Nikolaos Tzifakis (PhD Lancsaster) holds a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Foreign Policy and the Western Balkans and is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of the Peloponnese (2009 to the present). His research interests include Balkan politics, EU external and security policies and international relations theory. Recent publications include articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Conflict, Security & Development, Ethnopolitics, European Foreign Affairs Review, Global Society, International Journal, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Problems of Post-Communism, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Southeastern Europe, and Voluntas. He is the editor of International Politics in Times of Change (Springer, 2012) and co-editor (with Pantelis Sklias) of Greece's Horizons (Springer, 2013). In 2008, he was awarded the Marcel Cadieux Distinguished Writing Award for his co-authored article with Professor Asteris Huliaras in International Journal.