Education: He read international relations, history and international political economy at the Universities of Athens, Perugia and London (Queen Mary College)

Career: Vassilis Fouskas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Piraeus, Greece. From 2005 until 2008, he was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Stirling and, prior to that, he was a Reader in International Relations at Kingston University, UK. He was a Leverhulme Trust Fellow in the UK from 2002–03 and a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University. His research focuses on US foreign policy and grand strategy after World War II, the international relations and geopolitics of Eurasia and the Cyprus issue. He is currently completing a major work on the vulnerabilities of the US Empire, discussing such diverse works as those written by Peter Gowan, David Harvey, Charles Kupchan, Christopher Layne and John Mearsheimer. Vassilis K. Fouskas is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, formerly titled Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans (see url below).

Publications include: Italy, Europe and the Left 1998, Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East 2003, The New American Imperialism: Bush’s War on Terror and Blood for Oil (co-author with Bülent Gökay) 2005, The Politics of Conflict (editor) 2007, Cyprus: The post-Imperial Constitution (co-author with Alex Tackie) 2009; articles published in Contemporary European History, European Security, Mediterranean Quarterly; work translated into more than ten languages

Contact details: Address: Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus, 150 Androutsou Str, Piraeus, 18532, Greece; Tel: +30 210-4142732; Fax: +30 210-4142717; Email: vfouskas@unipi.gr ; Website: http://www.unipi.gr/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14613190.asp/ .