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Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Georgios Koukakis (ORCID ID: 0000- 0002-2545-5672 & Scopus ID: 60097426400) is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the Department of Mediterranean Studies: Archaeology, Linguistics, International Relations at the University of the Aegean, the title of his doctoral thesis being ‘Greece’s defence diplomacy and its contribution to strengthening national security. From the White Paper (2015) to 2024’. Furthermore, he is a graduate of the Postgraduate Programme ‘Governance, Development and Security in the Mediterranean’ (International Relations) at the same Department/University (2020), as well as the Supreme Joint War College (2023), the Hellenic Army War College (2020) and the Military Academy (2002) of Greece. He is a Senior Researcher and Secretary-General of the Centre for International Strategic Analyses (KEDISA), a Research Associate at the HERMES Institute of International Affairs, Security & Geoeconomy, and Country Correspondent for Greece at the academic journal European Defence & Security Law & Policy Quarterly (EDSeQ). He has participated as a presenter/speaker at numerous academic events, whilst articles and studies of him have been published in Greek and foreign academic journals and think tanks. In 2023, he published his first (co-authored) book entitled ‘National Security: Myths and Reality’ (Infognomon Publications), and in 2025 he published his monograph entitled ‘Armed Conflicts & National Security in the 21st Century’ (Infognomon Publications). Since October 2024, he has been the Academic Head of the ‘Security Studies in the Mediterranean’ educational programme series of the Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning Center of the University of the Aegean, under the scientific supervision of Dr. Sotiris Dalis. In 2024, he presented the innovative and unconventional (out-of-the-box) geopolitical theory of Hyperland, arguing that contemporary international actors (in contrast to the past, when they sought territorial conquest and/or control of the seas) seek, first and foremost, to dominate the unified –according to the theory’s creator– realm of space, information and cyberspace. In 2025, he confirmed the claims of his theory through a new academic article in which he provided additional evidence drawn from high-level strategic documents of the United Kingdom and France, whilst in 2026 an expanded version of his theory was included in the Scopus-indexed collective volume titled “Strengthening International Relations Through Transformative Theory and Practice” which was published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing and edited by Dr. Piotr Pietrzak (Sofia University, Bulgaria). Read all the analyses