A/Professor of International Law and International Relations. For the past ten years he has been with Istanbul Bilgi University, where he has been the Director of the M.A. in International Relations Program and the Director of the Turkish-Greek Studies Division. In Istanbul he was also Adjunct Professor of International Law at Koc University. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the Panteion University of Athens, he has held positions at the University of Cambridge and the Institute of International Relations, Athens. His teaching and research interests lie primarily in the fields of Public International Law, international organizations and Greek-Turkish relations and has published extensively in these areas. His recent publications include “The prospects for Exploration and Exploitation of Oil and Gas in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean: Some Observations”, in Faustman, H., Gurel, A. and Reichberg, G.M., Cyprus Offshore Hydrocarbons: Regional Politics and Wealth Distribution. Oslo-Nicosia: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Peace Rerearch Institute Oslo (PRIO) Cyprus Centre, PCC Report 1/2012;  “The Politics of Law or the Law of Politics? International Law vs. International Politics and the Global Challenges in Governance and Sustainable Development”, Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF): Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Political Science, Sociology and International Relations (PSSIR), 2011; “Alternative Forms of Nationalism: Superiority through Law in Greek Foreign Policy”, in Aktar, A., Kizilyurek, N.&  Ozkirimli, U. (ed.) Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; “Europe, Nationalism and Turkish-Greek Aegean Disputes”, in Nikolaidis, K., Anastasakis, O.&  Oktem, K. (ed.) Under the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Post-Nationalism. Leiden& Boston: Brill/ Martinus Nijhoff, 2009.