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George Voskopoulos is an Assistant Professor at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of International and European Economic and Political Studies. He has been an Associate Research Fellow at the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies and has held teaching and research positions in the area of international politics and European studies in Bulgaria, Luxembourg and Greece. He has authored and co-authored articles and monographs published in journals in Greece, the US, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy and Bulgaria and presented conference papers at numerous international fora. His latest publications include Defence and Strategic Planning Parameters, Kiromanos, Greece, 2006, Greek Foreign Policy, from the 20th to the 21st Century, Papazisis, Athens, 2005, American Politics and Government in Focus (co-edited with James Mitchell), Vol. 2, Whittier Publishers, New York, 2004, “Post-Cold War Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU”, Evropa, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw, TOM 4, N.2 (11), 2004, “Political Socialization as a Means of Consolidating Pluralism and Democracy in South East Europe”, in Slobodan G. Markovich/Eric Beckett Weaver/Vukasin Pavlovic (eds.), Challenges in the New Democracies in the Balkans, Anglo-Yugoslav Society and University of Westminster-UK, Belgrade 2004, “US, Terrorism, International Security and Leadership: Toward a US-EU-Russia Security Partnership”, Demokratizatsiya, Washington D.C., Vol. 11, No.2, Spring 2003, “Western Europe and the Balkans: A Geo-Cultural Approach of International Relations”, Perspectives, Institute of International Relations, Prague, n. 17, Winter 2001/2002. G Voskopoulos holds a PhD from Exeter University (UK), Centre for European Studies. His doctoral thesis titled “Greece, Common Foreign and Security Policy and the European Union: Interaction Within and Between a Zone of Peace and a Zone of Turmoil as an Explanatory Factor” focused on the institutional, structural and ideological problems for the application of a common foreign and security policy during the early decommunisation process in south-eastern Europe. He holds an MA in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University (UK), a BA from Brock University, Canada, and a BA from Ionian University, Greece.