- Politics and Culture
- Civil society and social movements
- Conflict transformation and politics of reconciliation
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Leonidas Karakatsanis serves as Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, and holds an Honorary Fellowship at the British Institute at Ankara. His academic profile bridges political theory, peace and conflict studies, and regional expertise in Southeastern Europe. Dr. Karakatsanis completed his academic training with a PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (2011), an MA in Political Science and Sociology from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2004), and a BA in Political Science and History from Panteion University (2002). His research focuses on the politics of identity and reconciliation, peace and conflict transformation, nationalism, minority rights, civil society, and resistance politics. Theoretically, he engages with discourse theory, deconstruction, affect theory, and post-structuralist political theory. Geographically, his work centers on Turkey and its neighbors in the Caucasus and Eastern Mediterranean region. Dr. Karakatsanis is author of the influential monograph Turkish-Greek Relations: Rapprochement, Civil Society and the Politics of Friendship (Routledge, 2014), which critically examines Turkish-Greek reconciliation efforts from 1974-2013. He has also co-edited Bordered Places - Bounded Times: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Turkey (2017) and guest-edited the Journal of Contemporary European Studies special issue on Radicalization and transformation in South-Eastern Europe (2016). His scholarly work consistently explores how political discourse, emotions, and historical narratives shape identity formation and conflict resolution processes in the complex geopolitical landscape of Southeastern Europe. Notably, he has examined the emotional dimensions of Turkish-Greek relations, analyzing how excitement and boredom function as political affects in reconciliation processes. Dr. Karakatsanis teaches courses including Contemporary Turkey: History, Politics, International Relations , History and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (18th-21st C.) , History of Political Thought , and Political Science , reflecting his dual expertise in theoretical political science and deep regional knowledge.