Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, ‘Stavros Costopoulos’ Research Fellow at ELIAMEP and Managing Editor of the journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies participated in the conference entitled “Security, Democracy and Development in the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea”. The conference took place on 11-13 October 2012 in Istanbul and was organised by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN) and Kadir Has University. Dr. Armakolas participated in the special session on academic publishing in which he presented the journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.