Prof. Pavlos Koktsidis

Lectures on International Relations, Foreign Policy, Security and Conflict Resolution at the American College of Thessaloniki. Previously worked as Visiting Professor and lecturer of International Relations at the University of Cyprus. He was project manager and researcher for the externally funded program «Rearranging the Puzzle of Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: Mapping Actors and Dynamics» [2020-2023] and for the joint EU EastMed Erasmus+ programme (2016-2019). From 2019 to 2024 coordinated the annual Virginia Tech University-funded seminars programme on Conflict Studies in collaboration with the VT Department of Political Science. He is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Studies of Politics and Democracy (ISPD). His research focuses on ethnic conflict and security analysis in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, state-building, war and the development of strategic thought in international relations. His work is regularly presented in international conferences, workshops and roundtable discussions (IPSA, ECPR, PSA). His research appears in internationally acclaimed peer-reviewed journals and book chapters (Journal of Ethnopolitics, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Eastern European Quarterly, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Civil Wars, Mediterranean Quarterly, Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, Perspectives on Federalism, Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe). He is author of the books Ethnofederalism in Cyprus: Territory, Power and Security (Routledge: London 2024), Strategic Rebellion: Ethnic Conflict in FYR Macedonia and the Balkans (Peter Lang: Oxford 2012), and editor of the book Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Contemporary Europe (Springer, Frankfurt 2015).