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As. Prof. Emmanuel Karagiannis

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Programme: Master of Arts in Black Sea Cultural Studies
Modules: 1. Black Sea countries and the European Union
2. Black Sea region and Asia

 

EDUCATION

 

UNIVERSITY OF HULL

Department of Politics and International Studies

Ph.D., Political Science, January 2000

Dissertation title: “the Geopolitics of Oil Transportation in the Caucasus Region”

Hull, Great Britain

 

UNIVERSITY OF HULL

Graduate Research Institute

Postgraduate Certificate in Research Training, September 1998

Hull, Great Britain

 

UNIVERSITY OF READING

Graduate school of European and International Studies

Master of Arts, International Security Studies, September 1996

Reading, Great Britain

 

LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY

Department of Politics

Bachelors of Arts (with Honors), European Community Studies, July1995

London, Great Britain

 

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Winter 2011

UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA

Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies

Assistant Professor of Russian and post-Soviet Politics

Thessaloniki, Greece

February 2006 - Aug. 2010

UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA

Department of International and European Studies

Lecturer

Courses taught: The International Politics of Religion, The Geopolitics of Energy, Turkey: Society, Economy and Political System, Asian Powers in the International System, Comparative Politics, Strategic Studies (graduate level)

Thessaloniki, Greece

August 2003 - January 2005

KAZAKHSTAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS, AND STRATEGIC RESEARCH

Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor

Courses taught: Theories of International Politics, Caspian Petro-politics, Middle East Politics, The International Politics of Energy

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Oct. 2002 - May 2003

VARNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS

Department of International Economic Relations

Civic Education Project Visiting Lecturer

Courses taught: Politics and Economics of National Security, European Security after the Cold War and the International Politics of Oil.

Varna, Bulgaria

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

September- December 2010

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Hellenic Studies Program

Stanley J. Seeger Fellow, conducting research on the Greek foreign policy in the Black Sea Region

Princeton, NJ, USA

July 2008

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Fellow, Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy

Ithaca, NY, USA

January - February 2008

YALE UNIVERSITY

Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies

Visiting Researcher

Conducted research on terrorism

New Haven, USA

February 2005 - January 2006

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict,

Postdoctoral Researcher

Conducted research on political Islam in Central Asia.

Philadelphia

June 2003 - August 2003

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict,

Fellow, Summer Institute for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict

Philadelphia

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS

 

 

Karagiannis, E. (2010) Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir. New York: Routledge

Karagiannis, E. (2010) (ed.) Russia Today: Politics, Economics and External Relations, Athens: Papazisis (in Greek)

Karagiannis, E. (2006). Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Caucasus. Athens: Papazisis (in Greek)

Karagiannis, E. (2005). Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia: A Comparative Analysis. Athens: EKEM Center (in Greek)

Karagiannis, E. (2002). Energy and Security in the Caucasus. New York & London: RoutledgeCurzon.

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Karagiannis, E (2009). “The European Union External Energy Policy” in Stelios Stavridis, Understanding and Evaluating the European Union: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches. Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press.

Karagiannis, E (2007). “Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia” in Vassilis Fouskas, Politics of Conflict: A Survey. New York: Routledge

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

 

Karagiannis, E. (2010) Political Islam in the Former Soviet Union: Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan Compared, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict (forthcoming)

Karagiannis, E. (2009) Hezbollah as a Social Movement Organization: A Framing Approach, Mediterranean Politics, 14 (3), 365-383

Karagiannis, E. (2007) The Rise of Political Islam in Kazakhstan: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 13 (2), 297-322

Karagiannis, E. (2006). The Challenge of Radical Islam in Tajikistan: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami. Nationalities Papers, 34 (1), 1-20 Karagiannis, E. & McCauley, C. (2006). Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: Evaluating the Threat Posed by a Radical Islamic Group that Remains Nonviolent. Terrorism and Political Violence, 18 (1), 315-334

Karagiannis, E. (2006). Political Islam in Uzbekistan: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami. Europe-Asia Studies, 58 (2), 261-280

Karagiannis, E. (2005) Political Islam and Social Movement Theory: The Case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Kyrgyzstan. State, Religion and Society, 35 (2), 137-149

Karagiannis, E. (2004) The Caspian Legal Dispute: The Kazakhstani Position. Central Asian Journal of Economics, Management and Strategic Research, 4 (1), 103-116

Karagiannis, E. (2004). The Turkish-Georgian Partnership and the Pipeline Factor. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 6 (1), 15-28

 

Karagiannis, E. (2003). The U.S.-Iranian Relationship after September 11, 2001 and the Transportation of Caspian Energy. Central Asian Survey, 22 (2/3), 151-162.

Karagiannis, E. (2003). The Persian Gulf and the Big 4 European Powers, Agora Without Frontiers, 8 (4), 285-306

OTHER ARTICLES

 

Karagiannis, E. (2010). Political Islam in Central Asia: The Role of Hizb ut- Tahrir, CTC Sentinel, vol. 3, no. 2, 19-22

 

Karagiannis, E. (2008). The Role of the Black Sea as a Pillar for Europe’s Energy Security, International and European Policy, no. 10, 113-120

Karagiannis, E. (2007). German Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf, Defensor Pacis, vol. 21, 46-57

Karagiannis, E. (2003). Europe’s Diplomatic and Energy Policies in the Persian Gulf, International Energy Law and Taxation Review no. 7, 220-224

Karagiannis, E. (2001). Iran as a Transportation Corridor for Azerbaijan’s Oil to the International Market. International Energy Law and Taxation Review no. 7, 148-151

Karagiannis, E. (1999). Will Pipeline Development bring about another Armenian- Azerbaijani War around Nagorno-Karabakh? NewsBase FSU Oil and Gas Monitor, no. 38, 2-3

Karagiannis, E. (1999). The Turkish-Georgian Relationship and the Transportation of Azerbaijani Oil, Caspian Crossroads, no.3, March

PRESENTATIONS

 

 

“The U.S.-Russian Competition in the Caucasus” Paper Presented to a Conference on Russia and the World, Institute of Business and Politics, Moscow, Russia, April 16, 2010

 

“The Russian-Georgian Conflict in South Ossetia Through the Lens of Offensive Realism”, Paper Presented to the Tenth Annual Conference of Central Eurasian Studies Society, University of Toronto, Canada, October 10, 2009

“Hezbollah as a Social Movement”, Paper presented to a Conference on Interdisciplinary Analyses of Aggression & Terrorism, Society for Terrorism Research, Madrid, Spain, September 29, 2007

“Asian Muslims in Greece and the Prospects of Radicalization”, Paper presented to a Conference on The Social Stress of Immigrants/Members of Minority Groups as a Factor in Terrorist Behaviour in Tel-Hai, Israel, April 27-29, 2007.

“Iran - 1979”, Paper presented to the 10th American Studies Seminar, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 24, 2007.

“Europe and the Middle East: The Energy Dimension”, Paper presented to a conference on the Prospects for Stability and Prosperity in the Middle East, Karamanlis Institute of Democray, Athens, Greece, March 16, 2007.

“Solving the Enigma of a Radical Non-Violent Group: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami”, Paper presented to a Conference on The Psychology of Oppression, International Society of Political Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, July 12-16, 2006. “The GUAM Organisation and the Geopolitics of Energy in the Black Sea”, Paper presented to the 15th International Summer Seminar on The Energy Issue: Cooperation and Conflict, Institute of International Relations, Island of Hydra, Greece, June 26-30, 2006

“Is Democracy Possible in the Middle East?”, Paper presented to the 9th American Studies Seminar, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 15, 2006 “Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami in Kazakhstan”, Paper presented to Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Boston University, Boston, October 1, 2005

“Hizb ut-Tahrir in Central Asia”, Paper presented to CARC Central Asian workshop on Islam and politics in Central Asia, Almaty, October 27, 2004

“The desire for self-determination in the Balkans is too strong to be regulated”, Paper presented to the 8th Annual Balkan Debate Forum, Budva, Montenegro, April 30-May 5, 2003

“Turkey’s New Foreign Policy towards the Central Asia and the Lessons of the Past.” Paper presented to a conference on the USA, the EU and the International Environment after September 11, Intercollege, Nicosia, December 3, 2001.

“South Asia: the Geopolitics of Energy Transportation and Sanctions Policy”, Paper presented to a conference on International Sanctions and Implications for the Oil, Gas and Mining Industries, held in London, October 2-3, 2001.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

 

Occasional Reviewer for Terrorism and Political Violence, Religion, State and Society, Asian Security OSCE Short Term Observer– Parliamentary Elections, Republic of Armenia, May 12-16, 2007, Parliamentary Elections, Republic of Georgia, January 1-5, 2008

 

Member of the Editorial Boards of Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict and Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (Taylor and Francis journal)

 

AWARDS & GRANTS

 

 

Mellon Foundation Research Grant 2003-2005

The Schilizzi Foundation Scholarship 1995

University of Hull Pre-doctoral Fellowship 1999

 

 

PROFESSIONAL

AFFILIATIONS

 

 

American Political Science Association, Member

International Society of Political Psychology, Member

International Studies Association, Member

Central Eurasian Studies Society, Member

 

 

 

 

INTERVIEWS & CITATIONS

“Electoral Politics in Azerbaijan Could Complicate Pipeline Loans”, Eurasianet, September 15, 2003 available at http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/business/articles/eav091603.shtml

 

Stephen Schwartz, “Hizb ut-Tahrir in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan”, Jamestown Foundation

Terrorism Monitor, August 11, 2004 available at

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=365

 

“Akademiku grek beson se Kosova do te mbetet konflikt I ngrire edhe per disa vjet”, KOHA

Ditore (Kosovo), 19 November 2008, p. 8

 

“Ganduri elene la inceput de secol”, Carte de Visita (Moldova), 28 August 2008, p. 19

 

“A Gesture, even a symbolic one, from Yerevan is probably necessary before treaty ratification”, Azerbaijan Press Agency, available at http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=111213

 

“Georgian hostile strategy towards Moscow may alienate Abkhazia and South Ossetia”, Pravda (English edition), 8 August 2007 available at http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/08-08-2007/95821-georgian_strategy-0/

 

“Georgia seeks ‘limited war’ to draw international attention”, Pravda (English edition) 11 August 2008 available at http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/11-08-2008/106052-georgia-0/

 

“The normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations could take many years”, Azerbaijan Press Agency, 25 May 2010 available at http://www.news.az/articles/16159

 

“Very difficult for Iran to be involved in Karabakh settlement”, Azerbaijan Press Agency, 19 March 2010, available at http://www.news.az/articles/11848

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