Ritsa Panagiotou and Nikolaos Tzifakis, “The Changing Role of Greece in the Western Balkans: Between Isolation and a Prominent Role”, in E. Athanasopoulou, C. Tsardanidis, and E. Fakiolas, (eds) The Foreign Policy of Greece: Options and Expectations in the 21st Century, Athens: Papazisis Publishers, 2020, …
Dr. Nikolaos Tzifakis and Tena Prelec, “From mask to vaccine diplomacy: Geopolitical competition in the Western Balkans”, in G. Fruscione, (ed.) Pandemic in the Balkans: Geopolitics and Democracy at Stake, Milan: Ledizioni Ledi Publishing, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), 2021, pp. 12-33.
Ritsa Panagiotou and Nikolaos Tzifakis published an article, “Do Small Powers Retrench? Greece in the Western Balkans during the era of SYRIZA governance”, Southeastern Europe, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2021, pp. 64-92 [Brill].
Prof Nikolaos Tzifakis was a speaker at the event “Building Bridges towards а common future: The Western Balkans on the path towards the European Union”, organised by MK91, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, October,29 2020 (Skopje). He also participated as a …
Prof Nikolaos Tzifakis participated as partner and principal investigator from the UoP team in a new Jean Monnet Network Project entitled “Europeanisation meets democracy from below: The Western Balkans on the search for new European and democratic Momentum (WB2EU)”. The Project is coordinated by: Österreichische …
Prof Nikolaos Tzifakis published an article entitled “The Western Balkans during the Pandemic: Democracy and rule of law in quarantine?”, SAGE, European View, October 11, 2020.
The article is available here.
Nikolaos Tzifakis published a policy brief with Florian Bieber, it is available here
Dr. Tzifakis spoke at the event held at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels on 13 November 2019. More information here
Dimitris Bouris, in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES), organized the 3rd edition of the Practitioner Engagement Series.
Three events took place:
➢ 22 November 2018 – “The EU in the Middle East and North Africa: taking stock and looking ahead”
With speaker Mr Colin Scicluna, Director and Deputy Managing Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf region in the European External Action Service, since 2017.
➢ 26 November 2018 – “The European Union and state-building in the Western Balkans”
With speakers Dr. Giulio Venneri, Policy Officer (Political Desk Albania), European Commission DG NEAR and Dr. Davide Denti, Policy Officer (fundamental rights desk Bosnia and Herzegovina), European Commission DG NEAR.
➢ 6 December 2018 – “25 Years Since the Oslo Accords: EU initiatives, Palestinian and Israeli Perceptions”
With speakers: Ms Ulrike Hauer (Former Head of the Political Section of the Office of the EU Representative for West Bank and Gaza), Dr Anis Nacrour (Former Head of the EU Delegation to Syria and Former Advisor to Tony Blair), Dr. Dalal Iriqat (Arab American University Palestine) and Prof. Sharon Pardo (Ben Gurion University).