The Balkans Today: Between European Integration and the American-Russian Antagonism

Dr Spyridon Sfetas, Associate Professor, Philosophical Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Monday 30 August 2010

Spyridon Sfetas was born in Kilada-Larissis in 1960. From 1978 to 1983 he studied Greek Philology and History at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. From 1984 to 1991 he completed Postgraduate Studies on the field of Balkan History and Slavonic Philology in Munich. In 1991 he got a PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich with a thesis on the Macedonian Issue. From 1993 he has been working as Research Fellow in the Institute for Balkan Studies (Thessaloniki). In 1999 he was elected Lecturer on Modern and Contemporary Balkan History at the Philosophical Faculty - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2004 he was elected Assistant Professor and in 2009 Associate Professor. He is currently teaching Balkan History from the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans to the End of the Cold War (1354-1989). He focuses on topics of identities, nationalism, communism, inter-Balkan relations and the policy of the Great Powers.