Dr Andreas Karyos is an Associate Lecturer in Security and Diplomacy Studies at UCLan Cyprus. He holds a BA in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens (Greece), an MA in Twentieth Century European History from Queen Mary, University of London (United Kingdom) together with a PhD in Cypriot History from the School of Advanced Study, University of London. His doctoral thesis focuses on the military aspect of the Cyprus Question in the late 1950s, with a special interest in the formation, operation and development of the armed Enosis movement of EOKA against the forces of the British colonial regime in Cyprus. During his doctoral studies, he has been awarded with the Leventis Scholarship. He has presented or published various aspects of his research in Cyprus, Greece and the United Kingdom. His research interests include the Cyprus Question since 1878, the EOKA Struggle and the British counter-insurgency response, the Greek irredentism (19th-20th centuries), the British rule in the South-Eastern Mediterranean (19th-20th centuries), the European decolonisation (20th century) and the Military History (20th century). He has been teaching faculty in various private or state academic institutions since 2009, providing education to undergraduate students but also to Cypriot policemen. In 2015 he joined the teaching team of the School of Law at UCLan Cyprus to deliver instruction for the MA in Security and Diplomacy Studies. He has been member of organising committees of a number of conferences and lecture series. He is currently coordinating (with Dr Klearchos Kyriakides) the series of public lectures “The Rule of Law in Cyprus and the Lessons of History: Linking the Past with Today and Tomorrow” aiming at the promotion of inter-disciplinary research and fostering a culture of respect for the rule of law and related democratic principles. Finally, he offers his expertise in the period of the EOKA Struggle as Curator at the National Struggle Museum (Nicosia).