Athanasios G. Platias

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Athanasios Platias is Professor Emeritus of Strategy at the University of Piraeus and President of the Council on International Relations. Athanasios Platias is coauthor of Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and their relevance today (London: Hurst/ Oxford University Press, 2026)

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The Iranian Crisis as a Geopolitical Phenomenon

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Waves of mass protest in Iran tend to erupt when least expected, though this should hardly surprise us. They typically represent the release of...

Venezuela and the Geopolitical Consequences of American Intervention

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The events unfolding in Venezuela do not merely constitute another episode of regional instability. They reflect a deeper transformation of the international system: the...

Ukraine: The War Nobody Knows How to End

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Wars Are Easy to Start—and harder to End Starting a war is simple; ending one is far harder. The problem of war termination has long...
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