Senior Analyst in the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS). . She is a Political Scientist. Her main academic and research interests includes the broad spectrum of the processes of democratization in the Balkans, right-wing extremism in Europe and in the Balkans, Populism, Comparative Politics, Euroscepticism, Conspiracy theories, social movements, political parties, human rights and globalization. She is completing her PhD thesis at Panteion University in Athens (Greece) with emphasis on the political systems of three Balkan countries after the fall of Communism: Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. Mrs. Vera Tika has a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Panteion in Athens (Greece) and an undergraduate degree in Social Policy from the University of Panteion in Athens (Greece). She has been involved in different European projects concerning the phenomena of social and political radicalism, the development of the comparative research and secondary analysis (Socialdatanet). She is a member of the Hellenic Political Science Association (HPSA) and the Hellenic League of the Human Rights.
Mrs. Vera Tika speaks Albanian, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, English and some Bulgarian.
Her publications include the following:
●Book Review in Greek language, Emilio Gentile, La democrazia di dio,Lareligioneamericananell'eradell'impero e del terrore, (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006), Science and Society,p.g 98-101, 2009
Article published in the book ‘’ Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe. A renewal of protests and democracy’’ , Geoffrey Pleyers, Ionel N. Sava (eds.), 2015, ‘’From the margins to the frenzy rise. Right-wing - extremism in Greece. The case of Golden Dawn’’, Universitate de Bucurest, 2015, Romania
