Panayotis J. Tsakonas is a Professor of International Relations, Security Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece. He studied political science, international relations, and security studies at the Panteion University of Athens and Reading University, Great Britain. He has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations (Athens, Greece), NATO Research Fellow, post-doctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, and Academic Visitor at St. Antony's College, Center for European Studies, University of Oxford. He has worked as Chief International Affairs Analyst for the weekly New Europe, as Advisor on defense and strategic issues at the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense, and as Special Advisor at the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs on security issues and on Greek-Turkish relations. Professor Tsakonas has published multiple books, monographs, and articles on topics in international relations, regional security, and foreign policy analysis.