Kostas Ifantis is Professor of International Relations, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens. He worked as a Lecturer in International and European Politics at the Universities of Bradford and Portsmouth, UK (1991-1995). Also he served as an Assistant Professor (1998-2003) and an Associate Professor (2003-2015) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He was a USIA Visiting Fellow at the Center for Political studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1998) a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002), an IAA Senior Research Fellow at the LSE (2009), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Seoul (Summer 2016). In the period 2012-2020 he was a Visiting Professor at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. Between 2005 and 2008 he served as Director for Research at the Policy Planning Center of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His papers have appeared in edited books and in periodicals such as Democratization, Turkish Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Perceptions, International Journal, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, International Relations, UNISCI Journal on International Relations and Security, Global Review etc.
His books include Greece in a Changing Europe, (co-ed., Manchester University Press, 1996); NATO in the New European Order, (Macmillan, 1996); Theory and Reform in the European Union, (Manchester University Press, 2002); and NATO and the New Security Paradigm, (Frank Cass 2002); Turkish-Greek Relations: The Security Dilemma in the Aegean, (co-ed., Routledge, 2004); International Security Today (co-ed., SAM, 2006); Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization, (co-ed., Routledge, 2009); Turkey’s road to European Union membership: national identity and political change, (co-ed., Routledge, 2009). International Political Theory: The charm of realist discourse (in Greek, 2012); Is Europe Afraid of Europe? (ed., Wilfrid Martens Center, 2014); The Syrian Imbroglio: International and Regional Strategies (co-ed., The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, 2017), “Deciphering the Greek Crisis: Issues, Failures, Challenges” (guest co-ed, Special Issue in International Relations/Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol 15, No 58, 2018).