Thanos Dokos is the Prime Minister’s new national security adviser



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By decision of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Thanos Dokos, deputy national security adviser since October 2019, will assume the functions of national security adviser to the prime minister.

According to government sources, the immediate priority of Mr. Dokos and the Office of National Security is to complete the national security strategy and the establishment of the National Security Council.

Thanos Dokos has a PhD in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Cambridge. He has been a researcher at the Frankfurt Peace Research Institute and the Center for Science and International Relations at Harvard University. From March 1996 to October 1998 he served as Scientific Officer of the Directorate of Strategic Studies of the Ministry of National Defense and from 1998 to 1999 as NATO Advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He served as General Manager of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He has taught at the Universities of Piraeus and Athens, the School of National Defense, the School of National Security, and the Diplomatic Academy. Recent publications include: “The Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf region in 2020”, German Marshall Fund, Brussels, 2011; “Who Lost Greece: The Geopolitical Consequences of the Greek Crisis”, ELIAMEP Policy Papers, February 2012; “Energy Developments and Greek Foreign Policy” (with Th. Tsakiri), ELIAMEP Policy Papers, February 2012, “The Difficult Relationship Between Accounting and Geopolitics”, Europe’s World, April 2013, Greece can still be a geopolitical asset for the EU ‘, The World of Europe, Summer 2013, “The Geopolitical Implications of Sino-Greek Relations”, Clingendael Asia Forum, July 2013; ‘Iran Nuclear Propensity: the Probability of Nuclear Use’, EU Non-Proliferation Consortium, March 2014, ‘How the EU Got It So Wrong in Ukraine’, Europe’s World, April 2014, “Greek foreign policy under the sword Damocles economic crisis ”, Katoptron No. 2, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Athens, April 2015,” Greek foreign policy towards the Middle East “, Welt Trends, May 2015,” Would GREXIT be a geopolitical disaster? “, Strategic Europe, Carnegie Europe, June 17, 2015; ‘It’s the War in Syria Stupid!’, Europe’s World, September 2015.

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