DIMITRIS KERIDIS

Dr. Keridis is an Associate Professor of International Politics at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece, and a senior research associate at the Karamanlis Foundation in Athens. His research interests include international politics with a focus on Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, European security, foreign policy analysis and theories of international relations, nationalism and democracy. His latest book published in Greek is entitled “The US Foreign Policy and the Conservative Counterrevolution: Bush, Terrorism, Iraq and Islam.” Dr. Keridis has served as the Constantine Karamanlis Associate Professor in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University (2005-2007), as the director of the Kokkalis Foundation in Athens, Greece (2001-2005) and of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1997-2001), and as a Lecturer of Balkan Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (1998-2001). Since 1995, he has been a Research Associate at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA), Cambridge, MA, USA, and since 2001, he has been the Director of the Olympia Balkan Studies Summer Seminars. D. Keridis is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Ph.D. 1998, MALD 1994) and holds a J.D. from the Law School of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1991).