EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: We are Back 10 years after the original trip and two years after Covid-19

Sunday, June 5, 2022

We are Back 10 years after the original trip and two years after Covid-19

What started as an idea a decade ago continues ten years later. Late in the summer of 2011, as the sorties were flying from Souda Crete to Libya and as Greece was in economic crisis, the idea of moving the classroom to the Eastern Mediterranean was born. In 2022 and as the covid pandemic is receding the challenges in the region have shifted, but the issues of geopolitics of energy and democracy and statecraft and diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean are as relevant as ever.....This year we will continue to use this blog page as a means to communicate the experience of the next four weeks to the wider audience, as we study, experience and travel through region.

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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.