On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary since the establishment of IDIS in 1989, the Institute organized, in May 2010, an international conference on: Greece and the World in 2030
Its overall purpose was to promote the scholarly exchange on global and European governance challenges and the place of Greek foreign policy within those challenges.
Among others, the list of invited speakers included:
- Stephen Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Deputy Director at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, U.S.A.
- John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
- Kalypso Nicolaidis, Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations; Chair, South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), United Kingdom.
- Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, U.S.A.