{"id":1263,"date":"2015-04-23T06:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T06:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dms.aegean.gr\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2021-04-06T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T09:12:45","slug":"kefala-paraskevi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dms.aegean.gr\/en\/faculty-members\/kefala-paraskevi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kefala Paraskevi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-32 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dms.aegean.gr\/content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/\u039a\u03b5\u03c6\u03b1\u03bb\u03ac-\u0392\u03b9\u03b2\u03ae.jpg\" alt=\"\u039a\u03b5\u03c6\u03b1\u03bb\u03ac \u0392\u03b9\u03b2\u03ae\" width=\"200\" height=\"auto\" \/>Vivi Kefala is Professor of International Relations in the Middle East, at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. She studied Political Science and International Relations at the Panteion University of Athens. She did her post-graduate studies in Political Sociology (Universit\u00e9 de Paris X, Nanterre) and in Political Sciences \u2013 International Relations (Universit\u00e9 de Droit d\u2019Economie et de Sciences Sociales de Paris, Paris II) and she received her Ph.D. in International Relations from Universit\u00e9 de Paris II. She also followed post-graduate courses at the University of Louvain La-Neuve in Belgium (1989).<\/p>\n<p>She worked as an foreign policy and international affairs analyst at the National Hellenic Radio (1985\u20132007), and she served as scientific advisor at the publication of \u201cGreat History of 20th Century\u201d and at the renewed edition of the encyclopedia \u201cDomi\u201d. She has also served as a Research Fellow at the Panteion University, Faculty of International and European Studies (1985\u20131989) and a member of the Institute of International Relations, Panteion University. She is a member of the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations and she now serves as the Director of the Center for Mediterranean and Middle-eastern Policy and Culture (KEMMEP).<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kefala has published books, monographs and articles on the United States and Russia policies in the Middle East, the Palestinian Question, the Turkish policy in the Middle East, on the issue of Lebanon, the Iraqi Question, the political Islam and on regional security issues in the Balkans. Her books, contributions in edited volumes and articles have been published in Greece, France, the United States and Canada and in professional journals, including: Hellenic Studies\/Etudes Hell\u00e9niques, Middle East Forum etc.<\/p>\n<p>Her books\/monographs include: Iran: Policy, Economy and International Relations (Papazissis, Athens, 2014 [in Greek, coeditor with Charalambos Tsardanides]; L\u2019\u00e9volution de la Question Libanaise. Les Facteurs D\u00e9terminants (L\u2019Harmattan, Paris, 2011), Kossovo: The Image of War and the Post-Milosevitch Era (Sideris Publ., Athens, 2001 [in Greek, with Christodoulos Yallourides]. She is now completing a book-length manuscript on North Africa: Internal, Regional and International Politics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivi Kefala is Professor of International Relations in the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-members"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kefala Paraskevi - \u03a4\u03bc\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1 \u039c\u03b5\u03c3\u03bf\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03ce\u03bd \u03a3\u03c0\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03ce\u03bd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vivi Kefala is Professor of International Relations in the Middle East, at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Rhodes,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dms.aegean.gr\/en\/faculty-members\/kefala-paraskevi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kefala Paraskevi - 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