Global Greek Influence- Giota Pimenidou

Can Greece trust America's nuclear shield? Could Europe deter Russia without Washington? And is NATO entering a new era of uncertainty?

On Global Greek Influence, host Dr. Panagiota Pimenidou speaks with Dr. Eleni Ekmektsioglou, Policy Fellow at BASIC and expert in nuclear deterrence, military innovation and emerging technologies.

A former postdoctoral fellow at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Dr. Ekemktsioglou has also worked with the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris and Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, researching China's nuclear and naval strategy.

From Russia's nuclear threats and Trump's NATO policies to France and Britain's nuclear ambitions, we explore the future of European security.

What does it mean for Greece, Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean? Could AI undermine nuclear deterrence? And is Europe ready to stand on its own?

🇬🇷 A timely geopolitical conversation for Greeks worldwide.

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Is Lebanon’s national identity crisis rooted in political dysfunction, or in a deeper struggle over its history, language, and civilisational heritage?

In Season 7 of Global Greek Influence, dedicated to geopolitics, Dr. Amine-Jules Iskandar, Director of the Institute of Lebanese Thought at Notre Dame University–Louaizé, Professor of Architecture at the Lebanese University, and President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon (⁠https://tur-levnon.org/⁠⁠), examines Lebanon’s identity crisis, Syriac-Maronite heritage, and struggle for sovereignty amid shifting regional power dynamics.

From Hezbollah and Syria to Turkey’s regional ambitions, the conversation explores Lebanon’s geopolitical future and the potential for closer strategic cooperation with Greece, Cyprus, and Israel.

Could Lebanon’s historical identity hold the key to its future in the Eastern Mediterranean?

Global Greek Influence | Season 7

Hosted by Dr. Panagiota Pimenidou

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Can Greece turn its Aegean islands, shipping strength and maritime technology into a strategic advantage against Turkish pressure?

Konstantinos Kolokotronis joins Dr. Panagiota Pimenidou to examine island-based missile defence, Panoptis offshore platforms, satellite surveillance, the 12-nautical-mile dispute and defence cooperation with Cyprus and Israel.

A Polity21 writer and merchant navy cadet with an MA in War Strategy and Intelligence, he explores how Greece could move from reacting to crises to shaping its position in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Israel, Greece and Cyprus face a changing Eastern Mediterranean shaped by Turkey, energy security, maritime power and regional instability.

Shay Gal examines why cooperation must evolve into a lasting security architecture and what that means for Europe, the U.S. and the Levant.

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What does the survival of Romeika reveal about Pontic Greek identity and the enduring presence of Hellenism in the Black Sea?

Dr. Panagiota Pimenidou speaks with anthropologist and ethnographer Dr. Nikos Michailidis about Romeika, the Pontic Greek dialect still spoken around Trabzon, Pontic music and the lyra, cultural memory, the Pontic Greek genocide, and the survival of Black Sea Hellenism.

Drawing on his ethnographic research into the Soundscapes of Trabzon, Michailidis examines how music and language can preserve identity across centuries, but can also become contested terrain in processes of assimilation, appropriation and historical erasure.

The conversation explores the Amasya trials and the targeting of Pontic Greek intellectual and cultural leadership; the case for sustained international recognition of the Pontic Greek genocide; Turkey, historical memory and contemporary revisionism; Greek-Turkish relations and Eastern Mediterranean security; and why Black Sea Hellenism deserves a more central place in the story of the Greek world.

Finally, they turn to the future of Romeika: Can this remarkable Greek dialect remain a living language, and could education reconnect new generations in Greece, the diaspora and the Black Sea with their linguistic and cultural heritage?

A conversation about Pontic Greeks, Romeika, Trabzon, the Pontic lyra, genocide recognition, cultural survival, historical memory and the future of Hellenism in the Black Sea.

Guest: Dr. Nikos Michailidis - Anthropologist, Ethnographer & Scholar of Pontic Greek Culture and the Black Sea
Host: Dr. Panagiota Pimenidou
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Does the Greek diaspora really have influence — or simply access?

Endy Zemenides, Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), joins Global Greek Influence for a wide-ranging conversation about power, advocacy and the changing geopolitical environment facing Greece, Cyprus and the global Hellenic community.

Zemenides challenges the diaspora to think beyond visibility and ask a harder question: are Greeks actually at the tables where decisions are made?

We discuss why traditional Greek advocacy has too often amounted to “talking to ourselves”; why the next generation of the diaspora must exercise influence outside the Greek community; and how Greece and Cyprus can build real strategic leverage in an increasingly uncertain international order.

The conversation also turns to Turkey and Erdoğan, NATO, the future of the rules-based order, European defence, and the Cyprus question — including a provocative challenge: 50 years after 1974, what should Cyprus aspire to become by 2074?

“If you’re not at the table, you’re not going to have influence.”

A conversation about the difference between having connections and having power — and what Greeks around the world can do with both.

Global Greek Influence explores how Greeks and the diaspora shape business, politics, culture and global affairs.

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The world isn’t just becoming more multipolar. The ideas driving global power are changing too.

Giota Pimenidou speaks with geopolitical strategist Dr Jake Sotiriadis about the return of ideology as a force in international affairs ... and why economics, military strength and conventional ideas of national interest no longer tell the whole story.

Sotiriadis spent 21 years as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, founded the Air Force’s Strategic Foresight capability and established the Center for Futures Intelligence at National Intelligence University. He is now a senior associate at CSIS and an adviser and instructor at the U.S. State Department’s National Foreign Affairs Training Center.

From US-China competition and Russia to strategic foresight and the erosion of the post-Cold War consensus, the conversation asks a more fundamental question: what happens when rival powers are no longer competing only over interests, but over competing visions of how the world should work?

#Geopolitics #JakeSotiriadis #Ideology #GlobalPower #StrategicForesight #MultipolarWorld #InternationalRelations #GreatPowerCompetition

Η παγκόσμια ισχύς αναδιανέμεται. Αλλά μαζί της αλλάζουν και οι ιδέες που καθορίζουν ποιος έχει δύναμη ... και πώς τη χρησιμοποιεί.

Η Γιώτα Πoιμενίδου συνομιλεί με τον Dr Jake Sotiriadis για την επιστροφή της ιδεολογίας στη διεθνή πολιτική, τον ανταγωνισμό ΗΠΑ-Κίνας, τη Ρωσία και την αποδόμηση των βεβαιοτήτων που κυριάρχησαν μετά το τέλος του Ψυχρού Πολέμου.

Ο Sotiriadis υπηρέτησε 21 χρόνια ως αξιωματικός πληροφοριών της U.S. Air Force, δημιούργησε τη λειτουργία Strategic Foresight της αμερικανικής Πολεμικής Αεροπορίας και ίδρυσε το Center for Futures Intelligence στο National Intelligence University. Σήμερα είναι senior associate στο CSIS και σύμβουλος και εκπαιδευτής του State Department.

Η νέα σύγκρουση ισχύος δεν αφορά μόνο εδάφη, οικονομίες και στρατούς. Αφορά και το ποια αντίληψη για τον κόσμο θα επικρατήσει.

#Γεωπολιτική #Ιδεολογία #ΠαγκόσμιαΙσχύς #ΔιεθνείςΣχέσεις #ΗΠΑ #Κίνα #Ρωσία #ΠολυπολικόςΚόσμος

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The new season of Global Greek Influence has come.

Follow for the new season : 7.

Through conversations with leading voices across geopolitics, energy, security, diplomacy, innovation and history, we explore one question:

What is shaping the future of the Eastern Mediterranean: Greece, Cyprus and Israel? What is shaping the future of the European Union & the US?

Watch or listen to the trailer and join us for a season of thoughtful conversations with experts from across the region and beyond.

Featuring in this trailer: Endy Zemenides, John Sitilides, Jake Sotiriadis & Shay Gal.

Can Greece turn geography into durable strategic power?

John Sitilides joins Global Greek Influence on the 3+1 “iron triangle” of Greece, Cyprus and Israel, Turkey’s drift inside NATO, Greece’s rise as an energy and connectivity hub, IMEC, and the global competition over flows, chokepoints and strategic leverage.

The map is moving. Greece is already on it differently.

Μπορεί η Ελλάδα να μετατρέψει τη γεωγραφική της θέση σε στρατηγική ισχύ διαρκείας;

Ο John Sitilides συζητά στο Global Greek Influence για το σχήμα 3+1 και το «σιδερένιο τρίγωνο» Ελλάδας, Κύπρου και Ισραήλ, τη στρατηγική απόκλιση της Τουρκίας εντός NATO, την Ελλάδα ως κόμβο ενέργειας και στρατηγικών διασυνδέσεων, το IMEC και τη σημασία των κρίσιμων εμπορικών, ενεργειακών και θαλάσσιων διαδρομών στον παγκόσμιο ανταγωνισμό ισχύος.

Ο γεωπολιτικός χάρτης αλλάζει. Και η θέση της Ελλάδας σε αυτόν αποκτά άλλο βάρος.

John Sitilides is a Washington-based geopolitical strategist and national security expert specializing in U.S. foreign policy, global risk, international security and geoeconomics. He advises and briefs government, business and investment audiences on geopolitical developments and their implications for markets and strategic decision-making.

Ο John Sitilides είναι γεωπολιτικός αναλυτής και ειδικός σε θέματα εθνικής ασφάλειας με έδρα την Ουάσιγκτον, με εξειδίκευση στην αμερικανική εξωτερική πολιτική, τον γεωπολιτικό κίνδυνο, τη διεθνή ασφάλεια και τη γεωοικονομία. Συμβουλεύει και ενημερώνει κυβερνητικούς, επιχειρηματικούς και επενδυτικούς φορείς για τις γεωπολιτικές εξελίξεις και τις επιπτώσεις τους στις αγορές και στη λήψη στρατηγικών αποφάσεων.

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AI isn’t the future—it’s the present. But who’s doing it right?

In this episode of Global Greek Influence- Giota Pimenidou sits down with Yanni Kalfoglou, a 30+ year AI strategist at Dell Technologies, to uncover the real truths behind AI adoption across industries—from banking and healthcare to public services and capital markets.

Discover:

• Why most AI strategies fail before they start

• The #1 misconception about AI leadership

• What happens when AI meets blockchain

• The biggest blind spots in enterprise AI planning

🎙️ Whether you’re a tech founder, policymaker, or just curious about how AI will reshape your life and work, this episode is your front-row seat to the future of intelligent tech.

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