EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Ready to Start the EC East Med Security Studies 5.0

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Ready to Start the EC East Med Security Studies 5.0

With a great deal of excitement we are readying to EC EMSS 5.0.

This site will serve as a vortex of information for the program and as a online board of exchanging ideas, thoughts and sentiments as we will be studying and traveling throughout June 2017. In the meantime you can start by reading the following articles and stories dealing with Greece and the countries in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Crete: A Walk Through History; What Democracies Can Learn From Greece's Failed Populist Experiment; Erdogan Is Dividing Turkey Against Itself; The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis: Risking Everything of a Chance at a Better Life

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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.