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Department of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies

Course 70253, Survey of Modern Greek Geopolitics and History, 5 ECTS, 5th semester.

Tutor: I. Iliopoulos, Assistant Professor

I_iliopoulos[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

Aims and Objectives

As a result of taking this course, the student should be able to:

  1. Know major events and developments in Greece from the Greek Revolution to the Balkan Wars to the National Schism and beyond.
  2. Understand the fate of Greece in both World Wars, the causes and consequences of the Civil War and post-war politics to the present.
    1. Be aware of the role of the Great Powers in Greek politics.
    2. Interpret the role played by the different social strata.
    3. Become familiar with significant trends and figures of modern Greek culture.
    4. Appraise in historical perspective Greece’s efforts toward independence and sovereignty.

 

Course Outline

-       Introduction to the Course

-       Historical and geopolitical background: Modern Greece 1821–1912

-       The Balkan Wars

-       Greece and the Great War; the National Schism

-       The Asia Minor Campaign – and Catastrophe

-       Greece during the Inter-War Period 

-       Greece during the Second World War

-       The Communist coup and the Civil War

-       Truman-Doctrine and Marshall-Plan

-       The Post-War Era: Reconstruction

-       The Post-War Era: Political developments, Crisis, Military Rule

-       Restoration of Parliamentary Democracy – and beyond

-       The Cyprus Question.

 

Course Assessment

Written Paper (3,000 – 4,000 words)

 

Bibliography

Basic Reading:

Instructor’s Course Notes / Power Point Presentations

 

Recommended Reading:

-          Clogg, Richard, A Short History of Modern Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

-          Clogg, Richard (ed.), Greece in the 1980s, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1983.

-          Close, David H., The Origins of the Greek Civil War, London; New York: Longman, 1995.

-          Coufoudakis, Van, “Cyprus – July 1974; or Acheson’s Failure, Kissinger’s Success”, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 1 (4), 1974, pp. 35-42.

-          Crawshaw, Nancy, The Cyprus Revolt: An Account of the Struggle for Union with Greece, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978.

-          Driault, Édouard and Lhéritier, Michel, Histoire diplomatique de la Grèce de 1821 à nos jours, vol. IV, Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1926.

-          Driault, É. and Lhéritier, M., Histoire diplomatique de la Grèce de 1821 à nos jours, vol. V, Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1926.

-          Gallant, Thomas W., Modern Greece. London: Arnold, 2001.

-          Hibben, Paxton, Constantine I and the Greek People, New York: Century Company, 1920.

-          Hitchens, Christopher, Cyprus, London-Melnourne-New York: Quortet, 1984.                         

-          Horton, George, The Blight of Asia, An Account of the Systematic Extermination of Christian Populations by Mohammedans and of the Culpability of Certain Great Powers; with a True Story of the Burning of Smyrna, Foreword by James W. Gerard, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926.                        

-          Iatrides, John O., Greece in the 1940s: A Nation in Crisis, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1981.  

-          Kalyvas, Stathis N., “Red Terror: Leftist Violence during the Occupation,” in Mazower, Mark M., After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

-          Koliopoulos, John S. and Veremis, Thanos M., Greece: The Modern Sequel, From 1831 to the Present. London: Hurst & Company, 2002.   

-          Kuneralp, Sinan (ed.), Ottoman Diplomatic Documents on the Origins of World War One. The Final Stage of the Cretan Question, 1899-1913, Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2009.

-          Macrakis, Lilly A., “Venizelos’ Early Life and Political Career in Crete” in Kitromilidis, Paschalis M. (ed.), Eleftherios Venizelos. The Trials of Statemanship, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.    

-          Memoirs of H.R.H. Prince Christopher of Greece, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1938.   

-          Papandreou, Andreas, Democracy at Gunpoint. The Greek Front, London: Pelican Books, 1973.                       

-          Smith, Michael Llewellyn (Sir), Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922, London: Hurst & Co., 1998.           

-          Thomson, Basil (Sir, K.C.B., Director of Intelligence 1919-1921), The Allied Secret Service in Greece, Second Impression, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1931.    

-          Vatikiotis, Panayiotis J., Popular Autocracy in Greece, 1936-1941: A Political Biography of General Ioannis Metaxas, London: Frank Cass, 1998.       

-          Vryonis, Speros Jr., The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6 – 7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul, New York: Greekworks, 2005.     

-          Vryonis, S. Jr. (ed.), Greece on the Road to Democracy: From the Junta to PASOK 1974-1986, New Rochelle, 1991.       

-          Woodhouse, Christopher Montague, Apple of Discord: A survey of recent Greek politics in their international setting, Second Edition, London: Hutchinson, 1948.  

-          Woodhouse, Ch. M., The Rise and Fall of the Greek Colonels, New York: Granada, 1985.