Stefanos Kordosis

Dr Stefanos Kordosis holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and European Studies and a Master of Arts in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Panteion University, Athens. His Phd, which focuses on the relations between Byzantium and the Nomadic Empire of the Türks through Byzantine and Chinese sources, was completed in 2007 at the University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies. His post doctorate research is on East-West contacts across Eurasia and the role of nomadic nations, Black Sea history and relations with Byzantium, past and present aspects of the Silk Route and Great Power competition in Central Eurasia. In 2016-2017 he was awarded the Fulbright Greece fellowship for Greek Academics by which he visited the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Stefanos Kordosis’s research and teaching experience include the following: Tutor/Student Consultant at Hellenic Open University, Foreign Expert at Xibei Daxue (西北大学), Institute of Middle East Research (西北大学中东研究所), Post-Doc. Researcher at the University of Ioannina and at National Hellenic Research Foundation, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Ioannina and at the International Hellenic University.

Published monographs:

Stefanos Kordosis is the author of monographs and papers in Greek and English on the history of Central Eurasia, from the early Middle Ages up to modern times. He is the editor of the Greek translation of Сергей Павлович Карпов, История Трапезундской империи (History of the Empire of Trabzon, National Hellenic Research Foundation) and of The crusades. Justification and opposition in the sources, UCOPress, Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, 2016 (co-edited with G. Tsiaples). He has an excellent command of English and French and is able to communicate in and work with Russian and Turkish.

Monographs:

  • Κορδώσης, Σ (2025). Ευρασιατικά: Ρωσία (Μοσχοβία – Σιβηρία), Κεντρική και Ανατολική Ασία μέσα από τα κείμενα του Νικολάου Σπαθάρη (τέλη 17ου αιώνα) [Eurasiatica: Russia (Muscovy-Siberia), Central and East Asia through the Texts of Nikolaos Spatharis (End of 17th Century)]. Βιβλιοθήκη Ιστορικών Μελετών 310. Athens, 2025.
  • Διασχίζοντας Την Κεντρική Ασία : Οι περιηγήσεις των Νικολάου Σπαθάρη, Βασιλείου Βατάτζη, Παναγιώτη Ποταγού και το “Μεγάλο Παιχνίδι” των αυτοκρατορικών ανταγωνισμών στην Ανατολή (17ος-19ος Αι.) [Crossing Central Asia: The Travels of Nikolaos Spatharis, Vasileios Vatatzis and Panagiotis Potagos and the “Great Game” of Imperial Competitions in the East]. Ioannina, 2020.
  • Κορδώσης, Σ (2012). Oι Tούρκοι ανάμεσα στην Κίνα και το Βυζάντιο (552-659 μ.χ.) Ο ρόλος τους στην ευρασιατική πολιτική, διπλωματία και στρατηγική [The Turks between China and Byzantium: Their Role in politic, diplomacy and strategy in Eurasia]. Athens, 2012.

Under Publication:

  • Byzantium’s Influence on Central Asia and the Far East, Post doctoral dissertation at National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, 2016.

Indicative papers published in Journals or Conference proceedings:

  • Kordosis, S. (2025). “Greek Phanariot ‘Snapshots’ from the Sino-Russian Frontier: A Mapping of Nikolaos Spatharis’s Greek Texts on China and the Amur (Heilongjiang) Region in Early Qing Period.” IDIS Working Paper. Athens: Institute of International Relations, Panteion University, April 2025.
  • Kordosis, S. (2024). “The Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean (BSEM) Region and BRI: Macro-Historical Tendencies and Geopolitical Models of Analysis.” In The Geography of Greece: Managing Crises and Building Resilience, edited by Régis Darques, George Sidiropoulos, and Kostas Kalabokidis, 129–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.
  • Kordosis, S. (2023). “The Western Mongol World in the Early Eighteenth Century: Kalmyks and Oirats in Vasilis Vatatzēs’s Periēgētikon and His 1732 Map of Central Asia.” Crossroads 22, no. 1–2 (2023): 133–67.
  • Kordosis, S. (2022). “Tracks of Knowledge across Time and along the Black Sea Shores: The Case of Basil Vatatzes, ‘History of Nadir Shah.” In Academic Cultures Between Dependencies and Independencies in the Interwar Black Sea Region, edited by Milena Angelova and Sergii Glebov, 65–74. Blagoevgrad, 2022.
  • Kordosis S. (2018): “Underlying historical assumptions in the current geopolitical narration of the Chinese One Belt One Road: A critical assessment”, announcement in the 11th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society, 12-15 April 2018.
  • Kordosis S. (2018): The Tibetan Title Dru gu Gesar (Caesar of the Turks) in the Northern Branch of the Silk Route and the Role of the Khazars, announcement in International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 1-5 of July 2018.
  • Kordosis S. (2016): “The Depiction of a Khazar selling Caviar in the Monastery of Vlachernae, Arta: Some Remarks on the Evolution of the term “Khazar” in the Middle Ages”, Inscriptions in the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine History and History of Art (Ed. Christos Stavrakos), Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, 2016, pp. 111-135.
  • Kordosis S. (2015): “Connecting Tibet’s Gesar of gling with Menander, the Greek King of India”, proceedings of the International Symposium on History and Culture of Central Eurasia, Xilinhot, 20-24/09/2013, Inner Mongolia Province, China, [内陆欧亚历史文化国际学术研讨会论文集, 内蒙古出版集团/内蒙古人民出版社], 2015, pp. 153-160.
  • Κορδώσης Σ. (2013): «Η ισλαμική προϊστορία του Παντουρκισμού. Η εικόνα του κόσμου των νομαδικών εθνών και των Τούρκων στους μουσουλμάνους συγγραφείς (7ος-10ος αι.) και ο ριζοσπαστικός τουρκικός εθνικισμός.», ανακοίνωση στην ημερίδα «Η Τουρκική Εξωτερική Πολιτική στον 21ο αι. – Κριτική στο Δόγμα Νταβούτογλου», 29/10/2012 Σχολή Πολέμου Αεροπορίας, Αεροπορική Επιθεώρηση 98 (2013), σ. 84-97.
  • Kordosis S. (2012): “Arab advance along the southern part of the Silk Route , Gesar of Phrom (Ceasar of Rome) and Fu-lin (fulin/拂菻 = Rome/Byzantium) of Chinese sources”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Relations between Arabia and the Greek World (5th century BC-10th century AD), Riyadh, 2012/1433, pp. 303-310.
  • Κορδώσης Σ. (2011): «Ογούζοι και Τούρκοι. Κριτική στην παντουρκική θεώρηση της ιστορίας των τουρκικών εθνών μέσα από τις κινεζικές πηγές», Πρακτικά 31ου Πανελληίου Ιστορικού Συνεδρίου, 28-30 Μαΐου 2011, Θεσσαλονίκη, σελ. 49-64.
  • Kordosis S. (2009): “Arabs, Turks, Byzantines and Chinese in Central Asia during the first third of the 8th century, under the light of the Orkhon Turkic Inscriptions: War and Diplomacy”, East and West, Gorgias Press: New Jersey, 2009, pp. 17-26.