Political scientist youngest person honored by Athens Academy

Giorgos Kalpadakis is the youngest person to be honored with an award by the Athens Academy, already having made his mark on the academic community through his books Bertrand Russel and Civil War Greece (Ekdoseis ton synadelfon, 2012) and the Macedonian Issue 1962-1995: From Silence to Popular Diplomacy (Kastaniotis, 2012).

According to recent observations of his, concerning, the European crisis, Giorgos Kalpadakis notes that northern European countries present a united front, while beleaguered countries in the south are fragmented losing political power. On the Macedonian issue, in which he specializes, Kalpadakis sees a neighboring FYROM slipping into undemocratic practices, hindering any hopes for European accession.

Giorgos Kalpadakis was born in 1981, in Athens. He has studied at the University College London (UCL), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the University of Athens, from which in 2009 he received a PhD.

He has been honored in Stockholm by the European Council of International Schools with the ECIS Award for international understanding and in London by University College London with an award of excellence in science and technology studies.

He has published articles on international relations, international political economy, and contemporary political history in Greek and foreign journals and in compendium volumes.

He has been a contributor to LSE's "Millennium" magazine and a research fellow of the Hellenic center for European Studies, while also contributing to Kathimerini newspaper.

He is an external scientific associate of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle Foundation, and teaches at the Politics Faculty of the Thrace University Law School.