Thomas Goumenos is a political scientist (MA University of Essex, PhD Panteion University). His primary research interests are nationalism, contentious politics and separatist movements. He has taught at Athens Metropolitan College; since 2015 he has been working as assistant to a Member of the Greek Parliament. His publications include “Nationalism”, in P. Joseph (ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, Sage Publications, 2017, “The Pyrrhic Victory of Unitary Statehood”, in E. Kavalski and M. Zolkos (eds) Defunct Federalisms, Ashgate publications, 2008.