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Three allies, two envoys, one conclusion
OPINION

Turkey and Hungary are both difficult allies of the United States. Both held up NATO’s enlargement just when Washington needed the greatest possible coalition against Russia and maximum support for Ukraine.


The Greek debt crisis and President Obama’s foreign policy
PODCASTS

Katerina Sokou, who holds the research fellowship at ELIAMEP on “Greek-American Relations” and who covered the Greek crisis from Washington, DC as a correspondent for Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to break down how the Greek debt crisis provides a case study into the Obama foreign policy doctrine – the focus of her recent in-depth report […]

PM heading to US in April
NEWS

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to visit the US most likely on April 4 for talks with American President Joe Biden.


Are we seeing a new momentum in US-Turkey ties?
PODCASTS

Expert Sinan Ciddi joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the recent visits to the US by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, and look at whether these signal what some are calling a new momentum in US-Turkey ties in the wake of the Sweden NATO saga.

Greece will not send troops to Ukraine, official confirms
NEWS

The two Greek-US memorandums of cooperation concerning the deployment and placement of Greek defense personnel in the US Army were approved on Monday by a majority in the Parliament Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee.


Athenian reflections of a Harvard dean
SOCIETY

It was Sarah Whiting’s last morning in Athens. For the final day of this dense, week-long tour of Greece, the weather improved and the winter sun shone over Syntagma Square. From her hotel balcony she enjoyed a typical sunny Athenian panorama, with the silhouette of the Parthenon in the background. Until […]

Obama’s foreign policy and the Greek debt crisis
SOCIETY

President Barack Obama’s critical role in helping Greece stay in the eurozone follows in the post-WWII tradition of American engagement in the European project for geopolitical reasons, even though it was initially driven by financial concerns, argues Katerina Sokou, ELIAMEP and Atlantic Council non-resident research fellow in a research paper just published.

Democrats Abroad Greece opens voting center Sunday
SOCIETY

Democrats Abroad Greece will be running a voting center this Sunday to help Americans living in Athens cast their votes in the Global Presidential Primary, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at The Athens Center, 48 Archimidous St.



It’s up to US voters now
OPINION

Citizens are democracy’s first and last line of defense. Institutions are shaped to anticipate problems and prevent deadlock, to regulate the state’s functions, to protect the weak and check the powerful.