hydrocarbons exploration in Cyprus, by Stylianos Papageorgiou

The Conflict in Syria, by Thanos Dokos

Babylution: A civic awakening in Bosnia and Herzegovina?, by Ioannis Armakolas and Maja Maksimovic

The Kurdish issue: 1984 – 2013, by Pantelis Touloumakos

Learning from the Arab Spring: Turkish foreign policy in flux, by Ioannis N Grigoriadis

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Books by ELIAMEP research fellows

The European Court of Human Rights: Greece: the case of Implementing migrants from Strasbourg’s Afghanistan, Pakistan Judgments on and Bangladesh Domestic Policy By Angeliki Dimitriadi Edited by Dia Anagnostou

Circular Migration The Greek Crisis and between Europe and European Modernity its Neighbourhoud: Edited by Anna Choice or Necessity? Triandafyllidou, Ruby Edited by Anna Gropas and Hara Kouki Triandafyllidou

The Fall-Out from the Eurozone Crisis: Turning EU Integration Greece in the Euro: into a Positive Sum Economic Delinquency Game or System Failure? By Loukas Tsoukalis By Eleni Panagiotarea in “Progressive Politics after the Crash”

EU Citizenship and Intra EU Mobility: a Virtuous Circle Even in Times of Crisis By Anna Triandafyllidou and The Greek Crisis in the Michaela Maroufof Media in By George “The Euro Crisis and Tzogopoulos the State of European Democracy. Contributions from the 2012 EUDO Dissemination Conference”

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies The Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is the official journal of ELIAMEP, published four times a year by Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge Journals, London).

The aim of the journal is to establish a line of communication with the Balkan and Black Sea regions, which until recently remained isolated from the European mainstream and are in need of serious comparative study, as are the individual countries, no longer 'at the edge' of Europe.

The principal disciplines covered by the journal are politics, political economy, international relations and modern history; other disciplinary approaches are accepted as appropriate. The journal will take both an academic and also a more practical policy-oriented approach and hopes to compensate for the serious information deficit on the countries under consideration. It provides a unique opportunity to establish a new paradigm of analysis for the region and one that attempts to break away from the traditional ethnocentric approaches and develop a deeper and more fruitful understanding of the area.

All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

South-East Europe and Black Sea Studies is abstracted/indexed in:

 America: History and Life;  C S A Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts);  Current Abstracts;  Historical Abstracts;  Humanities International Index;  Index Islamicus;  International Bibliography of the Social Sciences;  OCLC;  Sociological Abstracts;  Social Sciences Citation Index;  Social Scisearch;  Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition.

The Journal received its first Impact Factor in 2010.

In 2013 the 13th volume of the journal was published. The second issue was dedicated to “Migration, transnationalism and development in South-East Europe and the Black Sea region”.

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In the Media

Year after year, ELIAMEP’s presence in the Greek and foreign media grows, serving one of the Foundation’s main objectives which is to raise public awareness and provide valid analysis on issues related to European policy and international affairs. In 2013, its academic staff, research fellows and associates had a dynamic presence in the media with articles, interviews and quotations in newspapers, journals, radio and television stations from all around the world.

Articles written by ELIAMEP researchers and associates were published in well-known, widely circulated Greek newspapers and portals, such as Capital.gr, Ependitis, Ethnos, Kathimerini, Protagon.gr, Ta Nea, To Vima, Journalists’ Newspapers, The TOC, but also in foreign press and magazines, such as Global Times, Die Zeit and Le Monde.

Furthermore, in response to current important internal and international issues, such as the economic crisis, the political and social situation of Greece, European policy, the developments in Middle East and other international political issues, ELIAMEP representatives gave interviews to Greek and foreign television and radio stations and printed media. Among other were ABC, Al Jazeera, ARD, ARTE TV, Associated Press, Bloomberg, BBC, CCTV, CNBC, Deutsche Presse Agentur, Die Zeit, EU Observer, Financial Times, France 24, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Repubblica, La Vanguardia, La Razon, Le Figaro, Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, RAI radio, Reuters, RTL, Russia Today, Sveriges Radio, Tagesspiegel, TBS, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Voice of Russia and ZDF.

In conclusion, in 2013 ELIAMEP proved once again that it is considered as an independent and reliable reference point for journalists with regard to matters of national, European and global interest, gaining wide recognition in Greece and beyond its borders.

Online Presence

In 2013 ELIAMEP continued its effort to further expand its web-presence. In particular, the Foundation’s main website reinforced its role as a central channel of communication for disseminating information on a daily basis about our activities, publications, events and initiatives.

Special emphasis was given to the presence of ELIAMEP representatives in domestic and international media as well as to new research programmes, such as “A New Pact for Europe”, “From Austerity to Prospeity”, “CONFRONT”, “ASSESS”, “FRAGMEX” and “Integration Policies: who benefits?”. The website also offered special links where material related to the crisis in Turkey and in Ukraine could be founded. These links were being systematically updated covering developments.

Through the usage of social media, mainly Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, our Foundation managed to significantly improve its network and enhance the debate on its publications and activities.

Finally, ELIAMEP continued to develop its content partnerships with the renowned European information portals such as EURACTIV.

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Our Researchers’ Activities

Dia ANAGNOSTOU, Senior Research Fellow

In early 2013, Dia Anagnostou took up her new position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, where she teaches courses on comparative politics, European integration and human rights. In February of the same year, she participated in the MEDIADEM final event in Brussels where she gave a talk on “The freedom and independence of public service media in a plural media environment”. In March, Anagnostou presented a paper on “Recasting legal opportunities in transnational space: Ethnic and racial minorities in the Strasbourg Court” at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions in the workshop convened on the theme of “Legal mobilization in comparative perspective,” in Mainz, Germany. In April, she attended the third consortium meeting for the ANTICORRP Project in Florence. In November 2013, Anagnostou gave a talk on European institutions, minorities and the case of the Muslims of Thrace, at a conference held at Komotini on the theme “The Lausanne Treaty: 90 years later”. In the fall of 2013, Anagnostou became involved in two new research projects, one on the Roma and trafficking (CONFRONT, funded by the European Commission under ISEC) and one on vulnerable immigrants and integration (ASSESS, funded by the European Commission under the European Integration Fund). Within 2013, Anagnostou published an edited collection of studies on The European Court of Human Rights: Implementing the Strasbourg’s Judgments into Domestic Policy (Edinburgh University Press), and she was co-editor of and contributor to a special issue on gender equality and legal mobilization in Europe, which was published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society (Cambridge University Press).

Ioannis ARMAKOLAS, Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow

Dr. Ioannis Armakolas is Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP and Head of the Foundation’s South-East Europe Programme. He’s also Editor in Chief of the academic journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies which is published by Taylor & Francis Group in collaboration with ELIAMEP. Dr. Armakolas is Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of South-East Europe at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki). He teaches comparative politics, politics and society in Central and Eastern Europe, conflict analysis, and post-Yugoslav politics.

In the context of ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme Dr. Armakolas led or coordinated research on a number of projects. He co-led with Professor Dimitri Sotiropoulos the Albanian Elections Observatory, a group of analysts within ELIAMEP monitoring and analyzing developments before and after the milestone 2013 general elections in Albania. The Albanian Elections Observatory, the only of its kind internationally, published four reports, which achieved wide circulation and readership. During the same year Dr. Armakolas implemented the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung-funded project entitled “Promoting the Western Balkan accession process in the context of the Greek EU Presidency”. In the context of the project, two parallel opinion polls were conducted in Greece and Albania and the findings demonstrating attitudes and mutual stereotypes and misconceptions of the two societies were presented in Athens and Tirana. Dr. Armakolas coordinated the research project “How is the sovereign debt crisis affecting Greece’s relations with the Balkan countries and Greece’s standing the region? An initial impact assessment”, which was funded by Eurobank and researched by Dr Ritsa Panagiotou and Mr. Anastasis Valvis. Finally, in 2013 research for the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society-funded research project “Building new bridges in the Balkans: Understanding misconceptions between Greece and Kosovo” was conducted and the findings will be published in the following year.

In 2013 Dr. Armakolas gave lectures and papers at the workshop “Cultural policies and corridors in the Balkans and Turkey” organized by the University of Pennsylvania, at the conference “22 Years of International Development Assistance to Southeast Europe (1991-2013): Lessons for Donors and Recipients” organized by the University of the Peloponnese and the Balkans International Network, at the conference “Debating contemporary Albanian-Greek relations” organized by the Albanian Institute for International Studies, and the annual workshop of the Movement of Catholic Scientists and Intellectuals of Greece. Dr. Armakolas also taught at the international MA programme in Southeast European Studies of the University of Athens and the international summer school entitled “Nationalism, religion and violence in SE Europe” organized by the Hellenic International University.

In 2013 Dr. Armakolas published with ELIAMEP the following papers:

- “The Greek Public Opinion towards Albania and the Albanians: Social Attitudes and Perceptions”, Research Report, December 2013

- “Babylution”: A Civic Awakening in Bosnia and Herzegovina?”, ELIAMEP working paper no 34, Αugust 2013 (with Maja Maksimovic)

- “The Continuing Political Crisis in Bulgaria”, ELIAMEP Briefing Note 21, July 2013 (with Boyka Boneva)

- “The Beginning of the End for Kosovo Problem? The Agreement on Normalization of Relations Between Belgrade and Pristina and its Aftermath”, ELIAMEP Briefing Note 15, May 2013 (with Maja Maksimovic)

- “A Balkan hotspot: The controversy over the UCPMB War memorial in the Precevo Valley”, ELIAMEP Briefing Note 10, April 2013 (with Maja Maksimovic)

- “Serbia’s Resolution on Kosovo and Metohija and the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue: Is there a solution after the resolution?”, ELIAMEP Briefing Note 9, March 2013 (with Maja Maksimovic)

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- Albanian Elections Observatory Brief no. 1 (19 April 2013), no. 2 (27 May 2013), no. 3 (19 June 2013), no. 4 (13 September 2013) (all co-authored with group of experts)

Filippa CHATZISTAVROU, Research Fellow

In February 2013 Dr. Filippa Chatzistavrou, Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, delivered a public speech on the conference “European Governance” organized by EKEM and the Information Office of the European Parliament in Athens. In March, she gave a public speech on the Conference “European Foreign Policy and the EU crisis” organized by the NGO Kapodistrias atn the Information Office of the European Parliament in Athens. In May, she participated as a discussant in the Conference “The external dimension of a multi-tier, multi-speed European Union” organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies, CEPS, in Brussels. In June, she gave a public speech in the German-Greek web-debate « Austerity: Virtue or Downfall? » organized by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung & IDEA in Patras, Greece.

She published a book chapter on “Les premiers pas du projet européen: entre fondements théoriques et interprétations historiques”, in Hommes et réseaux: Belgique, Europe et Outre-mers, V. Dujardin & P. Tilly (dir.), P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2013. In May, she published a paper on “Les Etats de l’Union européenne, moteurs d’une forme de gouvernance inédite: le Trio de Présidences”, in the academic journal Revue du marché commun et de l’Union européenne. She published a book chapter on “The Permanent Representatives to the EU: Going Native in the European Field?”, in The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals, edited by Didier Georgarakis & Jay Rowell (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. She published with D. Katsikas, G. Tirkides, an article on “A Strategy for Strengthening EU’s Presence in Global Financial Regulation Reform”, in the TGAE IV Report, The Contribution of 16 European think tanks to the Trio presidency of the EU and an ELIAMEP briefing note on “Legal challenges of Croatia’s accession to the EU”. She was the scientific editor and undertook in collaboration with Lydia Avrami, ELIAMEP’s Research Assistant, the preparation of the Guide “The Greek Parliament and the European Union”, published by the Representation of the European Commission in Greece.

Dimitra DIMITRAKOPOULOU, Research Fellow

In 2013, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Research Fellow at ELIAMEP and lecturer at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (AUTh), published the chapter “Introduction to new media and citizen journalism” in the book of Elsa Deliyanni under the title Law and Communication in blogs and new media published by Nomiki Vivliothiki. In collaboration with Elsa Deliyanni, they have also published the paper “L’application de nouveaux médias en classe. Emploi d’un blog scolaire à des fins de projection et de diffusion de modèles médiatiques et culturels alternatives” in the journal Adjectif and they have also presented their paper at the 1st International Conference on Reimagining Schooling organized by the University of Macedonia (28-29 June 2013) in Thessaloniki. Dimitra has also co-authored with Eugenia Siapera the paper “Internet and Journalism:

traditional and alternative forms” published in the journal Communication Issues (issue 14-15). She has also presented her paper on “The online imprint of participatory journalism” at the conference under the title “The legal and social dimensions of the Internet” organized by the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (7-8 June 2013). She is also the co-author of the paper “Transnationalized Discourses: The emergence of common semantic structure and the synchronicity of distinct national debates on the financial crisis" together with Christian Baden and Giovanni Motta presented at Sunbelt XXXIII, International Network for Social Network Analysis in Hamburg (21-26 May 2013). She was also a reviewer for the fourth consequent year in the section “Communication Technology (CTEC)” for the Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication held in Washington DC (8-11 August 2013).

In 2013, Dimitra participated as a national researcher for Greece in the European Concerted Research Action COST IS0906 "Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies". She also took part as the national researcher for Greece in the EU research project entitled “Women and the media in the EU media industries in Europe. Study on Area J of the Beijing Platform for Action” coordinated by the University of Liverpool and funded by the European Institute for Gender Equality. The consortium has published the Review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States: Women and the Media - Advancing gender equality in decision-making in media organisations delivering comparable data on the number of women in decision-making positions across major media organisations in the 27 EU Member States and Croatia.

Angeliki DIMITRIADI, Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Angeliki is a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on Afghan migration to Greece, in ‘IRMA-Governing Irregular Migration: States, Actors and Intermediaries’ since December 2012, a research project funded by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology.

In 2013 she authored the ‘Background Report on Afghan migration’ for the IRMA project and coauthored with Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou an article on ‘Migration management at the Outposts of the EU: the case of Italy and Greece’s Borders’, forthcoming from the Griffith Law Review. She also completed her book on ‘Transit migration to Greece from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan’, published in Greek by Nissos in November 2013. She presented the ‘Background Report on Afghan migration’ at the 1st IRMA conference held in Athens in July 2013. She also presented the paper ‘What kind of asylum and which destination? Afghan arrivals to Greece’ at the THEMIS International Conference (24-26 September 2013) at Oxford and the paper ‘Afghan asylum seekers and irregular migration to the EU’ at the ‘Migration policy conference’ organized by the Netherlands Ministry of Security and Justice in the Hague (9-10th December 2013). Angeliki Dimitriadi lectured at the training seminar organized on July 30th 2013 in Athens by the Directorate General for Interpretation Conference in Brussels, on EU immigration and asylum policies, in light of the upcoming Greek Presidency. She also lectured on July 1st 2013 at the Multinational Peace Support Operations Training Center in Kilkis, on the management of irregular migration in the Mediterranean.

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Thanos DOKOS, Director General

In January Dr. Dokos spoke on about the geopolitical consequences of the European economic crisis at the annual conference of the Control Risks, in London. In February he coordinated a workshop on homeland security at the Hellenic National Security Academy, in Athens. He also participated to a conference on the Arab revolts, organized by the University of Minho, in Portugal and was a speaker to the Athens Energy Forum. In March he attended the Annual Conference of the Arab Reform Initiative in Cairo. In April he was a speaker at the annual EXPOSEC DEFENSEWORLD 2013, held in Athens. Later in the month he participated to a workshop organized in Brussels by the European Union Institute for Security Studies on the EU’s Global Strategy and to a conference in Nicosia on the Cyprus problem. In May Dr. Dokos was a speaker at a workshop organized by EDAM and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Istanbul on energy developments in the Eastern Mediterranean. He also lectured on NATO’s future role at the Multinational Peace Support Operations Training Centre in Kilkis, Northern Greece.

In June he attended the 4th Mediterranean Conference on Oil and Natural Gas in Athens. He also spoke about Iran at the 2nd workshop organized in Brussels by the EU-Non Proliferation Consortium and about the geopolitics of energy at a conference in Nicosia. In late September he attended a Wilton Park conference on Hydrocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean. In October he spoke at a conference on security challenges for Southern Europe organized by the LSE Ideas Programme in London. In late October he participated to the 15th Annual Dialogue of Research Centres of East Asia and Europe, held in Istanbul and to a bilateral meeting between ELIAMEP and SWP in Berlin, focusing on European developments.

In November he was a speaker at a conference on “Hydrocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean”, organized by PRIO and at a conference on “Mediterranean Security: Global Shifts, Regional Consequences” organized by the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Genoa. He also participated to a workshop at the Hellenic Air Force War College on geopolitical developments in the Mediterranean basin and the Arab world. In December he chaired a panel at the Global Thinkers Forum, held in Athens and he organized a workshop on European defence, with the support of NATO’s Public Diplomacy.

During the year, he also organized three training seminars, two on energy and one on Turkey, taught one graduate course on conflict resolution at the Department of Political Science, University of Athens, lectured at various military schools and academies, attended two meetings of the Greek- Turkish Forum and wrote a number of papers, including an ELIAMEP policy paper on Greek military expenditures and defence policy, a working paper on Iran’s nuclear programme, an article of Greece’s geostrategic importance published by the Brookings Institution, a note on relations between Greece and China, published in the Asia Series of the Clingedael Institute and finally an article on the management of the Cyprus financial crisis and one of Greece’s geopolitical role, both published by Europe’s World. He was also a contributor to the European Nuclear Detection Architecture (EuroArch) project, coordinated by START and the University of Maryland.

Kyriakos FILINIS, Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Dr Kyriakos Filinis is a post-doctoral research fellow at the ELIAMEP Crisis Observatory. In 2013 he produced the following publications: “Τα τυπικά και άτυπα μονοπάτια της ελληνικής αγοράς εργασίας” [The formal and non-formal paths of the Greek labor market], Ελληνική Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής Επιστήμης [Greek Journal of Political Science], Τεύχος [Issue] 40/2013; “Greeks are lazy and Unskilled” (with D. Katsikas) , in Tsoukalis L. (eds), Greek Myths and Reality, The Brookings Institution; “Απομόχλευση τραπεζικού συστήματος και αγορά εργασίας” [Deleverage of the banking system and the labor market], Κείμενα Πολιτικής του Παρατηρητηρίου για την Κρίση [Crisis Observatory Policy Papers], N. 5/2013. He also participated in an EU-funded study on “Mapping and analysing bottleneck vacancies on EU Labour Markets”, conducted by Ramboll Management Consulting A/S (Denmark). In 2013 Dr Filinis participated in the 3rd Young Researchers Meeting of the Greek Society for Political Science in Athens, on which he presented a paper on “The hesitant reform of the European labor markets: 1990-2005”, and in the International QCA Expert Seminar, ETH, Zurich, where he presented a paper on “The necessary and sufficient conditions of the reform of the European unemployment compensation systems: 1990-2005”, 23/10/2013-24/2013.

Eda GEMI, Research Fellow

Eda Gemi is Research Fellow at ELIAMEP and assistant coordinator of the IRMA project (“Governing Irregular Migration. States, Migrants and Intermediaries at the Age of Globalisation”) which runs from October 2012 to September 2015. During the last year, she focused mostly on publication of background report on Albanian irregular migration to Greece, empirical investigation of irregular Albania migration both in Greece and Albania and dissemination activities. During the launch event of the IRMA project that took place on July 16th, 2013, she presented the result of the background report on “Albanian Irregular Migration to Greece: A new typology of crisis”. From the 24-27 August 2013 Ms Gemi participated in the IMISCOE 10th Annual Conference titled “Crisis and Migration – Perception, Challenges and Consequences”, organized by the University of Malmö, Sweden. During the workshop titled “From the Economic Crisis to an Integration crisis?” she presented the results of the IRMA research project. In The Balkan Forum on Regional Cooperation, organized in Thessaloniki, Greece between 7-9 February 2013, with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, she spoke about the Albanian and Bulgarian circular migration.

Together with Professor Anna Triandafyllidou she published in the Journalists’ Newspaper on 18th of November 2013 an article on the New Migration Code. In November 2013 she published a Briefing Note 24/2013 on the new legislation code on migration where she commented on whether it provides new solutions to old problems.

From January to July 2013 she was Project Coordinator of IMNET project (“Developing a cooperation network to link representatives of Mediterranean Member States facing similar challenges as Greece in respect to the integration of third country nationals”), financed through the European Integration Fund by EU funds (75%) and national funds (25%). On 22 March 2013 she opened the second IMNET workshop entitled “Immigrant Integration in Italy: Policies, Practices and Actors”, which took place in

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Rome, Italy. During the IMNET international conference organized in Athens on 29 June 2013, she analysed “The institutional framework of Greek migration policy”.

Ms Gemi is the national coordinator for Greece of two European projects: “Integration policies: Who benefits? The Development and use of indicators in integration debate” and theEuropean Integration Website both sponsored by European Commission. She has co-authored a chapter entitled “Circular Migration between Greece and Albania: beyond the state?” (with Thanos Maroukis), for the edited volume by Anna Triandafyllidoy “Circular Migration between Europe and its Neighbourhood: Choice or Necessity?”, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ioannis N. GRIGORIADIS, Research Fellow

On 7 February 2013, Dr. Ioannis N. Grigoriadis delivered a lecture entitled “Greek Politics in 2013: Reform, Security and the EU Presidency”, at the German Institute for International & Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik-SWP), Berlin. On 5 April 2013, he presented a paper entitled The Paradox of ‘Synthesis’: Reconciling Religion and Ethnicity in Greece and Turkey” at the ISA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, United States. On 28 May 2013, he delivered a presentation entitled “The 'Shallow Europeanization' Debate: Lessons from Turkish Foreign Policy” at the Izmir University of Economics Europeanization Workshop, Izmir. On 5 September 2013, he delivered a presentation entitled “Turkey’s EU Membership Debate: Its Meaning for Europe”, at the European Studies Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg. On 12 October 2013, he delivered a presentation entitled “The Energy Scramble in the Eastern Mediterranean: Reconciling Regional Conflict and Prospective Economic Cooperation” at the 47th Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans. On 5 December 2013, he delivered a lecture entitled “Turkish Politics: Political Parties and Domestic Challenges” at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)/Institute of International Economic Relations (IDOS) Seminar on Turkey, Athens. On 6 December 2013, he delivered a lecture entitled “Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Between the Syrian Stalemate and the Egyptian Coup” at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens.

In 2013 Dr. Grigoriadis authored a book chapter entitled “A Grécia e a Crise do Euro: Da Beira do Colapso à Inevitável Reforma [Greece and the Euro Crisis: Greece and the Euro Crisis: From the Brink of Collapse to the Inevitable Reform]” in Elena Lazarou and Daniel Edler (eds.). Perspectivas para o Futuro da União Europeia. [Perspectives on the Future of the European Union] (Rio de Janeiro: Cadernos Adenauer, 2013), pp. 73-80. He also published a policy paper entitled “Learning from the Arab Spring: Turkish Foreign Policy in Flux”, ELIAMEP Working Paper, No. 32, March 2013. He also authored numerous opinion columns in the Greek daily "Kathimerini" and the Turkish daily "Taraf".

Theocharis N. GRIGORIADIS, Research Fellow

In 2013, Theocharis Grigoriadis completed his postdoctoral research associateship at ZEW Mannheim and undertook a visiting associate professorship in Economics and East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In the summer semester 2013 he taught one undergraduate course in Economic Growth and two graduate seminars in Transition Economics and in Energy Economics with focus on Eastern Europe. In the winter semester 2013/14 he taught one undergraduate course in Game Theory and two graduate seminars in Political Economics and Comparative Economic Systems. His paper “Compromising Islam with Empire: Bureaucracy and Class in Safavid Iran” appeared in Iran & the Caucasus, his paper “Aid Effectiveness and Imperfect Monitoring: EU Development Aid as Prisoner’s Dilemma” appeared in Rationality & Society, and his paper “Aid Effectiveness and Donor Preferences: European Aid Systems in the former Soviet Union, 1992-2007” appeared in the Journal of International Development. He presented papers on the 2013 European Economic Association Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, and on the 2013 American Political Science Association Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, United States. With his team of interns at ELIAMEP he wrote two briefing notes on the elections in Georgia and Armenia.

Ruby GROPAS, Research Fellow

Dr Ruby Gropas co-edited a book on ‘The Greek Crisis and European Modernity” with colleagues Anna Triandafyllidou and Hara Kouki. The book was published by Palgrave in English, and Ekdoseis Kritiki in Greek. She also co-authored (with A. Triandafyllidou and H. Kouki) an article on Greek higher education that appeared in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies and a chapter on ‘Towards an Anthropology of the European Union. Insights from Greece’, in A. Salvatore et al (eds) Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond, Berlin: Nomos. Ruby also participated in a research initiative launched by the FIIA and EPC on the European External Action Service and the national diplomacies of the Member States. In the context of this project she co-authored with George Tzogopoulos a chapter on the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the way in which Greece has responded to the EEAS. Dr. Gropas also took part in ELIAMEP’s 10th Anniversary Annual European Seminar in July 2013 where she presented the first findings of an e-survey on ‘Emigration in Times of Crisis from Southern Europe and Ireland’ which she has coordinated with Anna Triandafyllidou from the European University Institute’s Global Governance Programme. Ruby participated once again in the Think Global-Act European project of Notre Europe where she published a contribution on “EU Migration Policy and Development Cooperation: Time for a Paradigm Shift.” Most importantly, on the 6th of September 2013, Ruby and Loukas Paraschis were blessed with the arrival of their second child, Evangelia.

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Panos HATZIPROKOPIOU, Research Fellow

In 2013 Dr. Panos Hatziprokopiou published a chapter, co-authored with Frangopoulos, Y., on “Immigrants’ Entrepreneurship in Greece at Times of Crisis: Ambivalent Paths and the Persistence of Institutional Barriers” in “Entrepreneurship in the Balkans: Diversity, Support and Prospects”, edited by V. Ramadani and R.C. Schneider. In July, again in cooperation with Y. Frangopoulos, he published a report on “Emerging ethnic economies at times of crisis: socio-economic and spatial dimensions of immigrant entrepreneurship in Athens”. In the context of IRMA, he co-authored a concept paper with Anna Triandafyllidou on “Governing Irregular Migration: States, Migrants and Intermediaries at the Age of Globalisation”. The following papers he presented were published in conference proceedings: Hatziprokopiou and Frangopoulos, Y. (2013) “Ethnic economies and everyday spaces in Athens at times of crisis” on Changing Cities: Spatial, morphological, formal, & socio-economic dimensions. Skiathos, Greece, 18-21 June 2013, and Evergeti, V. and Hatziprokopiou, P. (2013) “On Muslims, Turks and migrants: perceptions of Islam in Greece and the challenge of migration” on the International Conference Myths of the Other in the Balkans; Representations, social practices and performances, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 24-26 February 2011. In addition, he presented a paper on “Integration models and Southern European experiences: the case of Greece in comparative perspective” at the iMnet project final workshop, held at Harokopeio University, 29 June 2013; and, a paper on “Negotiating religious diversity on Greek urban space: places of worship and religious practices of Muslims in Athens”, at the Conference The hesitant pace of migration policy in the Greece of crisis, held at the Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 17- 18 January 2013 (based on joint work with V.Evergeti). He was also invited to give lectures at Postgraduate Winter School “Migration in the margins of Europe”, organised by the Netherlands Institute Athens and the Institute of Migration & Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, in Athens on 10.01.2013 and at the (postgraduate) Global Politics Summer School (Greece 2013) “Different Stories about Europe”, organised by the Department of Mediterranean Studies (University of the Aegean), the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the Center for International and European Studies (Kadir Has University Istanbul), and the Center for Global Politics (Free University Berlin), in Rhodes on 18.07.2013.

Anna KANDYLA, Junior Research Fellow

Until May 2013, Anna worked as a research assistant for the FP7 research project MEDIADEM (European Media Policies Revisited: Valuing & Reclaiming Free and Independent Media in Contemporary Democratic Systems), in the frame of which she carried out research as well as management and dissemination tasks, including the co-organisation of the final European conference of the project in Brussels, Belgium (February 2013). She has also been engaged with two ongoing research projects: CONFRONT (which examines the forms of trafficking affecting children in Roma communities), and ASSESS (which evaluates the integration measures for vulnerable migrant groups). During this year, Anna published a journal article on ‘Media policy-making in Greece: Lessons from digital terrestrial television and the restructuring of public service broadcasting’ at the

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 9: 2, 133–152 (co-authored with Evangelia Psychogiopoulou).

Dimitrios KATSIKAS, Research Fellow

In 2013, Dimitris Katsikas, Research Fellow at ELIAMEP and Head of the Crisis Observatory, produced several publications, including “The Greek Economic Crisis in 2012”, in CIDOB International Yearbook, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (to be published); “Sollte Griechenland in der Eurozone bleiben - und falls ja, warum?", Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, (“Should Greece remain in the Eurozone and, if so, why?”, German Federal Agency for Civic Education); “The Future of Greece”, in IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook, Med. 2013, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (IEMed); “Brain drain, a new challenge for the Eurozone”, Opinion, Euractiv.com, 25 November 2013; “The Financial Crisis as a Catalyst for European Integration”, 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 18-21 September 2013, Warsaw, Poland; “Greeks are Lazy and Unskilled”, Brookings Institution, in the Policy Paper series "Greek Myths”, with Kyriakos Filinis; «Η ΕΡΤ στην Χώρα των Μεταρρυθμίσεων» [“ERT in Reformland”], Opinion, Protagon.gr, 19 July 2013; «Επιμένοντας στην Ίδια Συνταγή: Μια πρώτη Αποτίμηση της Συμφωνίας Διάσωσης της Κύπρου» [“Insisting on the same recipe: a first assessment of the bailout agreement for Cyprus”, Opinion, Crisis Observatory, 4 April 2013; “A Strategy for Strengthening EU’s Presence in Global Financial Regulation Reform”, with F. Hatzistavrou and G. Tirkidis, in Think Global - Act European, March 2013; “The Never-ending Greek Crisis: A Tragedy without a Catharsis”, Revista de Estudios Europeos, 60 (published in February 2013); “Impacts of the crisis on access to healthcare services: Country reports on Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia and Luxembourg”, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) -Case Study on Greece.

He also participated as a member of the research team in the project on “Impacts of the crisis on access to healthcare services: Country report on Greece”, commissioned by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), and coordinated the project on “Fragmentation and Exclusion: Understanding and Overcoming the Multiple Impacts of the Crisis”, funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Bilateral R&D Cooperation between Greece and Germany 2013-2015).

Hara Kouki, Junior Research Fellow

Hara Kouki has been a researcher within the context of IME Project (Identities and Modernities in Europe) that run from May 2009 to April 2012. As part of this project, Hara along with Prof Anna Triandafyllidou and Dr. Ruby Gropas worked on the edition of the volume ‘The Greek Crisis and Modernity’ which was published during 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan and its Greek translation by Kritiki Publishers. Moreover, on the event of this publication Hara was invited to speak in November 2013 on crisis discourses

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in Greece to a meeting entitled ‘The Crisis Discourse across Europe: Absent but Everywhere’ which was organized by LSE and Open Society Foundations. Hara has also been responsible for the project ‘Youth and Gender Civic Participation in the Balkans’, in which ELIAMEP is a partner. As part of this project, Hara has participated in the kick-off meeting in Zagreb and has organised a two hour seminar in Novi Sad in 2012. In January 2013 Hara organized a study trip in Thessaloniki entitled ‘Learning from your Neighbor’ in cooperation with the NGO Symbiosis. Through workshops and talks with activists, policy makers and journalists, participants acquainted with diverse experiences and a different model of regional women network concerning citizenship mobilization.

Michaela MAROUFOF, Junior Research Fellow

Michaela Maroufof presented the findings of the MOVEACT research project in an event organized by ELIAMEP, in cooperation with the Europe Direct center it hosts, held in Athens in January, titled ‘“All Citizens Now”: Intra-EU Mobility and the European Crisis’. During the same month she presented a paper on undocumented immigrants and domestic work in Greece in a conference titled ‘The Hesitant Pace of Migration Policy in the Greece of Crisis’, organized by EPLO, in Athens. She authored the chapter ‘“With all the cares in the world”: Irregular migrant domestic workers in Greece’ in ‘Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares?’ edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, published by Ashgate and she co-authored with Anna Triandafyllidou the chapter ‘EU citizenship and intra EU mobility: a virtuous circle even in times of crisis’ in ‘The Euro Crisis and the State of European Democracy’, edited by Bruno de Witte, Adrienne Héritier and Alexander H. Trechsel, published by the European University Institute. In the framework of the IRMA research project she published a background report on Georgia titled “Irregular migration between Georgia and Greece: everyone can cross a ‘low fence’” and she presented her preliminary findings on Georgian irregular migration on the launch event of project, organized by ELIAMEP in July. Finally, in December she participated in a public debate on migration and migration policy in Greece organized in Athens, within the framework of ‘Money Show’, by the NGO Ioannis Kapodistrias, where she focused on policy issues with regards to domestic work.

Marina NIKOLOVA, Junior Research Fellow

Marina Nikolova is a PhD candidate in the University of Peloponnese, Department of Social and Educational Policy. She is part of the ELIAMEP Migration Research Team and in 2013 was mainly involved in the research of the Ukrainian migration to Greece for the project “IRMA - Governing Irregular Migration: States, Actors and Intermediaries”, funded by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology. She completed interviews with main actors in the Ukrainian migration communities in Greece, with public servants in Athens and with key actors from related organisations in Ukraine. As a result of the initial primary and secondary research, she finalized the background report: “Ukrainian migration in Greece: There and back again and straight ahead for one more time”, Deliverable 2.1, IRMA Project Governing Irregular Migration. The findings were presented at the launch event of the project IRMA which took place in Athens, July 2013. Marina

Nikolova - together with Eda Gemi, is national coordinator for Greece of the European Web Site on Integration (EWSI), with main coordinators for all the 28 EU member-states Migration Policy Group in Brussels. In April, she took part at the Workshop: “Innovative Technologies in Migration Services” in the framework of the 12th International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Conference on e-Business, e-Services, e-Society entitled "Collaborative, trusted and privacy aware e/m-services" I3E 2013 in Athens co-organized by the University of Pireus and presented “The European Website for Integration: An online community in practice”. Together with Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou, co- authored the chapter “Bulgarian migration in Greece: Past trends and current challenges” in Dimitrova, T. and Kahl, T. (eds) Migration from and towards Bulgaria, Berlin: Frank and Timme. The paper “Irregular migrants in Greece: problems in health service provision” was presented at the conference "The hesitant pace of migration policy in the Greece of crisis" organized by the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) in Athens, in January 2013.

Eleni Panagiotarea, Research Fellow

Dr. Eleni Panagiotarea published her book ‘Greece in the Euro: Economic Delinquency or System Failure?’ with ECPR Press (August 2013), in the monograph series. She was invited to officially launch the book in a specially convened panel session, in the context of the 7th ECPR General Conference (Sciences Po Bordeaux, 4-7 September 2013), titled “Europe and the Financial Crisis: A Political System in Formation?”. On the same conference, Eleni also presented a paper, ‘To Cut or not to Cut? A Cautionary Tale of Fiscal Discipline in Times of Austerity’ in the panel on “Budgetary Responses to the Fiscal Crisis: Changes in Budgeting Practices and Institutions”. She also participated in the SPERI (Sheffiled Political Economy Research Institute) Annual Conference (1-3 July, 2013), “Beyond Austerity vs Growth: The Future of the European Political Economy”, where she presented a paper on ‘Stuck with Austerity? Time to Bring Politics and National Varieties of Capitalism Back In’. Both the ECPR and the SPERI papers have been part of Eleni’s ongoing research in the context of a research grant received by the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, aimed to examine the effects of troika-based adjustment on national democratic processes of economic decision-making. Eleni wrote a research paper for ELIAMEP’s Crisis Observatory, ‘IMF in the Eurozone: A Case of Too Close to Fail?’ (No 6, June 2013). She also wrote a policy paper for the Observatory, ‘Squaring the Circle? Understanding the Legitimacy of Conditionality’ (no 2, March 2013), which was one of the four background papers for ELIAMEP’s 10th European Seminar, “Europe in Crisis, Citizens in Protest” (4-7 July, 2013). Finally, she submitted written evidence to the House of Lords, European Union Select Committee, on ‘The Role of National Parliaments in the European Union’ (27 September, 2013).

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Evangelia PSYCHOGIOPOULOU, Research Fellow

In 2013, Dr. Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, research fellow at ELIAMEP, coordinated the EU-funded research programme MEDIADEM (European Media Policies Revisited: Valuing & Reclaiming Free and Independent Media in Contemporary Democratic Systems). In this context, she engaged in various research, project management and dissemination activities. In February 2013, she participated in MEDIADEM’s final conference ‘Media freedom and independence: Trends and challenges in Europe’, organised by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities and the Association of European Journalists in Brussels (Belgium). The event was hosted by the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou delivered a speech on ‘Introduction to the MEDIADEM project, aims and achievements’. In the framework of the MEDIADEM project, she also produced the following publications: a) ‘Policy implications of MEDIADEM, an EU-funded research project on media policies in 14 countries for media freedom and independence’ (third MEDIADEM policy brief, available at: http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/findings); b) ‘Media policy-making in Greece: Lessons from digital terrestrial television and the restructuring of public service broadcasting’, 9 International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, no. 2, 133-152 (co-authored with A. Kandyla); and c) ‘Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens, 29 februari 2013, nr. 40397/12, Neij en Sunde Kolmisoppi tegen Zweden, Pirate Bay, internet, copyright’, 14 European Human Rights Cases (8-20 August 2013), 1949-1956.

From April 2014 onwards, Evangelia Psychogiopoulou has been involved in the EU-funded research project ‘ANTICORRP’ (Anticorruption Policies Revisited. Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption). Together with her colleague, D. Anagnostou, she has been responsible for the scientific coordination of work package 10 of the project, ‘Monitoring anticorruption legislation and enforcement in Europe’. This seeks to reach a better understanding of the pertinence and effectiveness of the rules adopted by international organisations and European regional organisations (i.e. the EU and the Council of Europe) in curbing corruption. In May 2013, she participated at the third ANTICORRP consortium meeting, which took place in Florence (Itay).

In addition, during 2013, Evangelia Psychogiopoulou continued her research in the fields of human rights and EU cultural policies. She authored the following book chapters: ‘The EU and cultural rights’, in A.F. Vrdoljak (ed.), The cultural dimension of human rights law, 159-185 (Oxford University Press); and b) ‘Under what conditions do national authorities implement the ECtHR’s rulings and rights-expansive policy change? Religious and ethnic minorities in Greece’, in D. Anagnostou (ed.), The European Court of Human Rights: Implementing Strasbourg’s judgments on domestic policy, 143- 165 (Edinburgh University Press) (co-authored with D. Anagnostou). She also published the following journal article: ‘State aids to the publishing industry and cultural policies in Europe’, European State Aid Law Quarterly, no. 1, 69-82.

In June 2013, she participated in the conference ‘Culture and international economic law’ where she presented a paper on ‘Culture in the EU’s external economic relations’. This conference was organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht in Maastricht (the Netherlands). On 15 November 2013, she presented a paper entitled ‘Taking cultural aspects into account in EU law and policies: An appraisal of article 167(4) TFEU’ at the international symposium ‘European law and cultural policies’, co-organised by the Research Center on State and Constitution of the Catholic University of Louvain and the Institute for European Studies of Saint-Louis University at the

European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium). In December 2013, she presented a paper on ‘Welfare rights in Greece: The role of fundamental rights challenges’ at the workshop ‘Social rights in crisis in the Eurozone: The role of fundamental rights challenges’, organised by the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, Senior Research Fellow

In February, Dimitri traveled to Oxford and gave a presentation on the social and political consequences of the economic crisis in South Eastern Europe. His seminar, which took place in St. Antony’s College, Oxford, focused on data on post-communist South Eastern societies, before and after the economic crisis.

In March, Dimitri was invited by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Berlin where he participated in a panel discussing the consequences of the economic crisis in Greece. This was a public event organized by this institution at its central headquarters.

In April, he participated in a two-day long conference of the University of the Aegean, on Lesbos island, where he presented a paper on civic associations in Greece in the period following the transition to democracy (1974).

In June, Dimitri participated in the international conference of the Council of European Studies (CES), which took place in Amsterdam. He presented a paper on state management in South European countries during the economic crisis.

In July, Dimitri took part in ELIAMEP’s European Seminar, which this year took place in Nafplion. He made a presentation on the response of Greek civil society to the challenges and social consequences of the economic crisis in Greece. In the same month, he also made a similar presentation in the ‘Seminars of Ermoupolis’, an annual series of seminars, organized by Greece’s National Science Foundation (EIE) at Ermoupolis, Syros island.

In September, Dimitri participated in the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Bordeaux. He was a co-convener of a panel discussion on changes in the welfare states of Southern Europe in the wake of the economic crisis.

In October, Dimitri participated in a panel of speakers who discussed ‘The Role of Higher Education’ on a one-day conference titled ‘Educating for the Modern Global Economy’. The conference was organised by the Salzburg Global Seminar and the Athens Office of the Fulbright Foundation, in Athens. In the same month, Dimitri published a chapter in the edited volume titled Greek Paradoxes: Patronage, Civil Society and Violence (edited by Katerina Rozakou and Heleni Gkara, Athens: Alexandria editions). His contribution was titled “Patronage relations and new forms of political participation” (in Greek).

In November, Dimitri published a chapter in an edited volume titled The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union (edited by Jean-Michel De Waele, Fabien Escalona and Mathieu Vieira, London: Palgrave 2013) which came out in that month. Dimitri’s publication, titled “The Panhellenic Socialist Movement”, was on the Greek socialist party in the 2000s. In the same month,

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he traveled to Helsinki, to the United Nations University, where he participated in a workshop on international aid and state building. Dimitri presented a paper on international aid in a post-conflict environment and compared the cases of Greece and Italy in the immediate post-WWII period (1944- 1951). He also traveled to London for a workshop organized in the context of ANTICORRP, a research project in which ELIAMEP is a partner. He presented a paper on accountability and transparency mechanisms in Bulgaria and Romania since their accession to the European Union. This paper was part of the project’s Work Package 11.

In December, Dimitri was invited to the University of Bremen, where he presented a paper on the civil society in Greece in the wake of the economic crisis and also participated in a day-long conference on the future of European integration in view of the 2014 European Parliament elections. In the same month, he also gave a public talk in Athens in the context of a workshop on Greek- Albanian relations organized by ELIAMEP’s Southeast Europe Programme. He discussed ELIAMEP’s attitudinal sample survey of perceptions of Greeks towards Albanians. In the same month, Dimitri published a chapter in the edited volume State, Economy, Society (19th-20th centuries): Essays in Honour of Professor George B. Dertilis (edited by Ada Dialla and Niki Maroniti, Athens: Metaichmio). His contribution was titled “George Dertilis’ ‘Power Web’ and the Two Worlds of Greece’s Post-War Party Politics, 1950-1967” (in English).

Finally, Dimitri continued to publish book reviews and opinion articles in the Athens Sunday newspaper To Vima tis Kyriakis. In 2013 he published 9 book reviews and 2 opinion articles.

Anna Triandafyllidou, Member of the Scientific Board

Anna Triandafyllidou is Full-time Professor at the Global Governance Programme (GGP) of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute. Before joining the Programme, she was a Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens in the period 2004-2012, where she is currently a Member of its Scientific Board.

She continues to be the Scientific Coordinator and main researcher of the project IRMA entitled: Governing Irregular Migration. States, Migrants and Intermediaries at the Age of Globalisation, funded by the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology through the Action “ARISTEIA” for the period 2012 – 2015. In July 16th, 2013, she opened the launch event of the ‘IRMA’ project, which took place in Athens, where she presented the scope of the research and focused on the importance of framing and understanding the policies for the management of irregular migration.

Anna Triandafyllidou is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002 and a member of the Spinelli Group since its foundation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies and serves as national expert in the OECD Network of International Migration Experts (formerly SOPEMI). Professor Triandafyllidou acts as scientific evaluator of research grants for the European Research Council (Advanced Investigator and Consolidator Grants), the Research Framework Programmes of the European Commission (FP5, FP6, and FP7), the European Science Foundation, the Norface ERA-NET network, and several national research agencies (of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland). Her recent

books include: Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares? (2013, ed., Ashgate); Circular Migration between Europe and its Neighbourhood. Choice or Necessity? (2013, ed., Oxford University Press); The Greek Crisis and Modernity in Europe (with R. Gropas and H. Kouki, eds, Palgrave, 2013, also in Greek, by Kritiki publishers.

Theodoros TSAKIRIS, Research Fellow

Dr. Theodoros Tsakiris, Assistant Professor, Geopolitics of Hydrocarbons at the University of Nicosia, is the Head of ELIAMEP’s Geopolitics of Energy programme. During 2013 Dr.Tsakiris prepared 9 analytical briefing notes that were published on the Foundation’s website while authoring 2 peer-reviewed articles on the geopolitics of East Med Gas that were published by the US Journal of Energy Security and the Hellenic Edition of Foreign Affairs. Dr.Tsakiris also wrote op- eds and/or gave interviews to Deutsche Welle, Capital, Kathimerini, Ethnos, Natural Gas Europe and the Athens News Agency.

Dr. Tsakiris also organized and participated in two in-depth seminars ELIAMEP organized on issues of energy security and geopolitics with the Institute of International Economic Relations-IDOS (Spring 2013) and the Centre for Energy Policy of the University of Nicosia (September 2013), the latter organized under the aegis of the Greek Ministries of Energy & Foreign Affairs. He also participated in several international energy conferences and closed-colloquia that were organized – inter alia – by the International Herald Tribune, the Cypriot Ministry of Energy, LSE Ideas, the Wilton Park, the Atlantic Council of the United States and the Brussels-based Egmont Institute.

Loukas Tsoukalis, President of the Board of Directors

Loukas Tsoukalis was a keynote speaker at the debate ‘The Greek crisis and the Eurozone: a cure worse than the disease?’, organized by Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome on 6 February 2013. On 28 February he spoke on the eurozone crisis at the international conference on ‘Prospects for Revival in the Eurozone-and what place for Britain in Europe?’, co-organised by the Policy Network, the European Commission’s UK Representation and the City of London Corporation. On 6 March he spoke at the Symposium ‘Konstantinos Karamanlis: then and now’, held in Athens and organized by the Karamanlis Foundation and Megaron Plus. On 21 March he participated in the public debate on ‘How to restore Greece’s lost credibility’, co-organized by ELIAMEP, IOBE, KANTOR, the Citizens Movement, Transparency International-Greece and Megaron Plus. On 16 April he spoke at the event on ‘Signing of the Athens EU enlargement Treaty 2003: 10 years later‘, organized in Athens on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the signing of the EU’s enlargement Treaty. On 18 April he spoke to the Association of Greek Businessmen, on the eurozone crisis and challenges for Southern states. On 20 April he delivered a speech at the public debate organized by the French-German Youth Office (OFAJ/DFJW), in co-operation with the French and German Ministries of Foreign Affairs, held in Thessaloniki. On May 2013 he gave a series of lectures on the Euro crisis in Brazil, invited by the

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Brazilian research institute Fundação Getulio Vargas. Specifically, he gave a lecture to ‘2013 School on the European Union’ (6-7/5), participated in the 2nd Europe Day Conference (8/5) and in the 2nd Workshop on European Union Research (10/5). On 20 May he delivered a speech on the future of Europe at a public debate in Zagreb, which took place in view of the country’s accession to the EU on 1 July 2013. On 31 May he was the moderator of the discussion on ‘Working together towards European recovery’, with keynote speaker the President of Eurogroup and Minister of Finance of the Netherlands, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, and co-organized by the Crisis Observatory of ELIAMEP and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Athens. On 10 June he was also the moderator of the discussion on ‘The euro: assessment and prospects’ with keynote speaker Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and former Eurogroup President. On 13 June he participated in the debate on European economic crisis, in the framework of the three-day seminar of the programme ‘European Young Leaders: 40 under 40′, co-organized by EuropaNova και Friends of Europe, in Athens. On 17 June he delivered a speech at the public debate ‘Crisis and the Financial Sector: Developments and Prospects in Greece and Europe’, co organized by the Greek International Business Association (SEVE) and ELIAMEP’s Crisis Observatory, in Thessaloniki. On 4-7 July he participated in the 10th European Seminar of ELIAMEP, on ‘Europe in Crisis – Citizens in Protest’, held in Nafplio. On 29 July he was the moderator of the lecture of the Prime Minister of Italy,Mr. Enrico Letta, on ‘How can Europe Come out of the Crisis?’, held in Athens. On 19 September he spoke at the roundtable discussion on understanding the Euro Crisis at the 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, held in Warsaw. In October 2013 he joined the Department of European & International Studies in King’s College (London) as a Visiting Professor. On 10 October he was the moderator of the discussion on ‘Technology as a spark for growth’ with keynote speaker Mr. Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, held in Athens Concert Hall. On 12 October he spoke at the Economic Conference AGORA, in the 4th Athens Biennale. He was also one of the speakers at the book launch events for the title: ‘A Contemporary Odyssey’, an autobiography by former President of Cyprus George Vassiliou, held at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 15 October and at the University of Cyprus on 29 November 2013. On 17 October he delivered the Alcuin Lecture 2013 at the University of Cambridge, on ‘Is there a future for the European Union – and with Britain in it?’. He was the keynote speaker at the ‘Sino-European Strategic Dialogue’, organized by the leading European and Chinese international relations institutes, CICIR, Asia Centre, DGAP and EUISS, in Beijing, on 21-22 October. On 31 October and 1 November he delivered public talks at Harvard University, on the general theme of Europe in a Post-Crisis World. On 7 November he spoke at the public event organized by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, on the Amphitheatre of the Old Parliament Building in Athens. On 8-9 November he participated in the conference of the Levy Economics Institute, on ‘The Eurozone Crisis, Greece and the Experience of Austerity’, held in the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre. On 14 November, he delivered a speech at the international conference in Belgrade on ‘The Fate of Democracy: Global Challenge, Local (Non) Responses’, which was the 10-year anniversary event of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence. On 26 November he participated in the panel discussion on ‘What Binds Europe Together?‘, at the Presidential Residence, Schloss Bellevue, on an invitation by the Federal President of Germany, Mr Joachim Gauck. On 9 December he was the moderator of the discussion on ‘Global governance out of order?’, with keynote speaker Mr Pascal Lamy, former Director General of World Trade Organization and Honorary President of Notre Europe-Institute Jacques Delors. On 12 December he participated in the public debate on ‘Dilemmas, challenges and opportunities for Greek foreign policy’, organized by ELIAMEP, IOBE, KANTOR, the Citizens Movement, Transparency International -Greece and Megaron Plus. On 13 December he spoke at the open discussion on ‘Is National Consensus Possible in

Greece?;’ in the framework of the 1st Annual Conference of the Crisis Observatory of ELIAMEP. He also published many articles in several European journals and websites.

George TZOGOPOULOS, Research Fellow and Website Editor

In 2013 Dr George Tzogopoulos published his book The Greek Crisis in the Media: Stereotyping in the International Press (Ashgate). The Greek Crisis in the Media debates and dissects the extent to which the Greek response to the financial crisis has been given fair and balanced coverage by the press and questions how far politics and national stereotypes have played their part in the reporting of events. By placing the Greek experiences and treatment alongside those of other EU members such as Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain, Tzogopoulos examines and highlights similarities and differences in the ways in which different countries tackled the challenges they faced during this crucial period and explores how and why the world's media reported these events.

Additionally, Tzogopoulos participated in projects such as the 2014 ECFR Scorecard and V-DEM. He also published the following articles and book chapters:

- ‘Interpreting the Greek crisis: The British media perspective’, Greece and Britain since 1945, David Wills, Cambridge Scholars Publishing - ‘Is a Greek success story possible?’ Süddeuropa Mitteilungen, September 2013 - ‘Griechische Politik und die Goldene Morgenröte’, Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West, June 2013 - ‘The other side of Greece’s international image’, Briefing Note, ELIAMEP, May 2013 - ‘Greece and the EEAS’, EPC Paper, No 33, March 2013 (With Ruby Gropas)

Anastasios VALVIS, Junior Research Fellow

In 2013, Anastasios Valvis, Junior Research Fellow in ELIAMEP, was Editorial Assistant, member of the managing team of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. In February 2013 he participated as a speaker in two international conferences in Athens. The first one was on “European Union – Latin American relations after the Santiago de Chile Summit” and the second one on “22 Years of International Development Assistance to Southeast Europe (1991-2013) – Lessons for Donors and Recipients”. In June 2013, Mr. Valvis participated as a speaker in the 6th Pan-hellenic conference of Environmental Management and Policy in Mytilene and in December 2013 he also participated as a speaker in a conference entitled: “EU and Greece at the crossroad of crucial developments: Policies, strategic choices, and prospects” in Loutraki. In 2013, Mr Anastasios Valvis contributed with a chapter entitled ‘China and North-Korea’ to the book: “China and the rest: China’s relations with Europe and the world” and with a chapter entitled ‘The Prespa Lakes case study – Uniting Societies’ to the proceedings of “Innovative Practices in Biotourism - Prespa and Korce Conferences”. From March 2013, Mr Valvis is also participating in a research project on “Evaluating Greek NGOs” funded by the Ministry of education and the EU.

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Our Team

Board of Directors

President

Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor of European Organization, University of Athens

Vice President

Thanos Veremis, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Athens

Secretary General

Eleni Papakostantinou, Legal Advisor, Athens

Treasurer

Panagis Vourloumis, former Chairman of the Board of Directors & CEO – OTE S.A., Athens

Board Members

Costas Apostolidis, CEO and Chairman of the BoD, RAYCAP Pavlos Apostolidis, Ambassador (ad hon.), Former Director of the National Intelligence Agency and Former Minister of the Administrative Reform and E-Governance Ministry Eleni Dendrinou-Louri, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece Thanos Dokos, Director-General, ELIAMEP Eleftherios Economou, General ret., former Chief of the Hellenic Police Force, Former Minister of the Administrative of Public Order Ministry Achilleas Mitsos, Former Director-General, Directorate-General for Research, European Commission, Professor of International Economic Relations, University of the Aegean George Pagoulatos, Professor of European Politics and Economy, Department of International & European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics & Business and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges Alexis Papahelas, Managing Editor, Kathimerini, Athens Dimitrios Papalexopoulos, Managing Director of Titan Cement Company S.A.

Honorary Committee Theodore Couloumbis, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens George David, Chairman, Coca Cola 3Ε, Athens Nikiforos Diamandouros, European Ombudsman and Professor Emeritus, University of Athens Minos Zombanakis, President GISE A.G, Athens

International Advisory Board Peter Bofinger, Professor of Economics, Money and International Economic Relations, University of Würzburg; Member of the German Council of Economic Experts Kemal Dervis, Vice President, Brookings Institution, Washington DC; Former Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Turkey Shai Feldman, Professor, Director of Crown Center on Middle East Studies, Brandeis University Jeffry Frieden, Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University François Heisbourg, Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris Bassma Kodmani, Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative, Paris Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia Roger Liddle, House of Lords; Chair, Policy Network, London Mark Mazower, Professor of History, Columbia University, New York Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Jerome Levy Professor of Economics and Executive Vice President, Bard College, New York Riccardo Perissich, Executive Vice President, Council of the US and Italy; Former Director General of the European Commission Volker Perthes, Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin Yezid Sayigh, Senior Associate, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center Ivan Vejvoda, Vice President, German Marshall Fund, Washington, DC Dame Helen Sarah Wallace, Emeritus Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science/ Foreign Secretary and Vice President, British Academy Lan Xue, Cheung Kong Chair Professor, Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing / Director, China Institute for S&T Policy

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Scientific Council Dia Anagnostou, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, [Minorities, Theories of Nationalism, Southeastern and Eastern Europe]

Othon Anastasakis, Director of the South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), and Director of the European Studies Centre

Janis Emmanouilidis, Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels, [European Integration, Common Foreign and Security Policy]

Nikolaos E. Farantouris, Ass. Professor at the International European Studies Department, University of Piraeus, and Chairholder of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Law and Policies (Competition, Energy and Transport)

Kevin Featherstone, AcSS. Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science

Christos Gortsos, Professor of International Economic Law at the Panteion University of Athens/ Secretary General, HBA (Hellenic Bank Association)

Gikas A. Hardouvelis is Professor of Finance and Economics in the University of Piraeus- Greece

Aristides N. Hatzis, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law & Theory of Institutions University of Athens, Department of Philosophy & History of Science

Asteris Huliaras, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Peloponnese

Alexis Iraklidis, Professor of International Relations, Panteion University

Panayiotis Ioakimidis, Professor of European Integration, University of Athens

Stathis Kalyvas, Professor of Political Science at Yale University –

Antigoni Lymberaki, Professor, Panteion University

Manos Matsaganis, Assistant Professor of Employment and Social Policy at the Athens University, Department of International and European Economic Studies

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos , Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens

Anna Triandafyllidou, Professor and Director of a Programme on Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium and on currently

Staff

Director General

Thanos Dokos

Deputy Director

Elizabeth Phocas

Senior Research Fellows

Dia Anagnostou, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, [Minorities, Theories of Nationalism, Southeastern and Eastern Europe] Nikos Koutsiaras, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, [European integration, Employment and Labour Market Policy, Social Policy, EMU and Macroeconomic Policy] Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos , Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, [Europeanization of public policies. State, democracy and social protection in Southern Europe and in post-communist Balkans]

Research Fellows

Filippa Chatzistavrou, Attorney at Law, External Collaborator, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens [National Governments and Administrative Integration in the EU, EU Institutional Law, Theories of European Integration] Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Lecturer, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [online and participatory journalism, social media and networks, new media literacy, hate speech on web 2.0 platforms] Effie Fokas [European Identity and Religion, Theories of Nationalism] Eda Gemi, Political Scientist, European Programme Development Officer, Centre for Vocational Training – K.E.K. EFKLEIDIS [Migration, Social Integration, Southeast Europe] Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University [Turkish politics, Middle East Politics, EU politics, Energy politics, Nationalism, Democratisation] Dr. Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Visiting Researcher-DAAD Fellow; Humboldt University of Berlin [Political Economy, Comparative Economic Systems, Foreign Aid, Religion and Economics, Russia and the former Soviet Union, Israel] Ruby Gropas, Lecturer, Law Faculty, Democritus University of Thrace [Human Rights, European Integration, EU Foreign Policy, Balkans, Migration] Dimitrios Katsikas , Elected Lecturer [International and European Political Economy] Eleni Panagiotarea, D.Phil, University of Oxford [Economic Governance in EMU, Political Economy, European Public Policy]

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Evangelia Psychogiopoulou [EU Law, Cultural and Media policies, Human Rights, Institutional Aspects] Theodoros Tsakiris, M.A. in International Security Studies [Geopolitics of Energy, Energy Security Policy, Post-Soviet Studies, U.S. and E.U. Foreign and Security Policy] George Tzogopoulos, PhD Media and Communication Studies, ELIAMEP Website Editor [Media and politics, European public sphere US and EU foreign policies, transatlantic relations] Evangelos Venetis , Senior Researcher, Department of Arabic, Persian and Turkish, School of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leiden [Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Shiite Islam, Iran, Religion and Politics, Greek Diaspora in the Middle East]

“Stavros Costopoulos” Research Fellow

Ioannis Armakolas, Managing Editor of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Taylor & Francis, London)[Politics in the Western Balkans; Civil and Εthnic Conflicts; Nationalism and Εthnic Ρelations; State Βuilding; Transitional Justice and Reconciliation; Cultural Heritage, Identities and War]

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Angeliki Dimitriadi, PhD [Immigration & transit migration, Asian migration, European asylum policies] Kyriakos Filinis, PhD, Political Science and Public Administration [Political Economy]

Junior Research Fellows

Nikos Daskalakis, Attorney at Law, Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, War Studies, King’s College London, [International Relations, Nationalism, Greek Crisis] Apostolos Fasianos [Economic Development, International Economics] Bledar Feta, [Democratization,Transition and European Integration of Western Balkans, Ethnic Conflicts, State-building, Albanian Populations Outside Albania] Anna Kandyla [Political sociology, Media policy, Media effects, Political communication] Dina Karydi [European Policy & the Third Sector, Democratisation & Participations, Models of Governance] Hara Kouki [Contemporary History, Human Rights, Social Movements, Non Governmental Organizations and Civil Society] Michaela Maroufof [Migration and migration policy in Greece and the European Union] Marina Nikolova [Μigration in South-Eastern Europe, Μigration and Ιntegration] Pantelis Touloumakos, PhD candidate, Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, University of Athens [History of Modern Turkey] Anastasios Valvis, PhD candidate of Political Science and International Relations, University of Peloponnese, Assistant Editor of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Taylor & Francis, London), [Greek Foreign Policy in the Balkans, Environmental Security, International Development Assistance in SEE]

Inters

Agolli Skerlinda Angeli Danai Donn Aliya Georgiadou Hara Karakitsios Alexandros Kryeziou Elsa Maksimovic Maja Metallinou Lida Pahyla Ioanna Papakonstantinou Anastasia Triantafyllou Yorgos Zavou Alexandra

Head of Administration Nina Papaioannou Activities Coordinator Matina Meintani (on maternity leave)

Dimitra Tsigkou Development Officer and Europe Direct Coordinator Alexandra Nikolakopoulou Executive Assistant to the President of the B.D. Haroula Hioti Accountant Yannis Poulakis Assistant Accountant Sofia Hantzopoulou

Special Advisors Giorgos Kapopoulos , Journalist, IMERISIA, Athens Evangelos Kofos , Historian / Expert on the Balkans, Athens Alkis Kourkoulas , Journalist, TO VIMA, Athens Alexandros Mallias, Ambassador (ad hon.), Constantinos Maniatopoulos, ex. Director General, Energy Division, European Commission Mikhail L. Myrianthis , Energy Expert Ioannis Alexios Zepos, Ambassador (ad hon.)

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Research Associates Marianthi Anastasatou, Economist, Reseach Associate, Council of Economic Advisors [Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Competition, International Trade] Ekavi Athanassopoulou, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, [U.S. Foreign Policy, Turkey, Israel, Organised Crime] Jens Bastian, Economist, Member of the EU Task Force for Greece (TFGR) [Balkan Economy] Panos Hatziprokopiou, Tutor at the Department of Spatial Planning & Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, [Migration, labour market, urban sociology & geography, nationalism] Evangelos Ilias-Tempos, Expert-Counsellor, Ηellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [European Union & European Defence Policy] Antonis Kamaras, Adviser to the Mayor of Thessaloniki, [Corporate Internationalisation, Εmerging Markets] Andreas Kintis, PhD, University of Hull, UK, [European Affairs] Christos Kollias, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly, [Defence Economics] Tania Kyriakou, Lawyer and Instructor, LLM programmes of the School of Law of the University of Liverpool [Philosophy of law, European Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights] Stella Ladi, Lecturer, Department of Politics and History, Panteion University [Europeanization, Public Policy] Elena Lazarou , Assistant Professor of International Relations, Centre of International Relations, School of History and Social Sciences, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro [European Integration, External Relations of the EU, Turkey, Brazil] Panagiotis Liargovas, Professor, University of Peloponese [International Economics] Antigoni Lyberaki, Professor, Panteion University [Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Labour Market, Welfare State, Immigration] Panagiota Manoli, Lecturer on Political Economy of International Relations, Mediterranean Studies Department, University of the Aegean [Regionalism, Black Sea area, European Neighborhood Policy] Thanos Maroukis, [Migration, Social Theory, Labour Markets] Lina Papadopoulou, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, [Hellenic, Comparative and European Constitutional Law] Takis Pappas, Assistant Professor, University of Macedonia [Comparative study of extraordinary leadership in democracy, mass radicalism, and patronage politics] Platon Tinios, Economist, Assistant Professor in the University of Piraeus [Public Finance, Social Policy, Population Ageing, Labour Economics] Dimitris Tsarouhas, Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, [Europeanisation, European Political Economy, Social Democracy, Welfare Politics and Labour Relations, Greek-Turkish Relations, EU-Turkey Relations] Sappho Xenakis , PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, Alexandros Yannis, PhD, European External Action Service, European Union, Brussels [EU Foreign policy, Southeastern Europe and Black Sea]

Junior Research Associates Dimitris Antoniou, PhD, University of Oxford, UK, [Religion and Politics] Alexander Kentikelenis, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology and King’s College, University of Cambridge [Political Sociology, International and Comparative Political Economy, Public Health] Myrto Stasinopoulou, MPhil candidate, University of Oxford, UK, [Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Economy] Maria Ververidou, M.A. Bilkent University – Ankara / M.A. SOAS – London, [Turkish Politics] Kleopatra Yusef, [Irregular Migration, Gender Equality, Migration Politics in Arab countries]

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