Dr. John M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) delivered a paper on “The role of Open sources intelligence (OSINT) Networks in the Mediterranean Think Tanks: A tool for Geopolitical Analysis”organized by the Laboratory of Geocultural Analyses of the Broader Middle East and Turkey of the Faculty of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the European Institute of Geopolitics on 10-12 December 2012, Athens, Greece.