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Tenured Assistant Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science & Public Administration

Education: BA, School of Philosophy, University of Athens - MA in Modern Turkish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London – PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Areas of research interest:
  • Turkey's international relations particularly relations with the U.S.A, Greece and Israel
  • Greek-Turkish relations
  • U.S.A. relations with the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly relations with Turkey and Greece
  • Greece's international relations
  • Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Transatlantic relations

She has published in numerous journals including Journal of Middle East Policy, Orient, Middle Eastern Studies, Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, The International Spectator, The World Today.

She is the author of the books: 

  • Turkey's Relations with Israel: The First Sixty Two Years, 1948-2010 (London, Routledge, 2024)[forthcoming]
  • Strategic Relations Between the U.S. and Turkey, 1979-2000: Sleeping With a Tiger (London, Routledge, 2014).
  • Turkey, Anglo-American Security Interests 1945-1952; The First Enlargement of NATO (London, Frank Cass, 1999)

Co-editor of, I Exoteriki Politiki tis Elladas: Epiloges ke Prosodkies ston 21 Aeona [The Foreign Policy of Greece: Choices and Expectations in the 21st Century] (Athens, Papazisis, 2020).

Editor of, Fighting Organized Crime in Southeast Europe (London, Routledge, 2005); United in Diversity? European Integration and Political Cultures (London, I.B. Tauris, 2008).

Ekavi Athanassopoulou is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (London), having previously served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mediterranean Politics (London) (2002 - 2010).

Former Visiting Research positions: Research Associate of the Balkan International Affairs, LSE Ideas, London School of Economics;  Research Associate at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Visiting Scholar at the University of Bilgi (Istanbul); German Marshall Fund of the US European Fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy (Los Angeles); Visiting Scholar at the Kokkalis Program, on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University; Visiting Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Visiting Research Fellow at the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies (Paris).

 Ekavi Athanassopoulou teaches the following courses:

 Under-graduate

 Introduction to International Relations

 International Relations

 Greek-Turkish Relations

Post-graduate

The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East: U.S. foreign and security policy

International Politics: Contemporary issues and debates