Η Μαρίνα Ελευθεριάδου είναι διδάκτωρ Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Διεθνών Σχέσεων του Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου. Η διατριβή της, με τίτλο «Ανταρτοπόλεμος και Διασυνοριακές Βάσεις: οι Διεθνείς Σχέσεις των Ασύμμετρων Συγκρούσεων», εκπονήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος «Ηράκλειτος ΙΙ». Πραγματοποίησε τις προπτυχιακές της σπουδές στο Τμήμα Διεθνών και Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου, όπου επίσης έκανε το μεταπτυχιακό της με κατεύθυνση «Διεθνείς Σχέσεις και Στρατηγικές Σπουδές». Από το 2015, διδάσκει στο μεταπτυχιακό πρόγραμμα του Τμήματος Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Διεθνών Σχέσεων του Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου. Παράλληλα, είναι Ειδική Ερευνήτρια στο Κέντρο για το Θρησκευτικό Πλουραλισμό στη Μέση Ανατολή (CRPME) – μια πρωτοβουλία του ελληνικού ΥΠΕΞ. Κατά το ακαδημαϊκό έτος 2007-8 πραγματοποίησε έρευνα στο Ισραήλ (Bar-Ilan University) και την Παλαιστίνη. Επίσης, είναι μέλος της συντακτικής επιτροπής του επιστημονικού περιοδικού Small Wars & Insurgencies. Είναι αρχισυντάκτρια στο Κέντρο Μεσογειακών, Μεσανατολικών και Ισλαμικών Σπουδών (ΚΕΜΜΙΣ) από το 2005. Μιλάει αγγλικά, γαλλικά, ρωσικά και λίγα ισπανικά και μαθαίνει αραβικά.
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Marina Eleftheriadou holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Peloponnese, for which she was awarded the "Heracleitus II" grant. She completed her BSc in European and International Studies and her MSc in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the Panteion University of Athens, Greece. Since 2015, she teaches in the postgraduate program of the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese. She is, also, a research expert at the Centre for Religious Pluralism in the Middle East - CRPME – a Greek MFA initiative. During 2007-8, she conducted research in Israel (Bar-Ilan University) and Palestine. Moreover, she is member of the editorial board of Small Wars & Insurgencies journal. She is a senior editor at the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS) since 2005. She speaks Greek, English, French, Russian and some Spanish and she is learning Arabic.
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Under different circumstances Abu Musíab al-Suri could have been an established academic as he is characterized by strict methodological adherence, intellectual arrogance, inclination to self-citation, strained relations with colleagues and thirst for recognition. Nevertheless, the current international situation renders his candidacy for a university chair out of question. Hence, he rightfully occupies a position in the unofficial intelligencia of militant jihadi Islamism and he holds the undisputed chairmanship in the ëdepartment of strategics. However, more than that and besides his intellectualism, he is an ëadeptí heir of the tradition of field guerrilla warfare theoreticians. If unconventional warfare is doomed to irrelevance in the face of superior technology, organization and intelligence of the modern armies, Suri appears to give it a new breath.
We are not done with war yet. World's pacifists can sit aside and think of new ways to uproot the social or political causes of conflict or wait for the next turning point in history to proclaim the end of war and be once again disappointed. In the meantime, as war remains relevant, Richard Shultz and Andrea Dew attempt to shed some light on the "something new, something old" nature of contemporary warfare that seems to puzzle many state officials and academics, even more so since a glaring example of it (Iraq) is bogging down the world's superpower.
Osama is dead. Seemingly, there couldn’t be a worst time for alQaeda. The death of a leader in the midst of confusing and challenging developments is never good news for a militant “vanguard” organization like Al Qaeda, who together with the Salafi-jihadi current in general, found themselves up against the wall by the untimely winds of the Arab Spring. Nevertheless, by one of those twists of history, the death of Osama may turn into a very timely development for the survival of “Jihad
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