Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική

Book Presentation, Greece & Bulgaria,from foes, allies and partners (collective volume)
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΙΝΣΤΙΤΟΥΤΟ ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΛΕΤΩΝ
Η παρουσίαση του συλλογικού έργου του ΕΛΙΣΜΕ έγινε τον Οκτώβριο 2021
από τον
Πρέσβη ε.τ. Μιχαήλ Χριστίδη και τον
Γιώργο Βοσκόπουλο, αναπλ. καθηγητή Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών, π. πρόεδρο τμήματος ΔΕΣ

George Voskopoulos – Academia Memo
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/

Criminal US Intelligence Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia(12/2023)
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia & PM K.Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually,it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International & European Studies course load & turned all obligatory courses in 2nd,3rd,4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I.Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean,f.Rector & f.Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki,Greece.
DAP-UoM (New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education)had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds(at least)have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books & simply copy info & answers during the exams(!)without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms & disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university. The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me & “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated & the way they target those who refuse to be their tools

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Critical questions need answers
1. Is impunity a “local”(institutional failure),national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret & I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International & European Studies & the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt?This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this odd visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP & a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police?Why didn’t the only witness to the incident testify? The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens & the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. On speaking out about corruption & clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick & should seek help).To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE . I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis & USEmbassy Athens? How did he use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network)to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency & those exposing clientelist networks?His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization)is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι, αφού παραθέσει μια σύντομη ιστορική αναδρομή επί του θέματος, η οποία θα το θέσει στο σωστό ιστορικό του πλαίσιο, να εξετάσει την σύγχρονη εκδοχή του ζητήματος όπως αυτή εξελίχθηκε από τη διάλυση της Γιουγκοσλαβίας και εντεύθεν. Το υπό εξέταση χρονικό διάστημα χωρίζεται σε τρεις περιόδους με βάση τρία κομβικά σημεία, την Ενδιάμεση Συμφωνία του 1995, τη Σύνοδος Κορυφής του ΝΑΤΟ στο Βουκουρέστι το 2008 και την πρόσφατη Συμφωνία των Πρεσπών το 2018.

Απόσπασμα από το
Γ. Βοσκόπουλος
Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική, από τον 20ο στον 21ο Αιώνα, Παπαζήσης, Αθήνα, 2005

Excerpt from George Voskopoulos, Greek Foreign Policy, from the 20th to the 21st Century, Papazisis publishers, Athens

2024 Memo on Academic Freedom & Intelligence Networks in www.uom.gr
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Από το βιβλίο
Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος, Ελληνική εξωτερική πολιτική, από τον 20ό στον 21ο αιώνα
Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, 2005
370 σελ.
ISBN 960-02-1945-1, ISBN-13 978-960-02-1945-6

URGENT MEMO: On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED.

2024 Memo on Academic Freedom & Intelligence Networks in www.uom.gr
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

The reflection of the political and economical revolutions which took place in Europe in the 18
th
century, to the Greek society living under the Ottoman rule wasrealized through the development of channels of commerce at the regions of the Empire (such as the Aegean shores of Anatolia, Balkans, Moldavia) where mainlythe Greek population lived. Young Greeks by going for education to Europe and merchants by going to Europe adopted the ideas of the Enlightenment and theideology of nationalism. Thus they made a contribution to the transfer of these ideasand ideology to the Greek society. While the developments of Europe were adopted with some delay, the movement that began with the Greek Enlightenment and withthe available international circumstances, the Greek upheaval which started in 1821at the Peloponnese peninsula resulted with the creation of an independent monarchical Greek state under the control of the Great Powers of the period. In this way, under the project of creating a nation state and a national identity,in 1833 the Greek Orthodox Church was established. Likewise, in 1837 theUniversity of Athens was founded for the education of the necessary personnel inorder to meet the administrative needs of the state and to convey the Westerncivilization to the East. Also by Hellenizing History, peace with the Byzantine past was made. On the other hand, trough securing historical continuity of Hellenism, Megali Idea gained formality. In plain terms the vision of creating a Great Greece,became a basis of existence of the Greek nation. But despite the fact that Megali Idea was detached formally from the Greek foreign policy with the end of theTurkish War of Independence (1922), it has remained always in the minds as a wishto be realized in order to keep the Greek nation together."

*Κείμενο του 2004 διαθέσιμο στο researchgate
Η δημοσιοποίηση του πέμπτου και τελικού σχεδίου Ανάν φέρνει αναμφίβολα την ελληνική και ελληνοκυπριακή πλευρά σε δύσκολη θέση και μπροστά σε μία κρίσιμη και ιστορική απόφαση. Οι αποφάσεις που θα ληφθούν θα σημαδέψουν τη στρατηγική ισορροπία στο πλαίσιο σχέσεων των Ελλάδας-Τουρκίας-ΕΕ-ΗΠΑ-Κύπρου. Επιπλέον η ελληνική στάση στο Κυπριακό καλείται να τοποθετηθεί και αναλυθεί στα πλαίσια του ευρύτερου συνόλου των ελληνο-τουρκικών σχέσεων.

See also
Greece, Turkey and the Cyprus Issue: Memorandum of Conversation; Washington 24/3/1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwkst7nYkAw

US archives on Turkish Invasion of Cyprus,27-8-1974: On negotiations, island partition, percentages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJHK-kra6Q

Ο τόμος αυτός περιέχει κείμενα ενός μεγάλου αριθμού έγκριτων μελετητών πάνω σε όψεις της εμπειρίας από τα τριάντα τελευταία χρόνια της ελληνικής εξωτερικής πολιτικής. Βάση τους αποτελούν οι εισηγήσεις που είχαν παρουσιαστεί σε Συνέδριο του Ινστιτούτου Διεθνών Σχέσεων του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου, το Μάιο του 2004, με θέμα «Τριάντα Χρόνια Ελληνικής Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής: 1974-2004». Τα μεγάλα θέματα που απασχόλησαν την ελληνική εξωτερική πολιτική αυτά τα κρίσιμα χρόνια, τα μέσα άσκησης εξωτερικής πολιτικής, ο ρόλος του εσωτερικού περιβάλλοντος, οι σύγχρονες προκλήσεις του διεθνούς συστήματος είναι μερικά από τα ζητήματα που προσεγγίζονται στο συλλογικό αυτό τόμο. [...] Η περίοδος αυτή σφραγίστηκε από μεγάλες ανακατατάξεις τόσο στο εσωτερικό της χώρας, όσο και σε περιφερειακό και διεθνές επίπεδο. Οι προτεραιότητες, τα διλήμματα και οι φορείς άσκησης της εξωτερικής πολιτικής παρακολούθησαν και προσαρμόστηκαν σε αυτές τις μεγάλες αλλαγές. [...] (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)
Περιεχόμενα
Εισαγωγικό Σημείωμα: Κωνσταντίνος Αρβανιτόπουλος - Μαριλένα Κοππά
Πρόλογος: Δημήτρης Κώνστας
ΠΡΩΤΟ ΜΕΡΟΣ
ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΟΙ ΑΞΟΝΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ
Μουσούρης Σωτήρης, Το Κυπριακό στον ΟΗΕ
Κοντονής Χαράλαμπος, Η Διαβαλκανική Συνεργασία 1974-2004: Τριάντα Χρόνια Ελληνικής Βαλκανικής Περιφερειακής Πολιτικής
Κοππά Μαριλένα, Ελληνική Βαλκανική Πολιτική: Τριάντα Χρόνια Μετά
Βερέμης Θάνος, Προσανατολισμοί της Τουρκίας
Κουλουμπής Θεόδωρος, Δυο σκέψεις για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες
Καιρίδης Δημήτρης, Η Ελλάδα και η Ένταση στις Ευρωατλαντικές Σχέσεις
Ρούσσος Σωτήρης, Η Ελληνική Πολιτική στη Μέση Ανατολή: Μεταξύ "Επιχειρησιακής Νοοτροπίας", "Εσωτερικής Πολιτικής" και Νέων Προκλήσεων
Μπότσιου Κωνσταντίνα Ε., Αναζητώντας το Χαμένο Χρόνο: Η Ευρωπαϊκή Τροχιά της Μεταπολίτευσης
Τσούκαλης Λουκάς, Ο Εξευρωπαϊσμός και τα όριά του
Διαμαντοπούλου Άννα, Γενικοί Προσανατολισμοί
ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟ ΜΕΡΟΣ
ΤΑ ΜΕΣΑ ΑΣΚΗΣΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ
Ζέπος Κώστας, Διμερής και Πολυμερής Διπλωματία
Χειλά Ειρήνη, Στόχοι, Αντιλήψεις και Προτεραιότητες της Ελληνικής Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής: Η Περίπτωση της Ελλάδας στα Ηνωμένα Έθνη
Ροζάκης Χρήστος Α., Το Διεθνές Δίκαιο και η Λειτουργία του στις Ελληνοτουρκικές Σχέσεις (1974-2004)
Ήφαιστος Παναγιώτης, Ισχύς και Δίκαιο ατή Διεθνή Πολιτική: Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική 1974-2004
Πλατιάς Αθανάσιος Γ., Η Ελληνική Αμυντική Πολιτική μετά το 1974
Γιαννίτσης Τάσος, Οικονομία και Εξωτερική Πολιτική
Κόντης Αντώνης, Η Διασπορά: Μέσο Άσκησης Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής
Σκλιάς Παντελής, Μη Κυβερνητικές Οργανώσεις και Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική: η Νέα Διάσταση στη Διεθνή Πραγματικότητα
ΤΡΙΤΟ ΜΕΡΟΣ
ΤΟ ΕΣΩΤΕΡΙΚΟ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ
Αρβανιτόπουλος Κωνσταντίνος, Ο Ρόλος των Ηγετών στη Διαμόρφωση της Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής
Τσάκωνας Παναγιώτης Ι.,Η Συνεισφορά της Διεθνολογικής Κοινότητας στη Διαμόρφωση της Ελλψικής Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής
Καραμπαρμπούνης Χάρης Α., Η Συμβολή της Βουλής των Ελλήνων στη Διαμόρφωση της Ελληνικής Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής
Στοφορόπουλος Θέμος Χ., Η Διπλωματική Υπηρεσία της Ελλάδας και η Διαμόρφωση της Ελληνικής Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής από τη Μεταπολίτευση του Ιουλίου 1974 μέχρι τις Εκλογές του Οκτωβρίου 1981
Μακρυδημήτρης Αντώνης, Εξωτερική Πολιτική: Θεσμοί και Πρόσωπα
Πασσάς Αργύρης Γ., Το Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών στο Μεταβαλλόμενο Ενωσιακό Θεσμικό και Πολιτικό Σύστημα
Τσουκαλάς Κωνσταντίνος, Ιδεολογικά Ρεύματα και Εξωτερική Πολιτική
Μακρής Σπύρος, Χειρισμός Κρίσεων και Εθνική Στρατηγική: Το Ιδεολογικό Προφίλ του Ελληνικού Πολιτικού Συστήματος στη Μεταψυχροπολεμική Εποχή. Μοντέλα Ανάλυσης Χειρισμού Κρίσεων και Κρίσεις Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής
ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟ ΜΕΡΟΣ
ΟΙ ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ
Υφαντής Κώστας, Αναζητώντας Επιλογές: Στρατηγικές Εξισορρόπησης και Συστημική Πολικότητα
Τσακαλογιάννης Πάνος, Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική και Συστημική Αλλαγή
Καζάκος Πάνος, Η Ευρωπαϊκή Πρόκληση: Αλληλεξάρτηση, Συσχετισμοί Δύναμης και Εθνική Ταυτότητα στην Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική 1974-2004
Παπασωτηρίου Χαράλαμπος, Ελλάδα και Παγκοσμιοποίηση
Χατζηκωνσταντίνου Κωνσταντίνος, Ο Προληπτικός Πόλεμος στη Νέα Αμερικανική Στρατηγική Ασφαλείας
Ντόκος Θάνος, Η Μετά την 11η Σεπτεμβρίου Εποχή: Προκλήσεις για την Ελληνική Εθνική Ασφάλεια
Επίμετρο: Βύρων Θεοδωρόπουλος

Abstract: A state system is defined as “the totality of relations which exist between the autonomous units in a particular arena” (Cantori and Spiegel, The international politics of regions, a comparative approach. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972: 3). In its turn, a subordinate system is defined as a state system that “consists of one state, or of two or more proximate and interacting states which have some common ethnic, linguistic, cultural, social, and historical bonds, and whose sense of identity is sometimes increased by the actions and attitudes of states external to the system” (Cantori and Spiegel, The international politics of regions, a comparative approach. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972: 6). These state interactions define the security parameters of a particular security environment and turn it into a zone of peace or a zone of turmoil (e.g. Singer and Widalvski, The real world order, zones of peace & zones of turmoil. New Jersey: Chatham House Publishers, 1993: 4). A suggested subordinate system model builds it on three axes of state participants.

*Απόσπασμα από το νέο μου βιβλίο για την ελληνική εξωτερική πολιτική. Το παρόν είναι draft, χωρίς διορθώσεις, παρεμβάσεις, βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές.

"Η τουρκική πολιτική στο Αιγαίο αποτελεί ένδειξη «απογοήτευσης» (frustration) από ένα εδαφικό καθεστώς το οποίο δεν ανταποκρίνεται στις προσδοκίες της τουρκικής πολιτικής και στρατιωτικής ελίτ. Όπως επισημαίνεται , η απογοήτευση προκαλεί «επιθετικότητα» (aggression). Η αυξημένη επιθετικότητα της τουρκικής πλευράς μπορεί να «μετρηθεί» μέσα από τον μαθηματικό τύπο 
RD = VE – VC, όπου RD (relative deprivation) το έλλειμμα προσδοκιών μεταξύ VE (value expectations), οι προσδοκίες ενός δρώντος, και VC (value capabilities) η ικανότητα υλοποίησης των στόχων ενός δρώντος. Αυτό που ο παραπάνω όρος καταδεικνύει είναι ότι όσο αυξάνεται ο δείκτης RD  τόσο μεγαλύτερη είναι η πιθανότητα να προβεί ένας παίκτης σε χρήση ισχύος προκειμένου να πραγματοποιήσει τις προσδοκίες του"

Το Κυπριακό Ζήτημα απέκτησε νέα επικαιρότητα μετά το 2014. Η εκλογή των Νίκου Αναστασιάδη και Μουσταφά Ακιντζή και η επανέναρξη των συνομιλιών οδήγησαν σε αισιοδοξία που δεν είχε εκδηλωθεί από την εποχή των δημοψηφισμάτων για το Σχέδιο Αννάν το 2004. Η προσθήκη του κεφαλαίου «ενέργεια» περιέπλεξε τις συνομιλίες, ενώ ο ρόλος των εγγυητριών δυνάμεων παρέμενε κρίσιμος. Οι συνομιλίες κορυφώθηκαν στην διάσκεψη του Ιουλίου 2017 που έλαβε χώρα στο ελβετικό θέρετρο Κράν Μοντανά. Παρά την τελική αποτυχία η συζήτηση για πρώτη φορά της πτυχής της ασφαλείας και των εγγυήσεων με την συμμετοχή των τριών εγγυητριών δυνάμεων αλλά και οι συγκλίσεις στα υπόλοιπα κεφάλαια των διαπραγματεύσεων, εδαφικό περιουσιακό, διακυβέρνηση, οικονομία και σχέσεις με Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ήταν άνευ προηγουμένου. Ο ρόλος της Ελλάδος ως εγγυήτριας χώρας παραμένει κρίσιμος, αν και πλέον η επιρροή της ελληνικής κυβερνήσεως στην κυπριακή έχει μειωθεί δραστικά. Οι συγκλίσεις των μερών στο Κραν Μοντανά αλλά και η θετική απήχηση των ελληνικών προτάσεων για το κεφάλαιο «ασφάλεια» υπογραμμίζουν ότι οι συνθήκες για την λύση του Κυπριακού επί τη βάσει μιας διζωνικής δικοινοτικής ομοσπονδίας παραμένουν ευνοϊκότερες από το παρελθόν.

Αμέσως μετά την ανακήρυξη της ανεξαρτησίας του μικρού και καχεκτικού Ελληνικού Βασιλείου, όλοι οι Έλληνες έκαναν όνειρα για μια εκ νέου πολεμική εξόρμηση κατά της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας που θα απελευθέρωνε τα εδάφη στα οποία ζούσαν οι υπόλοιποι υπόδουλοι συμπατριώτες τους. Το όνειρο αυτό αποτελεί την βασικότερη συνιστώσα της Ελληνικής πολιτικής σκέψης για πάνω από 80 χρόνια η οποία κατά καιρούς αποκρυσταλλώθηκε σε διάφορες

Το παρόν άρθρο πραγματεύεται τις επιπτώσεις της Συμφωνίας των Πρεσπών (The Prespes Agreement) μεταξύ Ελλάδας και ΠΓΔΜ σε ζητήματα ασφάλειας, ιδωμένες από την ελληνική πλευρά. Αφού εξεταστούν οι διάφορες προσεγγίσεις περί ασφάλειας ερευνάται τι προσφέρει σε επίπεδο ασφαλείας η Συμφωνία και υπό ποια έννοια μπορεί αυτή να εγείρει ζητήματα ασφαλείας.
This article discusses the impact of the Prespes Agreement between Greece and FYROM on security issues, from the Greek perspective. There is conducted a study on which are the implications of the Prespes Agreement on security issues, by examining the various security approaches.

National Security and the Lisbon Treaty: the issue of "Europeanization" of Greek Foreign Policy

2024 Memo on Academic Freedom & Intelligence Networks in www.uom.gr
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Contents and Excerpts

On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens and  f. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt! Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIA & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!

Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia, 2024 update
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Είναι λάθος της ελληνικής εξωτερικής πολιτικής να επικεντρώνεται μόνο στην υφαλοκρηπίδα, την ώρα που το διεθνές δίκαιο δίνει το δικαίωμα επέκτασης των κυριαρχικών μας δικαιωμάτων, τόνισαν στη ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ οι πανεπιστημιακοί Γ. Βοσκόπουλος και Βενιαμίν Καρακωστάνογλου, στο περιθώριο της διάλεξης που έδωσαν χθες σε φοιτητές του Πανεπιστημίου Μακεδονίας με θέμα την Αποκλειστική Οικονομική Ζώνη.

Το να μιλάμε για υφαλοκρηπίδα εκτός από παρωχημένο είναι και εις βάρος των συμφερόντων της Ελλάδας. Χάνουμε πολύτιμα δικαιώματα, τα οποία μας δίνει πληθωρικά το δίκαιο της θάλασσας” σημείωσε ο διεθνολόγος και λέκτορας Νομικής του ΑΠΘ, Βενιαμίν Καρακωστάνογλου. Όπως εξήγησε, με τη μακρά διαπραγμάτευση (1973-1982), την υιοθέτηση (1982) και θέση σε ισχύ (1994) της νέας, συνολικής και εξαιρετικά σημαντικής Σύμβασης των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για το Δίκαιο της Θάλασσας του 1982, θεσμοθετήθηκε η Αποκλειστική Οικονομική Ζώνη (ΑΟΖ), η οποία είναι μια νέα ζώνη θαλάσσιας δικαιοδοσίας και δικαιωμάτων των παράκτιων κρατών, με εύρος μέχρι 200 ναυτικά μίλια από τις ακτές. Περιλαμβάνει τα ύδατα, τον βυθό και το υπέδαφος της περιοχής της και αρχίζει μετά το τέλος της αιγιαλίτιδας ζώνης. Ουσιαστικά η ΑΟΖ περιέλαβε και συγχώνευσε στο καθεστώς της τον προϋφιστάμενο θεσμό της υφαλοκρηπίδας, που ταυτίστηκε πλέον με τον βυθό της ΑΟΖ (τουλάχιστον μέχρι το όριο των 200 μιλίων από την ακτή). ;Επομένως είναι λάθος να περιοριζόμαστε μόνο στην οριοθέτηση του βυθού και όχι και των υπερκείμενων υδάτων” ανέφερε ο κ. Καρακωστάνογλου
Στις πολιτικές προεκτάσεις του ζητήματος της ΑΟΖ σε σχέση με την άσκηση κυριαρχικών δικαιωμάτων της χώρας μας αναφέρθηκε στην ομιλία του ο επίκουρος καθηγητής Διεθνών Σχέσεων στο ΠΑΜΑΚ Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος.;Η Ελλάδα κρατά αμυντική στάση και εξωτερικεύει τον φόβο της. Ό,τι έχει πετύχει μέχρι σήμερα η Τουρκία το έχει πετύχει διά του φόβου μιας ενδεχόμενης χρήσης στρατιωτικής βίας

2008
Απειλές, ένταση απειλής, άμυνα, εθνική ασφάλεια
Εξωτερική πολιτική: "Η από κοινού λήψη αποφάσεων από μέρους πολλαπλών
παραγόντων"
Ασφάλεια: "Η απουσία απειλών, πραγματικών ή πιθανολογούμενων"
1.Τουρκία
2. ΠΓΔΜ

URGENT MEMO: On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED.

2024 Memo on Academic Freedom & Intelligence Networks in www.uom.gr
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ
Α. Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική, Συνέχεια και Μεταβολή
Μετά τη Μικρασιατική Καταστροφή του 1923 η Ελλάδα θεμελίωσε την εξωτερική της πολιτι¬κή και διπλωματική της δραστηριότητα στην προστασία της εδαφικής ακεραιότητας και την προάσπιση της ανεξαρτησίας της χώρας, με στόχο την παγίωση της ειρήνης και την «προαγωγή της συνεργασίας στο ιδιαίτερο γειτονικό περιβάλλον της»1. Ο στόχος αυτός αποτέλεσε τη γενική κατευθυντήρια γραμμή της ελληνικής εξωτερικής πολιτικής στις επόμενες δεκαετίες μέ¬χρι τις μέρες μας.
*Μικρό απόσπασμα από την εισαγωγή του βιβλίου Γ. Βοσκόπουλος, Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική, από τον 20ο στον 21ο Αιώνα, Παπαζήσης, Αθήνα, 2005
*Έχουν αφαιρεθεί οι παραπομπές

2013
Μετά το τέλος του Ψυχρού Πολέμου η ανάδειξη του Μακεδονικού σε παράγοντα αποσταθεροποίησης της νοτιο-ανατολικής Ευρώπης έφερε εκ νέου στην επιφάνεια τις εγγενείς αδυναμίες του Βαλκανικού υποσυστήματος ασφαλείας: ρεβιζιονισμός, Μεγάλη Ιδέα και αδυναμία δημιουργίας μιας κοινότητας κρατών που αντιμετωπίζουν τις προκλήσεις στο πεδίο της διεθνούς πολιτικής μέσα από win-win προσεγγίσεις. Σήμερα η διαμάχη Ελλάδας – ΠΓΔΜ επανέρχεται στο προσκήνιο με έμφαση από τους Ευρωπαίους εταίρους και τους συμμάχους στο ΝΑΤΟ. Αποτελεί ένα ζήτημα αιχμής για την ελληνική εξωτερική πολιτική και την εθνική ασφάλεια, την στρατηγική διεύρυνσης του ΝΑΤΟ στα Βαλκάνια και την διαδικασία διεύρυνσης της ΕΕ. Η εσωτερική διαμάχη στα Σκόπια δημιουργεί πιέσεις στο πολιτικό σύστημα και τη βιωσιμότητα της πολιτικής σύμπραξης της αλβανικής συνιστώσας. Οι περισσότερο διαλλακτικοί θεωρούν ότι οι εμμονές σε ιστορικούς άξονες προώθησης των συμφερόντων της χώρας και η αρχαιολατρία συνιστούν μια λανθασμένη επιλογή που δημιουργεί δικαιολογημένες αρνητικές αντιδράσεις στην Ελλάδα έναντι ενός επιθετικού αναθεωρητισμού [1]. Ο εθνικισμός οδήγησε τους γείτονές μας σε ακραίες εκφράσεις μιας αναθεωρημένης ιστοριογραφίας [2] που αποτέλεσαν σημαντική παράμετρο του προσδιορισμού της ελληνικής πολιτικής αλλά και της αναθεωρημένης βουλγαρικής πολιτικής έναντι της προοπτικής ένταξης της χώρας στην ΕΕ.

Criminal US Intelligence Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia(12/2023)
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia & PM K.Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually,it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International & European Studies course load & turned all obligatory courses in 2nd,3rd,4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I.Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean,f.Rector & f.Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki,Greece.
DAP-UoM (New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education)had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds(at least)have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books & simply copy info & answers during the exams(!)without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms & disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university. The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me & “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated & the way they target those who refuse to be their tools

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Critical questions need answers
1. Is impunity a “local”(institutional failure),national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret & I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International & European Studies & the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt?This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this odd visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP & a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police?Why didn’t the only witness to the incident testify? The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens & the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. On speaking out about corruption & clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick & should seek help).To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE . I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis & USEmbassy Athens? How did he use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network)to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency & those exposing clientelist networks?His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization)is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Ανα­φε­ρό­μα­στε δι­αρ­κώς στην Τουρ­κία αλ­λά πό­σα ξέ­ρου­με γι' αυτήν; Το ψύ­χραι­μο βι­βλίο του Ιω­άν­νη Ν. Γρη­γο­ρι­ά­δη ανα­λύει σε βά­θος όλες τις πο­λι­τι­κές, οικο­νο­μι­κές, κοι­νω­νι­κές θρη­σκευ­τι­κές δο­μές του με­γά­λου και άγνω­στου γεί­το­να εξ Ανα­το­λών.

Πά­σχος Μαν­δρα­βέ­λης, Δη­μο­σι­ο­γρά­φος

Για όλους τους Έλ­λη­νες η Τουρ­κία φαί­νε­ται να απο­τε­λεί πρό­βλη­μα, αλ­λά παραδόξως λι­γό­τε­ρο πρό­βλη­μα απ' ότι είναι στην πραγ­μα­τι­κό­τη­τα και για εμάς τους ίδι­ους, αλ­λά και για τους Τούρ­κους. Είναι ση­μα­ντι­κό να μην πλη­ρο­φο­ρού­με­θα γι' αυτήν την με­γά­λη γεί­το­να μό­νον από Έλ­λη­νες ή μό­νον από Τούρ­κους ή μό­νον από τρί­τους, αλ­λά κυ­ρί­ως από Έλ­λη­νες οι οποίοι γνω­ρί­ζουν την Τουρ­κία, δι­ό­τι ομι­λούν τη γλώσ­σα και έχουν ζή­σει ή ερ­γα­σθεί εκεί. Εδώ έγκει­ται λοι­πόν ένα με­γά­λο τμή­μα της προ­σφο­ράς των εξαι­ρε­τι­κών άρ­θρων του Ιω­άν­νη Ν. Γρη­γο­ρι­ά­δη: Oμι­λεί και γρά­φει τουρ­κι­κά, δι­δά­σκει σε τουρ­κι­κό πα­νε­πι­στή­μιο και γνω­ρί­ζει πο­λύ κα­λά την τουρ­κι­κή πο­λι­τι­κή και κοι­νω­νία. Με λί­γα λό­για είναι γνώ­στης από πρώ­το χέ­ρι των επι­δι­ώ­ξε­ων αλ­λά και των αγω­νι­ών του γει­το­νι­κού μας Σί­συ­φου. Ας προ­σέ­ξου­με λοι­πόν όσα μας με­τα­δί­δει.

Κώ­στας Ι. Καρ­ράς, Έλ­λην Συ­ντο­νι­στής, Ελ­λη­νο­τουρ­κι­κό Φό­ρουμ

2011
thinkfree.gr
Οι επιλογές της πολιτικής ηγεσίας της γείτονος πηγάζουν ιδεολογικά και στρατηγικά από εκφάνσεις του νέο-οθωμανισμού οι οποίες αποτελούν άξονα της νέας τουρκικής στρατηγικής και την αυτοπαγιδεύουν. Η Άγκυρα αναπτύσσει μία ρητορική επικίνδυνη για την περιφερειακή ασφάλεια.

On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens and  f. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt! Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIA & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!

Criminal US Intelligence Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia(12/2023)
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia & PM K.Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually,it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International & European Studies course load & turned all obligatory courses in 2nd,3rd,4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I.Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean,f.Rector & f.Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki,Greece.
DAP-UoM (New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education)had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds(at least)have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books & simply copy info & answers during the exams(!)without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms & disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university. The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me & “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated & the way they target those who refuse to be their tools

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Critical questions need answers
1. Is impunity a “local”(institutional failure),national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret & I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International & European Studies & the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt?This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this odd visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP & a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police?Why didn’t the only witness to the incident testify? The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens & the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. On speaking out about corruption & clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick & should seek help).To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE . I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis & USEmbassy Athens? How did he use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network)to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency & those exposing clientelist networks?His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization)is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

2011
Abstract: Greek foreign policy has been affected by two distinctive factors. The first relates to the EU and the institutionalisation process of exercising a Common Foreign and Security Policy. The second relates to systemic parameters defined by immature elements of the south-east Euro-pean subordinate system. Greek choices will be evaluated through the non-abiding dictates of the Treaties and their inability to de-nationalize its foreign policy. The analysis based on Neo-realist elements of a system-driven international behaviour will illustrate that systemic pa-rameters rather than EU policies define choices of the foreign policy agenda.

*Δημοσιεύτηκε στο slpress.gr 9/7/2020
Με άρθρο του το 2010 ο καθ. Soli Ozel είχε προαναγγείλει μια σειρά συστημικών αλλαγών στη Μεσόγειο (και όχι μόνο), εθνικών οραμάτων και αναδιανομής ρόλων που αφορούσαν την Τουρκία. Οι επισημάνσεις του παρέπεμπαν σε αλληλένδετες γεωστρατηγικές/γεωπολιτικές χωροταξίες.

URGENT MEMO: On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED.

2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES ON GREEK FOREIGN POLICY CASES
ABSTRACT
Greece, as a member of the Western front since the end of the Second World War, followed a foreign policy based on communist threat until 1974. After 1974 which is the year of Cyprus Peace Operation and Greece’s transition to democracy again, Turkey became the main threat in the perception of Greek foreign policy and was shaped accordingly. As of the same date in Greece the discipline of international relations began to develop and in the continuation, debates regarding dominant theories of the discipline among Greek scholars developed. The purpose of this study is to discuss the development of international relations theories in Greece and the implementation of these on foreign policy cases.
Key Words: Greece, International Relations, Turkey, Balkans, Foreign Policy.

Πρόσφατα το Κέντρο Στρατηγικής Έρευνας στην Τουρκία δημοσίευσε ένα άρθρο – ανάλυση του Τούρκου ΥΠΕΞ. Α. Νταβούτογλου. Σε αυτό ο Τούρκος Υπουργός αναλύει τους άξονες δράσης της Τουρκικής Υψηλής Στρατηγικής αλλά και την αντίληψη του όσον αφορά τη χωροταξία δράσης της Τουρκίας.

Ο κ. Νταβούτογλου προχωρά σε μία συστημική ανάλυση των μεταβολών στο διεθνές σύστημα και αναδεικνύει τις ευκαιρίες για την Άγκυρα στα Βαλκάνια και τις τουρκόφωνες περιοχές της πρώην Σοβιετικής Ένωσης. Ο άξονας ανάλυσης του εμπεριέχει μία γεω-πολιτική, γεω-οικονομική και γεω-πολιτισμική διάσταση μέσα από τις οποίες αναδεικνύεται το νέο-Οθωμανικό όραμα του.

Ειδικότερα στο γεω-πολιτισμικό πεδίο αναφέρεται στην «πολιτισμική αφύπνιση» (cultural awakening) των τουρκόφωνων πληθυσμών αλλά και στην ανάγκη και «ηθική» υποχρέωση της Τουρκίας να στηρίξει αυτούς τους λαούς. Η επιλογή αυτή συνδέεται κατά τον ίδιο με το γεγονός ότι η μοίρα τους ενδέχεται να επηρεάσει τον μελλοντικό προσανατολισμό της Τουρκίας.

https://www.thinkfree.gr/%cf%84%ce%bf-%ce%b3%ce%b5%cf%89%cf%83%cf%84%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%b3%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%8c-%ce%bc%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b9%cf%86%ce%ad%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf-%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85-%ce%b1-%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b2/

Μικρό απόσπασμα από υπο-ενότητα του νέου μου ακυκλοφόρητου βιβλίου για την ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΕΞΩΤΕΡΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ 2024

An ecxerpt from my new book on Greek Foreign Policy. Here some comments on the emerging world order and issues of polarity, alliance building et al

2024 update on Academic Freedom/ Free Speech / Meritocracy in www.uom.gr
2023 update
Academia Memo on academic freedom, meritocracy and criminal networks
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Μετά το τέλος του Α΄ παγκοσμίου πολέμου σημειώθηκε μια ζωηρή πολιτική κίνηση για την δημιουργία ευρύτερων υπερεθνικών οργανισμών που θα οδηγούσαν τους λαούς σε στενότερη συνεννόηση και συνεργασία, αλλά κυρίως θα απομάκρυναν την πιθανότητα νέων πολέμων, μέσω μιας διακρατικής διαιτησίας. Ένας τέτοιος οργανισμός υπήρξε η Κοινωνία των Εθνών (πρόδρομος του ΟΗΕ), υπό την σκέπη των νικητών του Α΄ παγκοσμίου πολέμου (ΗΠΑ, Αγγλίας, Γαλλίας). Στην Βαλκανική αναπτύχθηκε μια αντίστοιχη πρωτοβουλία στα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1930 για την δημιουργία μιας Βαλκανικής ομοσπονδίας όλων των Εθνών της Χερσονήσου συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Τουρκίας. Οι πρώτες επίσημες συζητήσεις έγιναν στις αρχές Οκτωβρίου 1929 στην Αθήνα και στους Δελφούς όπου συνήλθε το 27ο παγκόσμιο Συνέδριο της Ειρήνης.

2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES ON GREEK FOREIGN POLICY CASES ABSTRACT Greece, as a member of the Western front since the end of the Second World War, followed a foreign policy based on communist threat until 1974. After 1974 which is the year of Cyprus Peace Operation and Greece’s transition to democracy again, Turkey became the main threat in the perception of Greek foreign policy and was shaped accordingly. As of the same date in Greece the discipline of international relations began to develop and in the continuation, debates regarding dominant theories of the discipline among Greek scholars developed. The purpose of this study is to discuss the development of international relations theories in Greece and the implementation of these on foreign policy cases. Key Words: Greece, International Relations, Turkey, Balkans, Foreign Policy.

"...ένα επικίνδυνο πλαίσιο υψηλών προσδοκιών με άξονα αυτό που έχει προσδιοριστεί ως ένας τουρκικός «νέο-εθνικισμός» ή Sonderweg (special/ separate path).
Ο όρος Sonderweg  αναφέρεται σε μία θεωρία (αλλά και μία σχολή σκέψης) της γερμανικής ιστοριογραφίας και στις επιλογές της χώρας στο πεδίο της εξωτερικής πολιτικής με σημείο αναφοράς-εκκίνησης τον Α Π.Π. Παραπέμπει στην ιστορική διαφορετικότητα ενός λαού που οφείλει να ακολουθήσει έναν διακριτό, ξεχωριστό δρόμο απορρίπτοντας με αυτόν τον τρόπο τη συμβατική/φυσιολογική ("normal" development of history) πορεία της ιστορίας.

Ιστορικά καταγράφεται ιδεολογική συγγένεια (πέραν των στρατιωτικών δεσμών) ανάμεσα στις αντιλήψεις που κυριάρχησαν στην Οθωμανική και τη Γερμανική αυτοκρατορία. Όπως επισημαίνεται, «η εθνικιστική γερμανική εμμονή ξεκίνησε με την αντίσταση της μετα-πολεμικής Τουρκίας (Α. Π.Π) η οποία ερχόταν σε αντιδιαστολή με την συνθηκολόγηση της Δημοκρατίας της Βαϊμάρης. Η άρνηση του Κ. Ατατούρκ να αποδεχθεί τις διευθετήσεις που επέβαλλε η Συνθήκη των Σεβρών ενεργοποίησε τις στρατοκρατικές φαντασιώσεις των γερμανών εθνικιστών οι οποίοι αισθάνθηκαν ταπεινωμένοι από την πλήρη αποδοχή της Συνθήκης των Βερσαλλιών».

Το 1921 άρθρο στη ναζιστική εφημερίδα Völkischer Beobachter υπογράμμιζε: “Σήμερα οι Τούρκοι αποτελούν το πιο νέο έθνος. Το γερμανικό έθνος δεν θα έχει άλλη επιλογή μία μέρα από το να καταφύγει στις τουρκικές μεθόδους/πρακτικές». Η νίκη των Νεότουρκων το 1923 αποτέλεσε γεγονός με ιδιαίτερη σημειολογική σημασία για τους ταπεινωμένους Γερμανούς. Η εφημερίδα Heimatland επεσήμανε: «Η τύχη της Τουρκίας έχει εντυπωσιακές ομοιότητες με τη δική μας. Μέσα από το τουρκικό παράδειγμα μπορούμε να δούμε αυτά που οφείλαμε να είχαμε κάνει. Αν θέλουμε να απελευθερωθούμε τότε δεν έχουμε άλλη επιλογή από το να ακολουθήσουμε με τον ένα ή τον άλλο τρόπο το τουρκικό παράδειγμα. Αφοί οι Τούρκοι κατάφεραν να ακυρώσουν τη Συνθήκη των Σεβρών τότε γιατί δεν μπορεί να γίνει το ίδιο με τη Συνθήκη των Βερσαλλιών»;(2).

"Ονομαστικά και οργανωτικά η διεύρυνση της Ατλαντικής Συμμαχίας προέκυψε από τη συνδυαστική ανάλυση δύο παραμέτρων: τη στρατηγική θέση των υποψηφίων χωρών και τις ένοπλες δυνάμεις που διέθεταν. Όπως υπογραμμίζεται, «η στρατηγική θέση αναφέρεται στην επίδραση που θα έχει η συμμετοχή στο ΝΑΤΟ στις νατοϊκές αποστολές…ενώ η παράμετρος ένοπλες δυνάμεις αφορά την ανάγκη ενίσχυσης των υπαρχόντων δυνάμεων της Συμμαχίας»  (Szayna, 2002). Η στρατηγική αυτή υλοποιήθηκε σε συνδυασμό με το άνοιγμα προς τη Ρωσία, ονομαστικός στόχος του οποίου ήταν η μη απομόνωση της Μόσχας"

*This is STRICTLY A NO FOLLOW ACCOUNT

URGENT MEMO: On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens. Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIAS & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!

Criminal US Intelligence Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia(12/2023)
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia & PM K.Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually,it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International & European Studies course load & turned all obligatory courses in 2nd,3rd,4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I.Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean,f.Rector & f.Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki,Greece.
DAP-UoM (New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education)had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds(at least)have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books & simply copy info & answers during the exams(!)without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms & disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university. The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me & “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated & the way they target those who refuse to be their tools

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Critical questions need answers
1. Is impunity a “local”(institutional failure),national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret & I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International & European Studies & the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt?This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this odd visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP & a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police?Why didn’t the only witness to the incident testify? The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens & the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. On speaking out about corruption & clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick & should seek help).To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE . I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis & USEmbassy Athens? How did he use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network)to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency & those exposing clientelist networks?His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization)is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Αντικειμενικός σκοπός της μελέτης είναι η διερεύνηση της Στρατηγικής της Αποτροπής στη διασφάλιση της διακρατικής ισορροπίας και σταθερότητας, αναδεικνύοντας τις προϋποτιθέμενες συνθήκες για τη διαδικασία διαμόρφωσης-εφαρμογής της. Μέσα από τρεις διαδοχικές αλλά διαφορετικές ως προς το χωροχρονικό και γεωπολιτικό πλαίσιο περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες των ελληνοτουρκικών κρίσεων της εικοσαετίας (1976-1996) καταδεικνύεται το σύνολο της διαδικασίας διαμόρφωσης-εφαρμογής της ελληνικής αποτρεπτικής στρατηγικής καταγράφοντας τα σημεία τρωτότητας και αποτελεσματικότητάς της. Οι κρίσεις του 1976 και 1987 εκτυλίσσονται στο ψυχροπολεμικό διπολικό σύστημα (1945-1991), ενώ η κρίση των Ιμίων του 1996 ακολουθεί την αλλαγή στην πλανητική κατανομή ισχύος με την εγκαθίδρυση του μεταψυχροπολεμικού μονοπολυπολικού διεθνούς συστήματος. Κοινή συνισταμένη των τριών αυτών κρίσεων είναι η οριοθέτησή τους ως αυστηρά ενδοδυτικό ζήτημα περιορίζοντας τα περιθώρια ελευθερίας δράσεως των δύο συμμάχων κρατών από το διατακτικό της βορειοατλαντικής συμμαχίας και της ηγέτιδας δύναμης (ΗΠΑ).

Official Memorandum of Conversation on Turkish Invasion of Cyprus,1974-H. Kissinger, J.Sisco et al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ089ga9fSk&list=PLrxRuC7OWIQLOOjbuFgHuPF5ftvym0Al9&index=30

2023 update
Academia Memo on academic freedom, meritocracy and criminal networks
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/

2024 update on Academic Freedom / Free Speech / Meritocracy in www.uom.gr
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens and  f. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt! Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIA & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!

2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

First published online here:
https://profmegalommatistextsingreek.wordpress.com/μια-ρεαλιστική-ελληνική-πολιτική-για/

A realistic Greek policy for Kosova, Trito Mati monthly, fasc. 69, April 1998

Μια Ρεαλιστική Ελληνική Πολιτική για το Κοσόβα (προφητικό κείμενο του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη δημοσιευμένο τον Απρίλιο του 1998)

Όταν οι δύο μεγάλοι αντίπαλοι ΗΠΑ και ΕΕ συμφωνούν τουλάχιστον σε ένα σημείο: η Σερβία έχει μια βαρβαρορθοδοξοκομμουνιστική ηγεσία και πρέπει να της αφαιρεθεί το Κοσσυφοπέδιο.

Τρίτο Μάτι, τεύχος 69, Απρίλιος 1998

6-3-2020

Η συνάντηση του πρωθυπουργού με τους επικεφαλής των ευρωπαϊκών θεσμών στις Καστανιές έχει ιδιαίτερη σημασία σε πολλαπλά αλληλένδετα επίπεδα σημειολογίας και σημαινόμενων. Αυτά αφορούν την Ελλάδα, την ίδια την ΕΕ αλλά και το θολό πλαίσιο διαμόρφωσης μίας κανονικότητας που θα διέπει την όποια μελλοντική διαχείριση της κρίσης.

2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

2014
Η γερμανική εμπλοκή στη διένεξη της Ελλάδας με την ΠΓΔΜ είναι πολυεπίπεδη και λαμβάνει χώρα σε διαφορετικούς άξονες. Η Α. Μέρκελ δήλωσε στο πρόσφατο παρελθόν ότι ασχολείται «προσωπικά» με το θέμα. Ωστόσο το ζήτημα δεν είναι προσωπικό αλλά αφορά την προώθηση των γερμανικών επενδύσεων στην ΠΓΔΜ.

2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way