Zoie Petrakis is studying Classics, International Relations, and Spanish at the University of Southern California and is currently in her second year. She is half Greek and half American and has spent time living and going to school in both countries. She is involved in Model United Nations, the International Relations Undergraduate Association, and the Minoan Gournia archaeological project. Within the realm of international affairs, her areas of interest include Migration, Citizenship, Developing Countries, International Law, and Peacekeeping Operations, especially in the regions of Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
This past week, the Turkish Chief of the General Staff sailed along the coast of a set of Aegean islands that have been the center of contested claims between Turkey and Greece. The following day, the Greek government announced that ...
“Its wall was twenty-five feet in breadth and a hundred in height, and the whole circuit of the wall was two parasangs. It was built of clay bricks, and rested upon a stone foundation twenty feet high” —Xenophon, Anabasis. Although ...