A pivotal question about the future of democracy: is the democratic status of a state confined to its staging free and fair elections?
All manner of predictions, both utopian or dystopian, have been made about artificial intelligence, but the exponential nature of the technology means that none have hit the mark
The climate crisis is now testing both the resilience of democracy and the cohesion of society through its impact on food security, migration, water scarcity, biodiversity, natural disasters and social inequalities
Fifty years ago, Mark Granovetter, a young Harvard Ph.D. student who would later become a professor at Stanford University, wrote an article entitled “The strength of weak ties”. The article was hugely influential (72,000 citations) and was the founding text of an entire school of thought: Network Theory. According to Granovetter, while strong ties (i.e. […]
History makes it clear that India was far less terra incognita for Greece that other Asian countries
Instability has emerged as a new norm in the international system in recent years.
The presidential and parliamentary elections held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 were closely watched globally, as their potential implications could reverberate far beyond the island’s shores. Two oft-quoted arguments relate to the fact that Taiwan is home to a huge chunk of the world’s cutting-edge semiconductors, and the volume of maritime traffic through the […]
The well-known adage that it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, is even more true of 2024.
2023 was a good year for relations between the two countries. And 2024 is expected to be even better
Predictions are always risky, but they’re even trickier than usual right now that the prospects for the European (and Greek) economy in 2024 depend on the outcome of events that are either ongoing or will not be happening until the middle or end of the year.
In 2024, the Western Balkans will have to navigate domestic political volatility, security problems and an uncertain ‘restart’ in enlargement policy
The decline of the Greek language in the United States is a poignant issue, rooted in insufficient funding and a lack of prioritization
2023 was an important year for migration and asylum in the European Union (EU), but also worldwide
The Linguistics professor from the University of Ioannina talks about the challenges facing the Humanities today, but also about an academic initiative, the International Summer University, which will this year be completing its first decade in operation.
There are times when the sound of the shifting tectonic plates of history rings out a little more clearly
Every living organism mobilizes its immune system in response to external invasions and threats. Failure to do so indicates a system that is in decline and nearing the end of its life cycle. A reaction, even if it fails to cure the system, indicates that the system is functional and alert. In political terms, the […]
I wrote in last year’s Outlook that the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent energy crisis had thrown Europe’s ambitions of strategic autonomy into disarray. Europe’s military and energy dependencies leave little room for manoeuvre in an era in which weapons have the first word and economic relations are weaponized for political ends. I […]
2023: an assessment The consolidation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule over Turkey was the most significant political news of 2023. Neither the painful earthquakes of 6 February 2023 nor the unprecedented mobilization of the οopposition was enough to bring change to Turkey’s political arena. Despite disappointment at the delayed mobilization of the ill-prepared Turkish […]
In last year’s Outlook, we expressed our concerns that 2023 could turn out to be the “most difficult” year yet for Greek-Turkish relations. Our concerns were not founded entirely in the fact that—though the year was ending with Greek-Turkish tensions at lower and/or more controlled levels than the two years that preceded it (2021 & […]
The past year was one of the calmest in Greek-Turkish relations, with the rapidly improving bilateral climate culminating in the recent High Cooperation Council meeting and the adoption of the Athens Declaration