Dr Paschalis Pechlivanis is Assistant Professor in History of International Relations at Utrecht University and the managing coordinator of the Cold War Research Network (CWRN) in the Netherlands. He is the author of America and Romania in the Cold War: A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80 (A Romanian edition is published by Editura Litera) and The Vanity of Duty: Diplomacy, Letters and Dictatorship in the life of Ch. Xanthopoulos-Palamas. [in Greek]. His research interests include the (Global) Cold War, US Foreign Policy, post-1945 Balkan History and new diplomatic history approaches. He is currently working on a history of the Balkans viewed as a Cold War microcosm.

He studied Law (LLB) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2009), International Relations (MScEcon, Distinction) at Aberystwyth University (2012) and he obtained his PhD in History from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence in 2017. Paschalis has been Visiting Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Athens (NIA), Research Fellow at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB) Romania, Visiting Researcher at New York University (NYU) and he has previously taught at the University of Florence, Italy.