RESEARCH AREAS

Yannis Markovits (Ph.D)
(Author of a Book titled “In the traces of the economic criminal: a handbook of theory and practice” in Greek language by University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) (Publication Date: 03/08/ 2014)

The high profiled individuals are well-known, acceptable people, and usually serve as examples of success, achievement and accomplishment. They attract the media and  are welcomed on television shows and popular series.

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor based in Seattle, USA)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) – Publication date: 30 November 2014.

Ever since April, and a much publicized re-entry in the capital markets to secure a loan, the Greek PM Mr. Samaras has taken no breaks from advertising his government's supposed "success" in leading Greece "out of her crisis." With the exception of Mr. Samaras's narrow circle of advisers, everyone knows that this claim is bogus. In October, Mr. Samaras took another bold, but utterly inane, step in announcing that Greece was about to ditch the IMF and stand on her own two feet. The reaction from the markets was predictable: a mini panic ensued, interest rates climbed sky high, and irate EU officials made cutting remarks "off the record" about the Greek government's "unpredictability" and "lack of vision."... Read more

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor based in Seattle, USA)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 4 January 2015

Threatening howls have risen from the halls of "united" Europe at the announcement of early general elections in Greece, scheduled for January 25, 2015 – elections which, most likely, will bring to power the populist left-wing SYRIZA party...Read more

Tassos Symeonides
(Academic Adviser, RIEAS)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) – Publication date: 13 July 2015

Greece always devoured her talented, dedicated children with the same persistence as Cronus, the ancient Greek god, who would similarly devour his own sons as soon as they were born - fearing a prophecy that predicted he was going to be killed by one of his male offspring.

Greece has always done the same without distinction as to sex and as if there was no tomorrow.

As Greece sinks deeper and deeper in the worst life-and-death crisis of her modern history, the absence of the talented, the educated, and the truly dedicated on the front line is tragically and glaringly apparent...Read more

Dr. Andres de Castro
(Associate Professor and Researcher, ANEPE-Chile. PhD in International Security (IUGM-UNED Spain) and Full Member of FLACSO-España)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 9 August 2015

Following the tragedy where thousands of people drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe by its maritime border, and especially after the catastrophe where at least 700 people died at sea only 130 kilometers away from the Libyan coast in April 2015, the European Union (EU) reactivated the border debate and some measures were taken...Read more