Vasileios Syros

Vasileios Syros () is a Greek-Finnish historian of political thought, holder of the Chair of Excellence in Indo-Hellenic Strategic Thought & Statecraft at the Centre for Military History and Conflict Studies at the United Service Institution of India (USI), India's oldest and foremost tri-service think tank (est. 1870) for research into national security and military affairs. He is also Director of the Early Modern Greek Culture Program at The Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, and Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. His main research and teaching interests lie in the comparative examination of the medieval and early modern Christian, Islamic, and Jewish political traditions. A second cluster of his research looks at intercultural contacts between pre-modern Europe and non-Western societies and polities, especially the Byzantine, Mughal, and Ottoman Empires. Syros also works on the comparative study of diverse models of leadership and cultural diplomacy. Provided by Wikipedia