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Prof. Demetrius Floudas

Visiting Scholar in Law, Downing College at University of Cambridge and 3 other companies
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Demetrius A. Floudas is the Senior Adviser to the Cambridge Existential Risks Initiative. and Convenor of the Centre for Research in Contemporary Problems. He is also Aff. Professor at the Law Faculty of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad; and Fellow of the Hellenic Institute of Foreign and International Law. He is an international lawyer and regulatory adviser who has lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine for a decade, advising the Ministry of Economic Development & Trade and the Federal Antimonopoly Service. He served as Team Leader for the Russian Accession to the World Trade Organisation and was for several years Visiting Professor at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO). In a series of lectures at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, he has for many years predicted that an armed conflict in Ukraine was becoming increasingly plausible

In addition, D. Floudas has provided commentary on matters of Foreign Affairs & International Relations to a number of international think-tanks, with his views frequently appearing in the media worldwide (BBC TV & Radio, Voice of America, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Politico and others) including in Ukraine and Russia (Vedomosti, Hromadske TV, RIA-Novosti, Russia Today, RBK TV et alia)

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  • "Beyond the second year anniversary of the invasion, by which time Russia has accrued a decisive military advantage and its public is much more determined to see this through than previously, one can still hear legions of analysts and policy-makers echoing the same talmud of political orthodoxy: ‘as long as it takes’, ‘Putin must be defeated’, ‘Ukraine in NATO now’ or even advocating immediate direct military involvement by the West to recapture lost territories. Treating Russia as a merely larger version of Iraq or Venezuela is not exactly an appropriate— or safe— way forward. Such insistence on similarly preposterous and unattainable approaches is beyond counterproductive and precarious; it is Little Red Riding Hood’s geopolitics."

    'Is Russia Coming for the Rest of Europe?' : Interview with Demetrius Floudas, April 2024
    https://diobar.substack.com/p/is-russia-coming-for-the-rest-of?

    Reader reaction to the above interview:
    "I have read this fascinating article, for which many thanks, with avid interest. It is staggeringly erudite, hugely informative, impressively articulate, and a massively controversial eye-opener in marked contrast to any other publicised viewpoint. It tells you volumes not only about the situation but also about the speaker himself, who has one of the most brilliant minds I have ever personally come across. Wow!"

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