Kostas Ifantis is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens. He worked as a Lecturer in International and European Politics at the Universities of Bradford and Portsmouth, UK (1991-1995). He was USIS Research Fellow at the Center for Political studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1998), Fulbright Scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002) and IAA Senior Research Fellow at the LSE. His papers have appeared in edited books and in periodicals such as Democratization, International Journal, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Review of International Affairs, Turkish Studies, etc.