Kostas Ifantis

Kostas Ifantis

Professor of International Relations and President of the Institute of International Relations

Panteion University, Greece

Kostas Ifantis (Konstantinos Yfantis) is Professor of International Relations, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens. He is also the Director of the Institute of International Relations (www.isis.gr).

He worked as a Lecturer in International and European Politics at the Universities of Bradford and Portsmouth, UK (1991-1995). He served as an Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athen until 2015. He was a USIA Visiting Scholar 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), a 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. Currently, he serves as the Scientific Director of the Center for Foreign Policy Planning of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His most recent publication is “Arms Racing, Military Build-Ups and Dispute Intensity: Evidence from the Greek-Turkish Rivalry, 1985-2020” (with I. Choulis and M. Mehrl) in Defence and Peace Economics, 2022.