Athanasios Manis is a research student at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds a BSc in International Relations and Organisations from University of the Aegean and an MA in Turkish studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. His research interests include European Union’s external policies, EU candidate countries’ foreign policy, especially the case of Turkey and the Israeli-Arab relations. He participates in the research network of the Balkan International Affairs research programme of the LSE. He speaks Greek (native), English (advanced fluency), Turkish (advanced fluency), German (intermediate fluency) and Hebrew (basic fluency).