Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, Assistant Director of Presidential Studies, Miller Center, University of Virginia.

Yannis A. Stivachtis is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at Virginia Tech. He has published widely on international relations and security. His research interests include the global order and contemporary sub-global international societies (Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East), and the application of the comprehensive security approach to regional security in the Middle East. He currently serves as Director of the Center for European & Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA) of the Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER), editor of the Critical European Studies book series published by Routledge, and co-editor of the Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies. His publications include Conflict and Diplomacy in the Middle East (editor, Bristol: E-International Relations, 2018); The Road to EU Membership: The Economic Transformation of Turkey (co-editor; Brussels: Brussels University Press, 2011); Turkey-European Union Relations: Dilemmas, Opportunities and Constraints (co-editor, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008); European Union’s Mediterranean Enlargement (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002); Co-operative Security and Non-Offensive Defense in the Zone of War (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001); and Non-Offensive Defense in the Middle East (co-author, New York: United Nations Publications, 1998).