Dr. Aristotle Tziampiris is Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus and Vice President of Greece’s National Documentation Center. He is Director of the MSc Program in American Studies: Politics, Strategy and Economics (taught in English in cooperation with New York University’s Center for Global Affairs), a member of the Board of Directors of “Study in Greece,” Visiting Non-Resident Fellow at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and Standing Fellow at NYU’s Remarque Institute. Dr. Tziampiris is Academic Advisor to the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), a member of the Executive Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), a member of the academic committee of the Eastern-Mediterranean Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, a founding member of the Israeli-Hellenic Forum, an Honorary Supporter of the Benaki Museum and co-recipient of its 2019 “Angelos Delivorrias” prize (largest donation in kind), a member of the Propeller Club (Port of Piraeus) and a “Champion” of Women Act (Greece). He is the author of Religious Faith and International Relations (Papadopoulos, 2023, in Greek); The Monroe Doctrine and the Greek Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); The Emergence of Israeli-Greek Cooperation (Springer, 2015); Faith and Reason of State: Lessons from Early Modern Europe and Cardinal Richelieu (Nova Science, 2009); Kosovo’s Endgame: Sovereignty and Stability in the Western Balkans (IAA, 2006); International Relations and the Macedonian Question (ELIAMEP, 2003, in Greek); and Greece, European Political Cooperation and the Macedonian Question (Ashgate, 2000; reissued Routledge, 2018). He has co-edited, among others, The New Eastern Mediterranean Transformed (Springer, 2021), The New Eastern Mediterranean (Springer, 2019), Foreign Policy Under Austerity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition (Ashgate, 2015). He has published widely on Greek history and international relations in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean; his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, and The National Interest. He holds a PhD in Government and an MSc (Econ) in European Studies from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Middlebury College. He is married with two children.
PhD (Government), London School of Economics and Political Science, 1994–1999.
MSc (Econ) European Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1992–1993.
BA (Political Science), Middlebury College, 1988–1992 — Cum Laude; High Honors; College Scholar; Dean’s List.
Secondary Education: Anatolia College (Thessaloniki), 1982–1988; Deutsche Schule (external student, German language), 1980–1985; German Summer School, Middlebury College (1991).
GREEK FOREIGN POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & ENERGY DIPLOMACY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN & SOUTHEAST EUROPE; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY; CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; EUROPEAN POLITICAL HISTORY; TRANSATLANTIC & GREEK-AMERICAN RELATIONS; MODERN GREEK HISTORY.
Op-eds and reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Jerusalem Post, The National Herald, Kathimerini, International Herald Tribune, etc.; interviews and media commentary in Greek and international outlets. (Details in Full CV.)
