Petros Vamvakas

Dr. Petros Vamvakas
Education
Ph.D., Boston University; M.A., Northeastern University; B.A., Suffolk University
Bio
I am Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts. My area of interest is the intersection of international security and democratization. Since the 1990s, I have researched, written, presented and published on the general topic, covering a wide geographic area from the Andes to Central Asia. Since 2012 my work has focused on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Caribbean, especially as geopolitical shifts have affected issues of geopolitical security and democratization in these regions.
I teach courses in Comparative Politics, International Relations and Political Theory and have developed a number of courses such as Street Democracy, Imagining the Nation in Modernity, Revolution and Nationalism, American Foreign Policy as well as a travel course in Greece: In the Steps of Thucydides.
Since 2012, I have directed and taught at the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Summer Program in Crete. My most recent presentations and publications center on “Global Stability and The Geopolitical Vortex of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Caribbean.” In 2018, I founded and currently direct the Emmanuel College Institute of Eastern Mediterranean Studies