In July 2016, United States National Defense University (NDU) students spent time in Athens during a regional cultural studies trip. Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director), Assistant Professor at the Webster University (Athens Campus) and Mrs. Aya Burweila (RIEAS Senior Analyst) met NDU students and discussed about Greek Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Security issues.

From Left to Right: Peter C. Oleson (Editor, AFIO Guide to the Study of Intelligence), Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director), Michael Herman (Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award Intelligence Practitioner and Scholar), and Joseph S. Gordon (Colin Powell Chair for Intelligence Analysis in the National Intelligence University, USA).

Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos delivered a speech on “Intelligence Studies in Greece” and coordinated a panel on: Read more

Harry Theoharis (left) Member of Hellenic Parliament, H.E. Abdulla A. Rahman Fakhroo (center) Executive Director, Permanent Committee for Organizing Conferences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar, and Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (right) RIEAS Director.

The Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) participated in the 11th Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future Conference 2016 on 30 May - 1 June 2016 in Doha, Qatar. Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) attended the panel on "The Encryption Controversy" and "The Presidential Race and the State of U.S. Policy", and Mrs. Antonia Dimou (RIEAS Senior Advisor) was commentator on the panel on "ISIS and Oil: How ISIS controls Oil Fields, How it Sells the Oil, and How it Uses Oil Revenues to Finance its Operations."

Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) delivered a speech on "How the Power of Information can be an asset in their career development" on 22 April 2016 in Byron College, Athens, Greece.

Webster Athens hosted a delegation of United States Air War College students on March 10, 2016, who were on a regional cultural studies trip. The event was hosted by the History Politics and International Relations Faculty and the Admissions Department of Webster Athens in pursuance of the military-friendly incomparable educational programs and workshops offered by the university for over 40 years. Read more

Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) participated in the panels on: "The meaning of democracy in the EU: 29 shades of grey", "Reforming the EU: Managing centripetal and centrifugal forces", and "Beyond the Dublin System: A new common European Asylum Scheme?" organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) at IDEAS LAB, "An EU Fit for Purpose?" on 25-26 February 2016 in Brussels, Belgium.

Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director), Antonia Dimou (RIEAS Senior Advisor) and Darko Trifunovic (RIEAS Senior Advisor) and Anna Abelmann (moderator) participated on the panel on" South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean – Different Energy Strategies , Similar Threats", on the Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection International Conference organized by the Zagreb Security Forum on 29 February – 1 March 2016, in Zagreb, Croatia.

Ioannis (John) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) presented a paper on "Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and Illegal Migration in Europe: Security Challenges in 2016." The international conference was organized by John Naisbitt University (Serbia), Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS/Greece), Institute for Transnational Studies (ITS/Germany), International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA/USA), Center for American Studies, Fudan University (China), and the Institute of Semitic Studies (USA) at John Naisbitt University, Belgrade (Serbia): 3-4 February 2016. Read more

Webster University President Elizabeth (Beth) J. Stroble travelled to Washington, D.C., last week to speak before the Senate Competitiveness Caucus on the subject of higher education and the 21st century workforce. The event was a panel discussion hosted jointly by the Senate Caucus and the Council on Competitiveness. Read more

Faculty from Webster Athens participated in a book presentation organized by the Research Institute for European and American Studies and featuring a panel of representatives from Webster, Greek news media and the diplomatic and intelligence services. Read more

Ioannis (john) M. Nomikos (RIEAS Director) presented a speech on "Greece's Illegal Immigration issue: Situation Analysis" in the International Conference "The Refugee Crisis and Its Implications for the European Union; Mapping the Right EU Policies"organized by the Sofia Security Forum, The European Council on Foreign Relations, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and the Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies on 16-17 November 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria. .....Read more

Webster University's Athens campus inaugurated a lecture series on International Relations, History and Politics on September 25, 2015. Read more