Ioannis Armakolas (PhD, Cantab) is a Scientific Advisor for the Western Balkans at the Crossroads project. He holds a position of Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics of Southeast Europe at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki) and ‘Stavros Costopoulos’ Senior Research Fellow and Head of the South-East European Programme at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal ‘Southeast European and Black Sea Studies’, published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom) & ELIAMEP, and of the ‘Political Trends & Dynamics in Southeast Europe’, the magazine of the regional office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES Dialogue South-East Europe, Sarajevo).