KARABELIAS GERASIMOS

Title/academic status:  Professor

Section:  Social Morphology

Academic field: Society and Institutions in Modern Greece and the Balkans (SEE)

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Phone: 210-9201794

Address: DESKoi Building/ 2^nd Floor/ Office no.7

Research interests:  Military Sociology, Leadership, Radicalization, Immigrants/Refugees, Social Movements

Member in scientific associations:

Courses:

Undergraduate:         

- Organizational Sociology and the Armed Forces

 - Immigrants and Minorities in SEE (seminar)

- Military-Social Movements and Radicalization in Modern

- Greece and the Balkans (SEE)

- Islam, Society and Radicalization in EU and SEE

- National Identity and Hellenic Diaspora

Postgraduate:

- Social development and Technological Transformations (with M. Keppas from 2008-09 to date)

- Unequal Development and Crisis in the Economy and Society of European Union (with M. Keppas from 2008-09 to date)

Brief CV

1995 Ph.D-School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) -UNIVERSITY OF LONDON-UK

1991 Master of Arts (MA)-Graduate School of Arts and Sciences- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY-USA

1988 Bachelor of Arts-(BA-Magna Cum Laude)- Dyson College of Arts and Sciences- PACE UNIVERSITY- Η.Π.Α.

Scholarships: PACE UNIVERSITY (1985-1988), NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (1988-90), AG LEVENTIS FOUNDATION (1992-94), BODOSAKIS FOUNDATION (1994-95) and ONASSIS FOUNDATION (2015)

Director of the Social Laboratory METHEXI

Selected publications 

Monographs

1. ASPECTS OF MILITARY SOCIOLOGY (Athens: Nomike Vivliotheke, 2015)
2. SOCIOLOGY AND THE ARMED FORCES: A Prejudicial Relationship (Athens: Nomike Vivliotheke, 2009)
3. “Military Class and Perpetual State Control in Turkey”, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (EUI), Working Paper No. 12, (2008)
4. TURKEY: Religion, Society and Politics (Athens: Ellenika Grammata, 2004)
5. THE ROLE OF THE ARMED FORCES IN THE POLITICAL LIFE OF MODERN GREECE AND TURKEY (Athens: Ellenika Grammata, 2001)

Articles in series, journals and volumes

1. European Migration Network Focused Study: “The Changing Influx of Asylum Seekers in 2014-2016: Member States Responses” (Athens: EPLO-Hellenic Ministry of Interior-European Commission, 2018) with V. Hatzopoulos, Th. Fouskas, P. Grigoriou, K. Kazanas, F. Mine, A. DeMaio and C. Novak

2. «Rape and the Armed Forces: “Natural” consequence or Guided criminal practice?» in E Lambropoulou, S Papamichael and P. Schizas (eds), Modern Trands in Anti-Criminal Policies (Athens: Papzisis, 2018)

3. “The Military Institution, Ataturk’s Principles and Turkey’s Sisyphean Quest for Democracy”, MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, Vol.45 No.1, (2009)
4. “Dictating the Upper Tide: The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in post-Ozal Turkey”, TURKISH STUDIES, Vol.9, No.3, (2008)
5. “From National Heroes to National Villains: Bandits and Pirates in the formation of Modern Greece,” in S. Cronin (ed), SUBALTERNS AND SOCIAL PROTEST: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa (London: Frank Cass, 2008)

Edited Books

1. AIR-FORCE JOURNAL (Editor, from 2018)
2. PROTECTION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (Athens: KEMEA, 2018)         
3. GRAECOINDICA-GRAECOSERICA, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol.8 (2015)
4. THE PASSAGE OF SHIPS THROUGH STRAITS (Athens: Institute for Defense Analysis (IAA), 2000)
5. ASPECTS OF MODERN TURKEY, (Athens: Gordios, 1998)

Conference/meeting announcements

1. HELLENIC SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (ΕΚΕ),    Athens,   29-30/3/2018

       “The Challenge of Integration and Military Organizations: A comparison of

        Sweden and Greece”

2. UNION OF ALIENS LAW & IMMIGRATION (EDAM),  Athens, 2-3/2/2018

        “Perceptions for Immigrants’ Integration: From a Humanistic point of view,

         to Myth-making and Prejudices”

3. ERGOMAS-14th Biennial Conference, ΣΣΕ - Αθήνα  26-30/06/2017

       Member of the Organizing Committee, Presiding on a Special Group on Military Leadership and presenter

       of the topic «Civil-Military relations in Turkey during the Erdogan era»

4. CARNEGIE MIDDLE EAST CENTER, Beirut  9-10/12/2015

       “Renegotiating Civil-Military Relations: Goals, Challenges, Modalities”

5. 21^st Conference of Center of European Studies (Columbia University),

       Washington DC-USA 14-14/03/2014

       «The Ressurection of the Far-Right in post-IMF Greece: The case of the Golden

       Dawn Party», με Th. Theofilopoulo