معرفی
Markos Kounalakis, Ph.D., is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow at the Center on Media, Data, and Society at Central European University, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oregon-UNESCO Crossings Institute. An award-winning foreign affairs columnist, author, and scholar, his expertise spans International Relations, Media Diplomacy, and Global Security.
- Education
- Ph.D. in Political Science (International Relations), Central European University (summa cum laude)
- MSc in Journalism, Columbia University
- BSc in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
- International Journalism Fellow, Annenberg School, USC
- Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Europe
His research focuses on US Foreign Policy, Global Media Manipulation, and Authoritarian Influence. Notably, his 2018 book Spin Wars & Spy Games analyzed how Chinese and Russian media function as intelligence tools. He advocated for FARA compliance, influencing US policy.
Scientific contributions include analyses of disinformation, cyber intelligence, and media’s role in diplomacy, with recent works (2022) examining Putin’s Ukraine war alliances and global trade-offs in Freedom Isn’t Free. Affiliations include the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (2017), The Asia Foundation (2020), and Greece’s Council for International Relations (2021).
