Dr Ioannis Mazis is Professor of Economic Geography and Geopolitics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and President of the faculty of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies. He specializes in geopolitical analysis and in particular, in Systemic Geopolitical Analysis and also, in International Security. He is director of studies in postgraduate degrees both at University of Athens and the European Public Law Organization (EPLO). Moreover, he is the director of the “Laboratory of Geo-cultural Analysis of Broader Middle East and Turkey”, at the University of Athens.