Konstantinos Papadimitriou is a Lieutenant General (ret) and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Business Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds two Master’s Degrees, in International Relations and Strategic Studies (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) and in International Policy and Diplomacy (Staffordshire University). Upon his graduation from the Hellenic Army Military Academy, he served in various assignments in the Hellenic Army for 37 years in Greece and abroad (25 years in Special Forces). He is a graduate of the Hellenic National Defense College, Army War College, and Amphibious Warfare School (Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA, USA). His research interest focuses on geopolitical and economic issues with current emphasis on the historical and structured analogies used in foresight in the context of the, renewed, “Eastern Question”.