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The theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) as a tool of the foreign policy of the German Empire and Nazi Germany

Summary of Bachelor thesis-Title of thesis: "The theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) as a tool of... more Summary of Bachelor thesis-Title of thesis: "The theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) as a tool of the foreign policy of the German Empire and Nazi Germany"

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The Theory of Lebensraum as a tool of the Foreign Policy of the German Empire and Nazi Germany-Bachelor Thesis (Greek), 2018

Ο άλλοτε «απαγορευμένος» όρος της «γεωπολιτικής» έχει πλέον, τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες και ιδιαίτε... more Ο άλλοτε «απαγορευμένος» όρος της «γεωπολιτικής» έχει πλέον, τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες και ιδιαίτερα μετά το πέρας του Ψυχρού Πολέμου, επιστρέψει από την «εξορία», στην οποία είχε υποχρεωθεί να καταφύγει μετά το τέλος του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου κυρίως λόγω της σύνδεσής της με τη ναζιστική εξωτερική πολιτική και τις γερμανικές διεκδικήσεις. Βέβαια η επανεμφάνισή της έχει ξεκινήσει από τη δεκαετία του 1970 με την έννοια της «νέας γεωπολιτικής», η ανάπτυξη της οποίας έλαβε μέρος κυρίως στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής, τη Γαλλία και τη Μεγάλη Βρετανία

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Russia and the West on Putin’s Mind: A Discourse Analysis of Vladimir Putin’s Speeches Through the Lens of Speech Act Theory, 2020

The relations between Russia and its Western neighbors have always been in the center of the inte... more The relations between Russia and its Western neighbors have always been in the center of the international community’s interest with periods of confrontation succeeding periods of deep cooperation and vice versa. Today it seems like we are in a phase of mild confrontation between the two sides. Vladimir Putin, the political figure that dominates Russian politics for 20 years now, has repeatedly criticized NATO’s and the West’s activities throughout the globe, especially after his 2007 Munich speech, where, for the first time, he openly attacked NATO’s plans and practices and warned that Russia would not stay idle towards such behavior. Thirteen years after this speech and the tensions are still tight. This thesis will be an effort to understand how Vladimir Putin has viewed the relations between Russia and the Western world over his years of governing, through a discourse analysis of a set of the Russian President’s speeches during this timeline, along with the assist of Speech Act Theory, a sociological theory for understanding how spoken words may in fact produce actions. The analysis will be divided into three periods-categories, which will be separately examined and then compared to one another.

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Papers by Dimitrios Koliopoulos

Milan Kundera, the Prague Spring and the Exile Organizations, 2020

This work will attempt to answer to two main research questions; The first is about the size of t... more This work will attempt to answer to two main research questions; The first is about the size of the influence that Kundera had on the development of the Prague Spring Movement in 1968 through his literary work as well as his interventions with speeches and actions. The second one, and most difficult to answer surely, is whether potential links of Kundera to exile organizations, such as the Assembly of Captive European Nations, Radio Free Europe and Council of Free Czechoslovakia, and its prominent members, like Petr Zenkl or Pavel Tigrid, exist. There will also be an in-between part to cover an ambiguous accusation by the historian Adam Hradilek of Kundera having performed the act of denunciation of a western agent to the communist police back in the 1950s to shed light on the communist past of the author and strengthen or weaken several points of this research.

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Dugin’s Neo Eurasianism and Ukraine, 2020

This work will be an effort applying a qualitative case study analysis methodology setting Ukrain... more This work will be an effort applying a qualitative case study analysis methodology setting Ukraine as the case study to be analyzed in the context of Neo-Eurasianism. It will begin with a historical exploration of the Eurasianist and the Neo-Eurasianist movements and then, it will emphasize on the point of view of this group of Russian political and social thinkers, the Eurasianists and especially their current successors, the Neo-Eurasianists, concerning what Ukraine represents for Russia. The data will be collected mainly from journals and books which will mainly be based on the thoughts of the leading figure of the Neo-Eurasianist ideology, Aleksandr Dugin, but there is also going to be an attempt to detach his thoughts on Ukraine from several speeches, debates and interviews that he delivered. Ukraine has been a central element of the Russian foreign policy during the last decades and the Crimean and Eastern Ukraine campaigns has been the peak of this Russian enthusiasm concerning the neighboring country. But what does Eurasianism and Neo-Eurasianism have to say about this entity and its historical, cultural and identity roots?

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The Framework and the Effectiveness of the EU-AU Security Cooperation, 2020

This work will examine this case of interregional cooperation between the EU and Africa, and spec... more This work will examine this case of interregional cooperation between the EU and Africa, and specifically the cooperation between the EU and AU in the security sector. After presenting the framework and the complexity under which EU-AU relations operate on a daily basis, we shall first point out the fundamental elements of the security cooperation between the two entities and then explore the dimensions of their security cooperation in depth, based on the fundamental joint strategies and agreements of their partnership. In the end, we will proceed with an evaluation of the effectiveness of the EU-AU security cooperation by analyzing two of the most important case studies of joint security operations; The case of Somalia and the support of the EU to the African Union’s Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) and the case of the Central African Republic and EU’s support to the African Union’s Mission for the Support of Central African Republic (MISCA) through its own deployment of a separate mission, the EUFOR RCA Mission.

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Book Reviews by Dimitrios Koliopoulos

Multipolarity and the Russian Foreign Policy-Book Review on: Sergunin, A. A. (2016). Explaining Russian foreign policy behavior: theory and practice. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2020

We already count twenty years since the dawn of the new millennium and almost thirty years when t... more We already count twenty years since the dawn of the new millennium and almost thirty years when the dissolution of the Soviet Union took place, however post-Soviet Russia still struggles to find out its place into the new post-Cold War order. Alexander Sergunin, professor in the Faculty of International Relations of the Saint Petersburg State University, in his book “Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Behavior: Theory and Practice”, attempts to explore, depict and analyze post-Soviet Russia’s Foreign Policy activities and behavior, as well as describe its decision making system.

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The theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) as a tool of the foreign policy of the German Empire and Nazi Germany

Summary of Bachelor thesis-Title of thesis: "The theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) as a tool of... more Summary of Bachelor thesis-Title of thesis: "The theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) as a tool of the foreign policy of the German Empire and Nazi Germany"

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The Theory of Lebensraum as a tool of the Foreign Policy of the German Empire and Nazi Germany-Bachelor Thesis (Greek), 2018

Ο άλλοτε «απαγορευμένος» όρος της «γεωπολιτικής» έχει πλέον, τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες και ιδιαίτε... more Ο άλλοτε «απαγορευμένος» όρος της «γεωπολιτικής» έχει πλέον, τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες και ιδιαίτερα μετά το πέρας του Ψυχρού Πολέμου, επιστρέψει από την «εξορία», στην οποία είχε υποχρεωθεί να καταφύγει μετά το τέλος του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου κυρίως λόγω της σύνδεσής της με τη ναζιστική εξωτερική πολιτική και τις γερμανικές διεκδικήσεις. Βέβαια η επανεμφάνισή της έχει ξεκινήσει από τη δεκαετία του 1970 με την έννοια της «νέας γεωπολιτικής», η ανάπτυξη της οποίας έλαβε μέρος κυρίως στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής, τη Γαλλία και τη Μεγάλη Βρετανία

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Russia and the West on Putin’s Mind: A Discourse Analysis of Vladimir Putin’s Speeches Through the Lens of Speech Act Theory, 2020

The relations between Russia and its Western neighbors have always been in the center of the inte... more The relations between Russia and its Western neighbors have always been in the center of the international community’s interest with periods of confrontation succeeding periods of deep cooperation and vice versa. Today it seems like we are in a phase of mild confrontation between the two sides. Vladimir Putin, the political figure that dominates Russian politics for 20 years now, has repeatedly criticized NATO’s and the West’s activities throughout the globe, especially after his 2007 Munich speech, where, for the first time, he openly attacked NATO’s plans and practices and warned that Russia would not stay idle towards such behavior. Thirteen years after this speech and the tensions are still tight. This thesis will be an effort to understand how Vladimir Putin has viewed the relations between Russia and the Western world over his years of governing, through a discourse analysis of a set of the Russian President’s speeches during this timeline, along with the assist of Speech Act Theory, a sociological theory for understanding how spoken words may in fact produce actions. The analysis will be divided into three periods-categories, which will be separately examined and then compared to one another.

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Milan Kundera, the Prague Spring and the Exile Organizations, 2020

This work will attempt to answer to two main research questions; The first is about the size of t... more This work will attempt to answer to two main research questions; The first is about the size of the influence that Kundera had on the development of the Prague Spring Movement in 1968 through his literary work as well as his interventions with speeches and actions. The second one, and most difficult to answer surely, is whether potential links of Kundera to exile organizations, such as the Assembly of Captive European Nations, Radio Free Europe and Council of Free Czechoslovakia, and its prominent members, like Petr Zenkl or Pavel Tigrid, exist. There will also be an in-between part to cover an ambiguous accusation by the historian Adam Hradilek of Kundera having performed the act of denunciation of a western agent to the communist police back in the 1950s to shed light on the communist past of the author and strengthen or weaken several points of this research.

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Dugin’s Neo Eurasianism and Ukraine, 2020

This work will be an effort applying a qualitative case study analysis methodology setting Ukrain... more This work will be an effort applying a qualitative case study analysis methodology setting Ukraine as the case study to be analyzed in the context of Neo-Eurasianism. It will begin with a historical exploration of the Eurasianist and the Neo-Eurasianist movements and then, it will emphasize on the point of view of this group of Russian political and social thinkers, the Eurasianists and especially their current successors, the Neo-Eurasianists, concerning what Ukraine represents for Russia. The data will be collected mainly from journals and books which will mainly be based on the thoughts of the leading figure of the Neo-Eurasianist ideology, Aleksandr Dugin, but there is also going to be an attempt to detach his thoughts on Ukraine from several speeches, debates and interviews that he delivered. Ukraine has been a central element of the Russian foreign policy during the last decades and the Crimean and Eastern Ukraine campaigns has been the peak of this Russian enthusiasm concerning the neighboring country. But what does Eurasianism and Neo-Eurasianism have to say about this entity and its historical, cultural and identity roots?

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The Framework and the Effectiveness of the EU-AU Security Cooperation, 2020

This work will examine this case of interregional cooperation between the EU and Africa, and spec... more This work will examine this case of interregional cooperation between the EU and Africa, and specifically the cooperation between the EU and AU in the security sector. After presenting the framework and the complexity under which EU-AU relations operate on a daily basis, we shall first point out the fundamental elements of the security cooperation between the two entities and then explore the dimensions of their security cooperation in depth, based on the fundamental joint strategies and agreements of their partnership. In the end, we will proceed with an evaluation of the effectiveness of the EU-AU security cooperation by analyzing two of the most important case studies of joint security operations; The case of Somalia and the support of the EU to the African Union’s Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) and the case of the Central African Republic and EU’s support to the African Union’s Mission for the Support of Central African Republic (MISCA) through its own deployment of a separate mission, the EUFOR RCA Mission.

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Multipolarity and the Russian Foreign Policy-Book Review on: Sergunin, A. A. (2016). Explaining Russian foreign policy behavior: theory and practice. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2020

We already count twenty years since the dawn of the new millennium and almost thirty years when t... more We already count twenty years since the dawn of the new millennium and almost thirty years when the dissolution of the Soviet Union took place, however post-Soviet Russia still struggles to find out its place into the new post-Cold War order. Alexander Sergunin, professor in the Faculty of International Relations of the Saint Petersburg State University, in his book “Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Behavior: Theory and Practice”, attempts to explore, depict and analyze post-Soviet Russia’s Foreign Policy activities and behavior, as well as describe its decision making system.

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