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Konstantina Botsiou
Professor of Political History and International Relations
University of Piraeus
Konstantina Botsiou is Professor of Political History and International Relations at the
Department of International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus,
where she served as Dean of the School of Economics, Business and International
Studies. She graduated with honors from the Department of History and
Archaeology, University of Athens, and holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen.
She has taught at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration,
University of Athens, and at the Department of Political Science and International
Relations, University of the Peloponnese, where she also served as Vice Rector for
Economics, Education and Quality Assurance. Since 2016 she is Visiting Professor at
the Hellenic National Defense College (HNDC) and since 2020 General Director of the
Council for International Relations-Greece (CfIR-GR). Between 2001 and 2018 she
was Director of Publications, General Director and Vice President at the Konstantinos
Karamanlis Institute for Democracy. She has been a research fellow at the Jean
Monnet European Center of Excellence-University of Athens, the Hellenic National
Audiovisual Archive, the LSE-IDEAS, the Bank of Greece. She was a member of the
academic council of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the Hellenic
Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy and the Political
Academy of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as a member of the
Board of Directors at the National Library of Greece. She has also participated in the
editorial board of the quarterlies Liberal Emphasis and Policy Journal. She has
received grants and scholarships from Greek and international organizations
(Erasmus, ECTS, European Teachers Association, LSE-IDEAS, US-IVLP, US Embassy in
Greece, DAAD, Konstantinos Karamanlis Foundation, A. Andreadis Fund, a.o.). Her
publications focus on modern and contemporary Greek and European history,
European integration, the Cold War, Balkan history, Euro-Atlantic relations, political
parties, defense and foreign policy. She has authored and edited over 15 books and
over 140 academic articles and book chapters.
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