Theodore A. Couloumbis is Professor Emeritus of international relations at the University of Athens. He is also Member of the Honorary Committee at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), after being Member of the Board of Directors and Director-General for several years. In 1995-96 he was a senior fellow with the United States Institute of Peace and in 2006-2007 a policy scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His work focuses on conflict resolution in the post-Cold War international setting and on aspects of Greek foreign policy. He is co-author (with James H. Wolfe) of a well-known text book, International Relations: Power and Justice, Prentice Hall, 4th ed. 1990, author of US, Greece and Turkey: The Troubled Triangle (Praeger,1983) and co-editor of the new Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Frank Cass and ELIAMEP). His more recent publications include the Greek Junta Phenomenon (Pella, 2004) and a co-edited volume, Greece in the 20th Century (Frank Cass, 2005). He served as president of Eliamep in Athens (l993-95), president of the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki (1988-90) and president of the Hellenic Society for International Law an International Relations (1985-87). In the years 1965-83, Couloumbis was professor of international relations at the American University’s School of International Service in Washington DC where he received several awards for outstanding teaching. From 1983 to 1989 he was professor of international relations at the School of Law of the University of Thessaloniki, moving to the University of Athens early in 1990. In addition to his scholarly output, he is a regular columnist and frequent contributor to Kathimerini. He holds B.A./ (1956) and M.A./ (1958) degrees in political science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D./ (1963) in international relations from the American University.
Theodore Couloumbis
Member of the Honorary Committee, ELIAMEP; Professor Emeritus, University of Athens, International relations
FONSI- Forum on new Security Issues
July 15, 2008 - July 15, 2009
Διατλαντικές Σχέσεις
May 2, 2008
Building Citizenhood in a Democratic Cyprus
August 28, 2005
The Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece, Turkey
October 22, 1998
The search for a European identity
January 12, 2006
ELIAMEP joins the debate on the crisis in Turkey
July 30, 2013
11th Annual European Seminar of ELIAMEP
July 7, 2011
Quotes by ELIAMEP Vice President, Prof. Theodore Couloumbis
November 7, 2010
Press Conference - ELIAMEP's proposal on Kosovo
December 1, 2005