GREECE TO THE UNITED STATES
Contemporary History. Foreign information manipulation and interference

Anastasios Panoutsopoulos (Fulbright Research Student, 2018–2019) is a scholar of international relations with a Ph.D. in Contemporary History from the University of Athens. He currently works on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) at the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels.

Dr. Panoutsopoulos was awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct doctoral research at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) at Columbia University. The award was decisive in enabling him to undertake multi-archival research on Greek foreign policy during the Cold War at a time when research funding in Greece was scarce. During his time in the United States, he worked at major repositories, including the U.S. National Archives (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, the United Nations Archives in New York, and several presidential libraries across the country.

Equally important, the Fulbright grant gave him the opportunity to engage with international security debates and leading scholars, helping shape his transition from academia to policy-oriented work.

In 2022, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, funded by the Paul Sarbanes ’54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service. He subsequently held a Taiwan Fellowship at National Taiwan University (NTU), before joining the European External Action Service in Brussels.

Drawing on his own experience, Dr. Panoutsopoulos emphasizes that the Fulbright Program offers young scholars a transformative opportunity to pursue research at leading institutions in the United States while becoming part of a global network that fosters meaningful, long-term academic and professional connections.