1st Edition
Greece and Spain in European Foreign Policy The Influence of Southern Member States in Common Foreign and Security Policy
Biography
Dimitrios Kavakas, Dr, History and International Relations Department, CEDEFOP, Greece. After studying journalism in the beginning of the 1990s in Greece I worked as a political correspondent for a Greek TV and Radio Station and as a Press Officer in the Ministry of Defence. Later I got a degree in International Politics from Wales (Aberystwyth) and I did a PhD research in Leeds. During my time in Leeds University I was employed as a research officer. In 2000 I returned to Greece where I work as a Press & Public Relations Officer for an EU agency and teach European Politics part-time at the American College of Thessaloniki. This is the first book I am publishing but I have a number of conference papers, one research papers published, one journal article and a chapter in an edited book.
’Commonly held assumptions and misconceptions about the EU’s southern states are taken apart in this book for those interested in comparing two Mediterranean states’ adjustment to being inside the European Community. Dr Kavakas carefully illuminates both the sometimes unanticipated processes and policy changes that participation in the EC and EU requires.’ Professor Juliet Lodge, University of Leeds, UK ’...provides a comprehensive picture of the behaviour of Spain and Greece in the framework of the CFSP and it introduces themes that open up space for further analysis. ’ Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans ’...an interesting study of two member states that are still in search of a definitive role within the European Union.’ Journal of European Integration History
