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Theodore A. Couloumbis is professor of international relations at the University of Athens. He is also Vice-President at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), after being Member of the Board of Directors and Director-General for several years. In 1995-96 he was a senior fellow with the United States Institute of Peace and in 2006-2007 a policy scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His work focuses on conflict resolution in the post-Cold War international setting and on aspects of Greek foreign policy. He is co-author (with James H. Wolfe) of a well-known text book, International Relations: Power and Justice, Prentice Hall, 4th ed. 1990, author of US, Greece and Turkey: The Troubled Triangle (Praeger,1983) and co-editor of the new Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Frank Cass and ELIAMEP). His more recent publications include the Greek Junta Phenomenon (Pella, 2004) and a co-edited volume, Greece in the 20th Century (Frank Cass, 2005). He served as president of Eliamep in Athens (l993-95), president of the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki (1988-90) and president of the Hellenic Society for International Law an International Relations (1985-87). In the years 1965-83, Couloumbis was professor of international relations at the American University’s School of International Service in Washington DC where he received several awards for outstanding teaching. From 1983 to 1989 he was professor of international relations at the School of Law of the University of Thessaloniki, moving to the University of Athens early in 1990. In addition to his scholarly output, he is a regular columnist and frequent contributor to Kathimerini. He holds B.A./ (1956) and M.A./ (1958) degrees in political science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D./ (1963) in international relations from the American University.

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A World Without Nuclear Weapons?

May 4, 2010 | | Read the article »

The recent signing of the new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty launches a month of intense activity focused on reducing the threats of nuclear conflict and nuclear terrorism and tightening control over nuclear materiel and technologies.
Regardless of outcomes, this reflects the new dynamics driving the original nuclear club of the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – A World Without Nuclear Weapons?

April 20, 2010 | | Read the article »

The recent signing of the new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty launches a month of intense activity focused on reducing the threats of nuclear conflict and nuclear terrorism and tightening control over nuclear materiel and technologies.
Regardless of outcomes, this reflects the new dynamics driving the original nuclear club of the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – Iran: Radical, But Not Crazy

March 25, 2010 | | Read the article »

Last month Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned that Iran was turning into a “military dictatorship,” as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was steadily assuming more and more power within the country. The image of Iran as a threatening and militarized nation, ruled by an irrational regime and intent on destroying Israel, would [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – Greece at a Crossroads

February 26, 2010 | | Read the article »

For small European countries such as Greece, being headline news is not a blessing. It usually means that they have suffered a major natural disaster or are wrestling with political, economic or social turmoil. Greece today is front and center in a storm of bad news.
Greece’s problem is mainly economic and the statistics are stark: [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – The Complex Conundrum of Iran

February 3, 2010 | | Read the article »

The twin pillars of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy framework are a willingness to negotiate with adversaries and to collaborate with other nations to bring about stability and peaceful change.
This approach is idealistic and realistic at the same time. It assumes that engagement is a necessary first step, and negotiation is always better than autistic [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – The Complex Conundrum of Iran

February 3, 2010 | One Comment | Read the article »

The twin pillars of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy framework are a willingness to negotiate with adversaries and to collaborate with other nations to bring about stability and peaceful change.
This approach is idealistic and realistic at the same time. It assumes that engagement is a necessary first step, and negotiation is always better than autistic [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – ‘Dithering’ May Be Good Policy

November 6, 2009 | | Read the article »

We are used to seeing domestic policy debates played out as part of the normal push-and-shove of the legislative process. A good example is the seemingly endless and very public health care policy debate. But we are less used to seeing Executive Branch foreign-policy reviews played out practically in the open, as with the ongoing [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – Obama’s Foreign Policy Conundrum

October 9, 2009 | | Read the article »

The Obama ‘change’ in American foreign policy emphasizes realism, engagement and negotiation; multilateralism, “smart power,” and collective, concerted attacks on global issues. While the new approach is apparent in the President’s exceptional rhetoric, it may embrace expectations for others that will prove unrealistic.  Nowhere is it being tested more severely than in the Middle East [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – Ongoing Nuclear Dilemmas

July 30, 2009 | | Read the article »

President Obama in speech after speech during his recent overseas visits has been hammering on the dual themes of arresting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and also advocating, as an eventual but nonetheless desirable objective, the reduction, deactivation – and eventually total elimination –  of  nuclear arsenals around the planet.
Nuclear weapons were employed [...]

Theodore Couloumbis – Concerted Action on Global Problems

July 14, 2009 | | Read the article »

In a recent interview with Der Spiegel, the German weekly asked Henry Kissinger whether he thought the world would soon enter an era without major wars or conflicts. His response echoed the theme of his Harvard doctoral dissertation, in which he wrote upon the Congress of Vienna and the genesis of the 19th Century European [...]