# Maria Aftimos

> Maria Aftimos is an emerging scholar in the Strategic Analysis Network.

Source: https://ras-nsa.ca/en/expert/maria-aftimos/
Modified: 2022-01-13

Maria Aftimos joined the DESS in International Studies at the University of Montreal after completing her master's degree in International Relations, Security and Defence. Her research focuses on the new "Great Game" in the Middle East since 2011 from the perspective of the Land-Sea duality. She seeks to analyze the dynamics behind international and regional power rivalries in the Middle East. Maria Aftimos is also interested in the discovery of offshore oil fields in the Eastern Mediterranean and its implications both regionally and internationally.