THanos Veremis

Thanos Veremis was born on August 26, 1943, in Athens. He studied political science at Boston University and history at the University of Oxford (Trinity College). In 1978, he was a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), in 1983, a visiting researcher at Harvard University, in 1987, a visiting professor at Princeton University, and in 1993-1994, a visiting professor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Since 1987, he has been a professor of political history in the Department of Political Science at the University of Athens. From 1988 to 1994, he served as director of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and was its president until 2000. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Constantine Karamanlis Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and from 2004 to 2010, he served as president of the National Council of Education (ESYP). He is currently a municipal councilor in the Municipality of Athens. Books (among others): - (Adelphi Paper No 179), "Greek Security: Issues and Policies", 1972. - "Military Interventions in Greek Politics 1916-1936", 1977/1983. - "Dictatorship and Economy", 1982. - "The Modern World", 1983. - "The National Bank in Asia Minor", 1984. - "Greek-Turkish Relations", 1986. - "Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece", 1995. - "Greece's Balkan Entanglement", 1995. - "The Greek Military in Politics from Independence to Democracy", 1997. - "Greece. The Modern Sequel", 2002. and others.