Background
Takis Michas was born on June 23, 1948, in Greece.
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States
Michas has done doctoral-level studies at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
Ul. Svetog Dominika 4, 20000, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Michas has done doctoral-level studies at the Dubrovnik International University.
Photo of Takis Michas
Photo of Takis Michas
Takis Michas was born on June 23, 1948, in Greece.
Michas has done doctoral-level studies at the University of California in Santa Cruz and the Dubrovnik International University.
Takis Michas has worked as a professional journalist since 1985. He is based in Athens, where he works for the Greek daily Eleftherotypia and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and other major publications.
Michas is the author of The Absence of Civil Society in Greece (1989) and Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia (2002).
Michas documents Greece's support of Slobodan Milosevic's regime following the dismantling of Yugoslavia in Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia. Greece was the only member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or the European Union to do so and had supported Serbia from the onset of war in Yugoslavia in 1991 until its occupation eight years later. Michas studies the relationship between Greece and Serbia and questions how the former could support Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic and condone Serbian aggression and war crimes.
Michas draws on interviews, media accounts, and his own recollections to demonstrate that Greek support of "the darkest side" of Serbian activities came from the intelligentsia, politicians, the Greek Orthodox Church, the media, and began with the Greek populace. Only Greece and Iraq certified the 2000 Serbian elections as being legitimate, and eighty members of the Greek parliament signed a bipartisan petition to the new Serb government, asking that Milosevic not be extradited to the Hague tribunal.