[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Workshop: December 3, 2010

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at Princeton.EDU
Tue Nov 23 07:32:09 PST 2010


 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

 

Program in Hellenic Studies

 

Workshop

 

Greek Foreign Policy Towards the Black Sea Region:

>From Indifference to Engagement?

 

Emmanuel Karagiannis

University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

Visiting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies

 

Respondent:  Mark Beissinger, Department of Politics

During the Cold War, the Black Sea was one of the frontlines of
East-West confrontation. One of the main implications of the ending of
the Cold War was the emergence of new regions in the former Soviet
space. The Black Sea has become once again a crossroads of continents
where great powers and local states seek influence, compete or cooperate
with each other over resources. For reasons of geographical proximity,
those challenges concern first and foremost Europe and, therefore,
Greece. They arise from the region's demographic situation and migratory
pressures, inter-state and ethnic conflicts, terrorism and organized
crime. But opportunities also arise from the region's potential markets
that still remain outside the circuits of the world economy and its vast
energy resources. Against this background of geopolitical and
geoeconomic uncertainty, Greece has been formulating a new foreign
policy towards the Black Sea region and its littoral states.

 

Emmanuel Karagiannis is Assistant Professor of Russian and post-Soviet
Politics at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. He also
teaches courses at the Supreme Joint War College of Hellenic Armed
Forces and the Hellenic National Defense College.  He has taught
International Relations in Great Britain, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan. He
received his B.A in European Community Studies from London South Bank
University and an M.A in International Security Studies from the
University of Reading. He obtained his Ph.D. in Politics from the
University of Hull, with a dissertation on the Geopolitics of Oil
Transportation in the Caucasus Region. In 2005 he was a post-doctoral
fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Solomon Asch Center for the
Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict and in 2008 he was visiting scholar at
the Yale University Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies.
His books include Energy and Security in the Caucasus (New York &
London: Routledge, 2002) and Political Islam in Central Asia (New York &
London: Routledge, 2010). He has published extensively on energy
geopolitics and the political Islam in the former USSR and the Middle
East. He serves on the editorial boards of United States and British
scholarly journals and is a member of various professional
organizations. 

Friday, December 3, 2010

2:00 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103

Cosponsored by:

European Union Program

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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