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The Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from Egypt
When: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 | 14:30 – 15:30 (activity hour)
Where: Arts Center Auditorium
Organized by
The Institute of Global Affairs of The American College of Greece
IGA GUEST TALK SERIES 2025-2026
By Tamer Mohamed Samy Abdellatif, Brigadier General (Ret.), Dr.
Former Brigadier General in the Egyptian armed forces.
PhD. in Political Sciences from Alexandria University.
Lecturer of national & global security, conflict resolution & management in the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport. And Suez National University.
About the lecture
The Eastern Mediterranean has shifted from a peripheral sea to a central arena of global competition. This lecture examines how energy discoveries, maritime boundary disputes, strategic chokepoints, and new technological corridors have turned the region into a critical link between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Drawing on Egypt’s perspective as both a regional power and an energy hub, the talk highlights Cairo’s strategy of stability through cooperation, its leadership in the East Mediterranean Gas Forum, and its growing role as an exporter of electricity and digital connectivity to Europe.
Special attention is given to the Egypt–Greece strategic partnership, from joint naval and air exercises to landmark infrastructure such as the EuroAfrica Interconnector and GREGY power cable. These projects exemplify “infrastructure diplomacy,” complementing hard security with energy and digital integration. The lecture also addresses regional rivalries, including Turkey’s maritime revisionism, competing energy routes, and proxy conflicts, alongside the challenge of sustaining cooperation amid shifting great-power and European energy dynamics.
It argues that while risks of confrontation persist, frameworks like the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) and partnerships such as that of Egypt and Greece offer a path to transform the Eastern Mediterranean from a contested frontier into a connected and strategically integrated space.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
Event Details
When:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 19:00
Where:
ACG Events Hall
Co-organized by:
Papadopoulos Publishing and the
Institute of Global Affairs, The American College of Greece
About the event
Papadopoulos Publishing and the ACG Institute of Global Affairs invite you to a discussion on the latest developments in global politics and economics on the occasion of the new book by Vasilis Kopsachilis, Geo-entrepreneurs.
The book serves as an introduction—both conceptual and historical—to geo-entrepreneurship, taking into account the current landscape of overlapping crises and future challenges. Its aim is to offer an alternative perspective, one that complements geopolitics and geo-economics, and to initiate a conversation on a new foundation.
The event is free and open to the public and the discussion will be conducted in Greek.
Parking is provided, upon availability.
About the Panelists
Panagiotis Palaios
Assistant Professor of Economics | Economics Program Coordinator
Dept. of Accounting, Economics and Finance
School of Business and Economics
Deree – The American College of Greece
Bio available here
Constantinos Filis
Director, Institute of Global Affairs, The American College of Greece
Associate Professor of International Relations and European Affairs,
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Deree – The American College of Greece
Bio available here
Vassilis Kopsachilis
Political advisor and Specialist on corporate diplomacy
Vassilis Kopsachilis is political advisor and specialist on corporate diplomacy. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, Vassilis Kopsachilis worked on EU development programs across the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since the early 2000s, he has actively monitored the MENA region on behalf of mining, energy and technology companies. Academically, in 2013 he coined the notion of Geo-entrepreneurship as an additional level of research, along with geopolitics and geo-economics, in geostrategic analysis. He is a founding member of the Berizon Society, TEDx speaker and frequent media guest on current affairs.