THE MINAS NOMIKOS AWARD FOR SECURITY RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
RIEAS launches the “Minas Nomikos Award for Security Research Excellence”, Click on to Read more: Greek version & English version and Amikam Nachmani award
RESEARCH AREAS
GREECE HAS ROLE IN BALKANS SECURITY
Andy Dabilis
(Journalist)
Copyright: http://greece.greekreporter.com
The International Intelligence History Association (IIHA) in collaboration with the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) organized the event Intelligence in the Mediterranean and the Balkans which brought together academics, historians, members of the private sector, political scientists, researchers, active and former intelligence officials and members of the security and armed forces to explore the history of intelligence and the current security challenges facing the Mediterranean and the Balkan regions….. Read more
HIGH PROFILED ECONOMIC CRIMINALS
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.
DANCE WITH TROIKAS
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
AND NOW.... ALL BETS ARE OFF!
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
EUROPE – SYRIZA-IZE OR SYRIA-NIZE
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
(Professor in international law and global political studies, based in Vienna, Austria. His previous book Geopolitics of Technology – Is There Life after Facebook? was published by the New York’s Addleton Academic Publishers. Just released is his newest book Geopolitics – Europe 100 years later).
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 10 July 2015
A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings (yet again, for the sixth year in a row, and for the third time this year only) no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the US and EU. Neither is comforting the latest pre-Davos summit released Oxfam study. It hints that 1% is fat and furious, as some 99% of us are too many on this planet. Will the passionately US-pushed cross-Atlantic Free Trade Area save the day? Or, would that Pact-push drag the things over the edge and mark an end of the unionistic Europe? Is the extended EU conflict with Russia actually a beginning of the Atlantic-Central Europe’s conflict over Russia, an internalization of mega geopolitical and geo-economic dilemma – who accommodates with whom, in and out of the Union? Finally, does more Ukrainian (and Eastern Europe) calamities pave the road for a new cross-continental grand accommodation, of either austerity-tired France or über-performing Germany with Russia, therefore the end of the EU? For whose sake Eastern Europe has been barred of all important debates such as that of Slavism, identity, social cohesion (eroded by the plunder called ‘privatization’), secularism and antifascism? Why do we suddenly wonder that all around Germany-led Central Europe, the neo-Nazism gains ground while only Russia insists on antifascism and (pan-)Slavism? ..Read more
