Institute of International Studies of the UWr invites you to participate in the online lecture of Professor Marilena Koppa, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of European, International and Area Studies, Panteion University in Athens.
The topic of the lecture will be The origins and the future of the Common Security and Defense Policy. It will take place online on 30th January 2023, between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the MS Teams platform. Join the MS Teams group and click the link to register for the event.
Professor Marilena Koppa is the author of numerous articles concerning minority issues, democratization, nationalization and European politics with a predominance of the comparative approach.
Professor Koppa graduated from Law School at Athens University. Her PhD in Comparative Politics was completed at Paris-X Nanterre University (1991). For years she worked as the Special Advisor on matters concerning the integration and extension of Europe to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. She served as a European Parliament Member in the years 2007-2014. She also coordinated the S&D group in Subcommittee on Security and Defense and was the Vice-Chairperson of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. She was a Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a Substitute Member of the Committee on International Trade and the Subcommittee on Human Rights.
She published three books regarding South-Eastern Europe: A Fragile Democracy: The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia between the past and the future (Papazisis, Athens, 1994), The minorities in the post-communist Balkans (Nea Synora-Livanis, Athens, 1997), The creation of states in the Balkans (Nea Synora-Livanis, Athens, 1997). Her last book concerned the common policy of security and defence of EU: CSDP: the history, the institutions, the strategies (Patakis, Athens, 2017).
A full biography of Professor Marilena Koppa
Translated by Monika Łobodziec (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
