EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Panama, Suez, Spain, Brexit, Geopolitics and Mediterranean Security

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Panama, Suez, Spain, Brexit, Geopolitics and Mediterranean Security

As we are preparing for the second week of the 2016 EC Eastern Mediterranean Program, events from Panama to Britain and from Spain to Suez are mirroring the content of our courses. During the first week we studied, and argued about, the region and the world and explored and visited our immediate surroundings.

Angie's map helped all of us understand the Mediterranean as we prepared for our map quiz on Tuesday. While the Team Blue strategize for the 2016 Get to Know Alikianos Treasure Hunt.

Team Gold was working on their tactics as Collin was sharing his first day scouting.

Laryssa and Tess are not convinced by Collin's arguments as he has been a steady voice of debate as the issues of geopolitics and liberalism and democracy. Laryssa and Tess have won the Dolphin Award for the week as the Most Improved Swimmers!

Navy, Navy, Navy!!! from the Minoans to the United States the secret to geopolitical advantage and power is a strong navy and trade. Earlier in the day we saw the US aircraft carrier USS Truman in Souda Bay, site of a Minoan naval installation 3500 years ago.

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EC Eastern Security Studies Program

In the summer of 2011, as the "Arab Spring" was unfolding and the "Eurozone Crisis" was entering its second year, the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program was established in Crete, as a way to make the location the classroom. Beyond the grand theoretical, historical and political understanding that can be achieved through reading and classroom discussion and exchange, a more immediate, intimate and truer appreciation of the complexities can only achieved by experiencing the cultures, languages of personal interaction.

Since 2012 students have been able to combine an intensive curricular study, with the experience of immersion and living in a local setting. The geopolitical and geoeconomic forces that have acted in the region for centuries, can be identified in the classroom, but they can only be understood by being there. This year's EC EMSS Program will add a fourth week of study, experience and exploration and will also travel to the islands of Rhodes, and Cyprus. In Rhodes we will be partnering with the Prefecture of Southern Aegean and the Aegean University, while in Cyprus we will be hosted by the University of Nicosia.