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:
- Know major events and developments in Greece from the Greek Revolution to the Balkan Wars to the National Schism and beyond.
- Understand the fate of Greece in both World Wars, the causes and consequences of the Civil War and post-war politics to the present.
- Be aware of the role of the Great Powers in Greek politics.
- Interpret the role played by the different social strata.
- Become familiar with significant trends and figures of modern Greek culture.
- 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.