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Alexandra Nikopoulou holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of the Peloponnese. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in International and European Studies from the University of Piraeus and a Master’s degree in Mediterranean Studies from the University of the Peloponnese.
Since 2017, she has been affiliated with the Center for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS), where she now serves as Editor-in-Chief. At the same time, she is a project manager and researcher in the China Program of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) at Panteion University. She has also worked as an editor at the international think tank Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies.
Her research focuses on proxy wars, non-state actors, and regional power, with an emphasis on the Arabian Peninsula, particularly Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.

Annual Review of Greek Foreign Policy in the Middle East: 2025
March 7 2026
Beyond Non-State Actors: The States in the Middle East | Middle East Bulletin 46
June 29 2025
Beyond the State: Non-State Actors in the Middle East | Middle East Bulletin 45
January 14 2025
Turning Tides: Charting A New Path in Israel/Palestine | Middle East Bulletin 44
June 12 2024
US War on Iraq: 20 Years Later | Middle East Bulletin 43
July 2 2023
New Gulf Order? | Middle East Bulletin 42
July 3 2022
Syria 2022: a powder keg on the verge of explosion or back to business as usual?
February 4 2022
The Regional Great Game Revisited: Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan | Middle East Bulletin 41
January 11 2022
Crossing Borders in the Middle East | Middle East Bulletin 40
June 29 2021
The Arab uprisings: Break on through to the other side | Middle East Bulletin 39
January 13 2021
The Yemeni civil war: a year since the Riyadh Agreement
December 11 2020
Iran, interrupted | Middle East Bulletin 38
June 8 2020
Turkey: 100 years of dilemma | Middle East Bulletin 37
January 13 2020
Religious Pluralism in the Middle East: the Canary in the Coal Mine | Middle East Bulletin 36
June 18 2019
Qatar: 1.5 year after the blockade. A PR win or the rise of yet another arch enemy for Saudi Arabia and its allies?
March 4 2019
