PUBLICATIONS Vamvakas, Petros, “Turkey’s ISAF mission: A maverick with strategic depth,” Statebuilding in Afghanistan Multinational Contributions to Reconstruction, edited by Nik Hynek, Péter Marton, Routledge Press, July 2011. Vamvakas, Petros, “Black Sea Pipeline Geopolitics: The Iranian Keystone,” Journal of Southeastern European and Black Sea Studies, In Process Vamvakas, Petros, “Maastricht and the Death of Social Democracy: The Creation of A Consumer Culture,” Mediterranean Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue No. 4, Fall 2010. Vamvakas, Petros, “Beyond the Sovereign State in Post-Neoliberal Andean Politics: Plurinational Democracy and Bolivia,” Latin American Politics and Society, Article Under Peer Review. Vamvakas, Petros, “NATO and Turkey in Afghanistan and Central Asia: Possibilities and Blind Spots,” Turkish Studies, Volume 10, No.1, pp. 57-74, March 2009. Vamvakas, Petros, “Minority Rights and Self-Determination in the Post-Cold,” Emphasis, April 1995, Issue 1, Volume 1. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Vamvakas, Petros, “Global Insider: The Turkey-Greece Airspace Dispute,” World Politics Review, July 26, 2010, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/6126/global-insider-the-turkeygreece-airspace-dispute
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, RESEARCH PROJECTS & PRESENTATIONS Vamvakas, Petros, “Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: Turkey’s Neoconservatives,” Northeastern Political Science Association, November 11, 2010, Conference Paper Vamvakas, Petros, “Lotus Eaters of a Bitter Country: Memory of the Greek Civil War and Democracy,” Memory and Trauma of Civil War Series, Presentation Vamvakas, Petros, “Turkey’s Wardak Mission: Intervening with Cultural Sensitivities,” ISAF’s Provincial Reconstruction of Afghanistan, Metropolitan University Prague, Center for Security Studies, Prague Czech Republic, November 5, 2010, Conference Paper Vamvakas, Petros, “State-Building and Ethnicity before Democracy in Post-Neoliberal Andean Politics,” NPSA, Philadelphia, PA, November 2009, Conference Paper. Chair and Discussant, “Changing Politics and Economics in Latin America,” NPSA, Philadelphia, PA, November 2009. Vamvakas, Petros, “Democracy and Nationalism in post-neoliberal Andean Politics: The Case of Bolivia,” Quinto Congreso de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, June 2009, Conference Paper. Vamvakas, Petros, “Russia and Turkey and the Geopolitics of Energy,” MPSA, Chicago, IL, April 2009, Conference Paper. Chair and Discussant, “Social Heterogeneity and Democratic Development,” MPSA, Chicago, IL, April 2009.
Vamvakas, Petros, “Turkey and NATO in Central Asia: Possibilities and Blind spots,” Eighth International CISS Conference, Paris France, June 2008, Conference Paper. Attended and Participated in a series of roundtable discussions including Business and Academic leaders of greater New England on the Financial Crisis Chaired by Congressman Michael Capuano, member of Unites States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, November 2008 to March 2009. 2006 to Present – Associated with and have attended events at the Kokkalis Center of Southeastern Europe at Harvard University, by invitation. Vamvakas, Petros, “Maastricht and the Death of the European Social Democracy: The Creation of a Culture of Consumption” New England Political Science Association, Providence, RI, April 2008, Conference Paper. Attended NATO Conference Briefing prior to the NATO Heads of State and Governments Bucharest Summit of April 3, 2008, March 2008, Brussels, Belgium. Vamvakas, Petros, “Maastricht and the Death of the European Social Democracy,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 2007, Conference Paper. Vamvakas, Petros, “The Babel of European National Identity” New England Political Science Association, April 2007, Conference Paper. Attended as invited participant NATO Conference Briefing by the United States and Greek NATO Delegations to Greek-American academics, January 2007, Brussels, Belgium. Vamvakas, Petros, “Back to the Future: The Resurgence of National Identity in Unified Europe” 4th Annual History Conference sponsored by ATINER, Athens, Greece, December 2006, Conference Paper. Chair/Discussant, “Bullets into Ballots: Electoral Politics and Political Conflict,” NPSA, Boston, MA, November 2006. Vamvakas, Petros, Neoliberalism and Street Democracy: A Counter-Democratic Process,” NPSA, Boston, MA, November 2006, Conference Paper. Vamvakas, Petros, “Alliance Membership and the Threats to Democracy post- September 11, 2001,” MPSA, Chicago, IL, April 2006, Conference Paper. Chair Discussant, “Crisis, Instability and Democratic Breakdown,” MPSA, Chicago, IL, April 2006. Vamvakas, Petros, “Street Democracy and Neoliberalism in Latin America,” MPSA, Chicago, IL, April 2006, Conference Paper. Vamvakas, Petros, “Lessons from the Cold War, and Democratization in the Era of International Terrorism: The Undertow of the Third Wave” NPSA, Philadelphia, PA, November 2005, Conference Paper. Vamvakas, Petros, “What Price Membership? NATO Membership and Small States After September 11,” APSA, Chicago, IL, September 2004, Conference Paper. Vamvakas, Petros, “What Price Membership? NATO Membership and Small States After September 11,” ISSS/ISAC, Carlisle, PA, October 2003, Conference Paper. Vamvakas, Petros, “States in Transition and Defensive Alliances: Greece and Turkey in NATO,” APSA, San Francisco, CA, September 2001, Conference Paper.
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PRESENT RESEARCH PROJECTS My work has concentrated on issues of security and democratization as well as international law and the role of international institutions in the domestic arena. I am particularly interested in Southeastern Europe and Latin America.