EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Welcome to 2018 Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Welcome to 2018 Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program

For the last seven years Emmanuel College has been making the Eastern Mediterranean the classroom for a select group of students. The part of the world, which has been the cultural, historical, economic crossroads for millennia continues to be in the 21st century. In the next four weeks we are going to immerse ourselves into the region, by making the historic village of Alikianos, in western Crete, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean, our home and base of studying the region.

By keeping this blog we will share our experience with each other and with a wider audience, as previous cohorts have. Sharing in the experience also helps better understand, as we reflect and hear from everyone else.

Enjoy the ride and invite others to come along in the next four weeks.

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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.