Liaropoulos N. Andrew

Material:

International Relations & Strategic Studies

Title:
Associate Professor

Office:
203 (Gr. Lambraki 126 Str.)

Office Hours:
Monday 13:00-14:00 &
Wednesday 10:00-11:00

Personal email:

Bio

Dr. Andrew Liaropoulos is an Associate Professor in the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus, specializing in International Relations and Strategic Studies.

He graduated in 2000 from the Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University. He completed his postgraduate studies during the period 2001-2002 at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University in Wales, focusing on Intelligence and Strategic Studies.

He received his PhD in 2006 from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University in Wales. His research interests include international security, strategy, intelligence, cybersecurity, European defense and security, and hybrid threats.

He also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journals Journal of Information Warfare (JIW) and Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies (JEAIS), and as a researcher at the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

During the period 2015-2021, Dr. Liaropoulos served as Director of the “Information and Cybersecurity Laboratory” at the University of Piraeus. In 2024, he was appointed as a member of the Scientific Council of the Observatory for the Analysis of Hybrid Threats of the Ministry of Digital Governance.

– Introduction to Contemporary International Policy

– Intelligence and Security

– Euro-Atlantic Relations

– Cyberspace and International Relations

– European Defence, Security and Political Unification

– Foreign Policy Analysis

– Introduction to International Relations – Geopolitics of Energy

Publications

  • The Co-evolution of Technology and Warfare: Reshaping the Battlefield, co-editors Tracey German & Fotios Moustakis (London: Routledge, 2025).
  • ‘Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Future of Warfare’, in Mehmet Erin Erendor, ed. Cybersecurity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Weapons (London: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025), 134-144.
  • ‘The Geopolitics of 5G and EU Digital Sovereignty’, in Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Ioanna Kantzavelou, Leandros Maglaras & Helje Janicke, eds. Hybrid Threats, Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare (London: Routledge, CRC Press, 2023), 22-39.
  • ‘Digitizing the battlefield: Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Warfare’, in Artut Gruszczak & Sebastian Kaempf, eds. Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare (London: Routledge, 2023), 308-318.
  • ‘Securing Democracy in Cyberspace’, in Elias G. Carayannis, Evangelos Grigoroudis, David F.J. Campell & Sokratis Katsikas, eds. The Elgar Companion to Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in the Economy, Society and Democracy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2023), 130-144.
  • ‘Victory and Virality: War in the Age of Social Media’, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 24, 2 (2023), 198-203.
  • ‘The EU in the Era of Digital Geopolitics and the Challenge of Digital Sovereignty’, in van Brett Niekerk, Trishana Ramluckan & Neal Kushwaha, eds. Modelling Nation-state Information Warfare and Cyber-operations (Reading: Academic and Conference Publishing International Ltd, 2022), 35-52.
  • ‘Information as an Instrument of Power. Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine’, NATO OPEN Publications, vol.7, no.6 (2022).
  • ‘Digital Authoritarianism ‘Made in China’: Installing a Digital Dystopia’, National Security and the Future, 23, 1 (2022), 123-139.
  • ‘A Social Contract for Cyberspace’, Journal of Information Warfare, 19, 2 (2020), 1-11. 
  • ‘Russian Information Operations: A Pillar of State Power’, in Constantinos Filis, ed. A Closer Look at Russia and its Influence on the World (NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2019), 191-202.
  • ‘Cyberspace Governance and State Sovereignty’, in George C. Bitros & Nicholas C. Kyriazis, eds. Democracy and an Open-Economy World Order (Heidelberg: Springer, 2017), 25-35. 
  • ‘Exploring the Complexity of Cyberspace Governance: State Sovereignty, Multi-stakeholderism & Power Politics’, Journal of Information Warfare, 15, 4 (2016), 14-26.    
  • ‘Reconceptualizing Cybersecurity: Safeguarding Human Rights in the Era of Cyber Surveillance’, International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, 6, 2 (2016), 33-41. 

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