Dr. Spyridon N. Litsas is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is also a Visiting Professor of International Relations and Eastern Mediterranean Politics at the Institut d’ etudes politiques de Grenoble (SciencesPo at the University of Grenoble) and a Visiting Professor of International Relations and Strategic Analysis at the Joint Supreme College of War of the Hellenic Armed Forces. He has obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK. He is teaching, researching and publishing on War Theory, Strategic Analysis, Security Issues such as Jihadism, Politics of the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa, US & Russian Foreign Policy in South-Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, Turkish Foreign Politics etc. His most recent publications include: ‘Stateness and Sovereign Debt: Greece in the European Conundrum’ (with Prof. Kostantinos Lavdas & Professor Dimitrios Skiadas), ‘The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition: Multipolarity, Politics and Power’ (eds. with Professor Aristotle Tziampiris), ‘Foreign Policy Under Austerity: Greece’s Return to Normality?’ (eds. with Professor Aristotle Tziampiris), ‘The European Common Security and Defense Concept: Opprotunities and Challenges’, Mediterranean Quarterly, 2017, vol. 28, no.3. pp. 56-67.
Dr. Aristotle Tziampiris is Professor of International Relations, Chair of the Department of International and European Studies and Director of the MSc Program in Energy: Strategy, Law & Economics at the University of Piraeus. He is also Standing Fellow at New York University's Remarque Institute, member of the Executive Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), Academic Advisor to the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) and Academic Coordinator for the Erasmus+ "Eastern Mediterranean Regional Training Partnership" Program.
