Dr. Antonis Hadjikyriacou, IMS/FO.R.T.H. and Boğaziçi University gave a guest lecture on “Ottoman rule in the Balkans: from decline to modernisation theory and from centralisation to negotiation”

"Greek media representations of Albania and Kosovo: Findings of recent research projects" 

Presentation of findings: Dr. Panagiotis Paschalidis, Junior research fellow, ELIAMEP

Introduction and Comments: Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, Assistant professor, University of Macedonia & Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy…

Dr Axel Sotiris Wallden, formerly at DG ENLARGEMENT, European Commission gave a guest lecture on “The European Union's enlargement policy. The 2016 Commission 'Enlargement Package'”.

Dr Axel Sotiris Wallden, formerly at DG ENLARGEMENT, European Commission, gave a guest lecture on “Balkan communist regimes 1945-1990”.

Professor Emeritus P.C. Ioakimidis gave a guest lecture on “The Nature of the European Union Political System”.  

SEE coordinator Associate Professor Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos gave an interview of on “POPULISM, CLIENTELISM AND CORRUPTION OFTEN WORK IN SEQUENCE”. You can download it from SciencePo website
http://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/%E2%80%9Cpopulism-clientelism-and-corruption-often-work-sequence%E2%80%9D/2508

Professor Emeritus  P.C. Ioakimidis gave a guest lecture on “The Lisbon Treaty and After”

SEE coordinator Associate Professor Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos conducted a seminar on "The Quality of Democracy & Populism in Western Balkans in the Comparative Perspective of Contemporary European Politics", SciencesPo, Paris. http://www.sciencespo.fr/liepp/fr/content/quality-democracy-populism-western-balkans

On Thursday 29 September 2016 the SEE team was happy to welcome the postgraduate students of the academic year 2016-2017. Looking forward to a fruitful and productive year.

Susannah Verney was Co-convenor (with Georgios Karyotis, University of Glasgow) of a Section entitled Reconfiguring Southern Europe (10 panels, 48 papers) at the General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research, Charles University, Prague, https://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=95