S. Victor Papacosma is Professor of History and Director of the Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies at Kent State University. He received his A.B. from Bowdoin College (1964) and his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) from Indiana University.

Papacosma has published extensively on modern Greek, Balkan, and NATO issues. Among his publications are The Military in Greek Politics: The 1909 Coup d'État (1977) (also in Greek translation, 1981) and Politics and Culture in Greece (1988). He has co-edited Europe's Neutral and Nonaligned States: Between NATO and the Warsaw Pact (1989), NATO after Forty Years (1990), NATO in the Post-Cold War Era: Does It Have a Future? (1995), NATO and the European Union: Confronting the Challenges of European Security and Enlargement (1999) and NATO after 50 Years (2001).

Dr. Papacosma co-edited, Limiting institutions? The Challenge of Eurasian Security Governance (Manchester University Press), published in September 2003.  Papacosma recently co-edited EU Enlargement and New Security Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean and contributed a chapter to that volume published in September 2004.