ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SEMINAR

INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The vision to create a space where students, researchers, professors, diplomats, journalists and practitioners of international relations could engage in a meaningful free exchange of ideas led to the founding of the Institute in 1989. As a forum of public exchange the Institute aspires to a meaningful synthesis of academic expertise with field exposure over a wide range of issues relating to the realm of international relations. A strong commitment to the value of developing a well informed global perspective underlies the diverse activities that the Institute has undertaken over the past fourteen years. The staff and the wide network of associates of the Institute share the belief that expert knowledge in our increasingly interconnected world, ought to serve the public good beyond narrow ideological and institutional confines at the local, the national and international level.

Since 1994, the I.I.R’s headquarters have been located in a renovated neoclassical building in Plaka, the old quarter of Athens. Present facilities include offices for resident faculty and visiting scholars, seminar and conference rooms, administrative offices and a library which provides an extensive collection of Books, Journals, Newspapers and Computer-based information services, including CD-ROM network, on-line search, OPAC and local databases.