Symeon A. Giannakos is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in International Relations at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He is a 2011 Fulbright Scholar to Albania. He received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the Unive
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Symeon A. Giannakos is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in International Relations at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He is a 2011 Fulbright Scholar to Albania. He received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1990 and he teaches courses in international relations and comparative politics with a concentration on nationalism and ethnic conflict, and ethics and international affairs. He spent nearly five years (1993-1998) overseas, conducting research and offering courses in international and comparative politics of the Balkan region to East European students at the American University in Bulgaria. He has also taught at Norwich University in Vermont (1990-1993), at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia (1998-1999), and at Ohio University (1999-2002). His research focuses on national identity and conflict as well as on Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on the same topic and he is the editor of Ethnic Conflict: Religion, Identity and Politics (2002).
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