Eleni G. Ekmektsioglou

Welcome!

I am a Ph.D. candidate with the School of International Service at American University and a research fellow at the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology.

I study the reasons behind the variation in military organizations' reactions to emerging technologies. My dissertation looks at the determinants behind military organizations' assessments and evaluations of emerging technologies. Given the potentially critical impact of new technologies on military effectiveness and systemic power balances, I argue that we need to understand deeper the determinants behind military organizations' reactions to emerging technologies including cases such as adaptation, rejection and/or countering.

Before I started my Ph.D., I worked for the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris on a research project that looked at transatlantic cooperation in the Asia Pacific region. I was, also, a Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu doing research on China's nuclear and naval strategy. I hold a Master's degree in International Conflicts from the War Studies department, King's College London and a BA from Panteion University in Athens.

You can reach me at eleni.ekmektsioglou@american.edu