RESEARCH AREAS

Kvashnin Yuri (Ph.D in History)
(Head, European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN, RIAC Expert)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 1 January 2015)

Today the Russian-Greek economic relations are affected by a triple crisis: the ongoing crisis in Greece, the crisis in Russian–EU relations and Russia's economic hardships.
As for the first one, at the beginning of this year Greece's economic prospects looked bright. 2013 was the first year when Greece achieved primary surplus of 1.5 billion euro. In the passing year it showed new signs of recovery. In mid-December Greece's central bank slightly raised its forecast for economic growth this year to 0.7 percent and predicted growth of 2.5 percent in 2015.... 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

Anis H. Bajrektarevic
(Professor in international law and global political studies, based in Vienna, Austria, His previous book titled Geopolitics of Technology – Is There Life after Facebook? is published by the New York's Addleton Academic Publishers. His forthcoming book titled Geopolitics – Europe 100 years later is coming soon)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)
Publication date: 10 January 2015

There is a claim constantly circulating the EU: 'multiculturalism is dead in Europe'. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize their appearance in prism of the solid Union, as if they themselves lived a long, cordial and credible history of multiculturalism. Hence, this claim is of course false. It is also cynical because it is purposely misleading. No wonder, as the conglomerate of nation-states/EU has silently handed over one of its most important debates – that of European anti-fascistic identity, or otherness – to the wing-parties, repeatedly followed by the selective and contra-productive foreign policy actions....Read more

Ioannis (John) M Nomikos
(RIEAS Director)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 11 January 2015

Since 2005, RIEAS has extensively written on the need for the European Commission to consider the establishment of a new service focused on European Intelligence matters. Moreover, intelligence and security analysts in the European Union member states who promote the idea of a European common intelligence policy argue that the toughest challenge for the European Union has been the highly sensitive area of intelligence-sharing.

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

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 18 January 2015

In ancient Greek mythology, Chaos (Χάος), a dark, formless, underground void, was the element that gave rise to the spirits which, eventually, populated a diverse and beautiful universe with their descendants – gods, demi-gods and humans -- a universe that is studied to this day for the powerful, unparalleled and ever-lasting wisdom that it engendered....Read more

Antonia Dimou
(RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan)

John Nomikos
Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece)

Copyright: Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) – Publication on RIEAS web site on 23 January 2015

The upcoming January 25, 2015 national elections in Greece highlight a major challenge as they present a struggle between anger against austerity and fear of euro exit. The apparent reason that led to early national elections is the failure of the coalition government to obtain a parliamentary majority to appoint a candidate as president of the Republic . The hidden motive behind the declaration of early elections however was the volatile political landscape that made strenuous coalition government's compliance with the Troika's tough agenda thus postponing structural policy reforms by fear of the social effects that could be translated into high political cost. The Greek Prime Minister was between Scylla and Charybdis in terms of sustaining the coalition government and meeting Troika's demands for unimpeded economic support... Read more (English) & Read more (Russian)