"Alexis Heraclides"

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Alexis Heraclides is a Greek university and public intellectual, until August 2019 Professor of International Relations and Analysis-Establishment Conflicts at the Department of Political Science and History of the Panteion University and since then Professor Emeritus at Panteion University.

Biographical data
He was born in Alexandria, Egypt (26-5-1952) and is the son of Ambassador Dimitris Heraclid and dentist Xena (Zenobia) Fikardou. He is a graduate of the Anargylio and Coryaleneion School of Spetses (AKS) and studied at the Panteion School (1970–1974) and the universities of London (University College) (1977–1978, M.Sc. in 1978) and Kent (1979–1983, Ph.D. in 1986). He has been an expert of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs on minority and human rights issues in international organisations (1983-1997) and has funded an associate expert of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the UN Human Rights Commission (1990-1992).

He has written ten books in English and fifteen in Greek. His scientific publications cover the internal and international aspects of ethnic and secessional conflicts, the self-determination of the peoples, intervention (as well as humanitarian intervention), nationalism, stereotypes in conflicts and foreign policy (with emphasis on the Greek case), the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (DSE) and the study of specific ethnic and transnational conflicts aimed at resolving them, such as the Middle East, Kosovo, the Greek-Turkish conflict, the Cyprus problem, the Macedonian, the South-Swedish problem, and others. Since 1992 he has written hundreds of articles in the daily press, especially in the newspapers Avgi, Eleftherotypia, The News, The Step, The Journal of Editors and the Age and in the periodical press, such as Citizen and Instead, on the resolution of the Cyprus issue, the resolution of the Greek-Turkish dispute (mainly the Aegean dispute), the improvement of relations between Athens and Ankara, the resolution of the Athens-Skopion dispute and the consolidation of a more modern and less ethnic-centric Greek foreign policy.

In 2004 he advocated YES in the referendum on the Annan Plan, arguing that the rejection of the plan by the Greek Cypriot side would lead, among other things, to official recognition of the TDBK by a sufficient number of states (originally by various Muslim states and later Western states), to insubordination of the Republic of Cyprus within the EU. and a return to tense relations between Greece and Turkey. More recently he argued that the Cyprus problem in the Anastasiades-Akinji talks (2015-2017) is mainly due to Nikos Anastasiades and (then Greek Foreign Minister) Nikos Kotzias.

Selected workspace
The Self-Determination of Minorities in International Politics (London: Frank Cass, 1991).
The Arab Republic