In June 1925, General Theodoros Pangalos imposed his dictatorship on Greece. During his 14-month rule, he set as one of his basic foreign policy goals the revision of the territorial settlement imposed on Greece and Turkey ...

The HISTORY of the Cyprus Question has attracted the attention of international scholarship, both from a local as well as an international point of view. The vast majority of these studies, however, focus on the period ...

The Lausanne Convention for the Exchange of Greek-Turkish Populations represents a hlming point in the modern history not only of Greece and Turkey, but also of Southeast Europe and the Near East as a whole. This compulsory ...

The Great Depression of the 1930s greatly affected political developments in Europe. Economic stagnation proved beneficial for far-right parties, which generally saw their influence increasing. Authoritarian regimes ...

In recent years Eurosceptic parties have gained significant ground in national and European Parliament elections in many EU countries. This trend is related to the effects of the ongoing economic crisis, which has drastically ...

The essay examines the way US-Greek relations evolved during the first critical year after the collapse of the seven-year military dictatorship in Greece. It is argued that the new prime minister of Greece, Konstantinos ...

Russia has always had a strong—and sometimes reciprocated—interest in Greece. From the birth of modern Greece during its 1821 revolution against Ottoman Turkey to its contemporary relations with Greece’s ruling leftist ...

Greek foreign policy during the Interwar period was heavily affected by the legacy of the Asia Minor Disaster. After the signing of the Peace Treaty of Lausanne (24 July 1923), Greece’s strategic aims focused on ...

“When we won 5.3% in the Municipality of Athens [in 2010], they said it was circumstantial. We told them that we are here to stay. And from Athens we will spread to all of Greece. When on May 6 [2012] we won 6.9 per ...

The article gives an outline of the failed strategy followed by the Greek government under Alexis Tsipras during the six-month negotiations with Greece’s creditors (January-July 2015). It is argued that Mr. Tsipras’ ...

In times of crisis the classical linkage between leadership and reform emerges with a renewed relevance. This issue has gained particular importance in the European Union due to its peculiar supranational consensus culture. ...

The signature of the Lausanne Peace Treaty ?n 24 July 1923 marked the beginning of a new period in the history of the Cyprus Question, at least from a legal point of view, as Turkey officially recognized the annexation of ...

In September 1922, after more than three years of war in Asia Minor, the Greek army was defeated by the Nationalist Turkish powers led by Mustafa Kemal. The atrocities from the part of the Turkish armed forces against the ...

The outbreak of the First World War brought about an important change in the status of Cyprus which was officially annexed by Great Britain. In the years that followed, successive Greek governments preferred not o pose ...

En los últimos meses, los acontecimientos políticos en Grecia han atraído la atención internacional. La victoria de la Coalición de la Izquierda Radical (más conocida por su acrónimo SYRIZA) en las elecciones del 25 de ...

The first two decades of the twentieth century was a difficult period for multinational empires in Europe and the Near East, but in the Ottoman case things were even worse. Following Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia ...

This article systematically examines the historical demography of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, Pontus and Eastern Thrace from the beginning of the 1910s until the aftermath of the signing of the Convention of Lausanne ...

Η καταστροφή του αρχείου του Γιάννη Ρίτσου κατά τη διάρκεια των Δεκεμ βριανών του 1944 έχει στερήσει από τoυς μελετητές του έργου και της γενικότερης δράσης του ποιητή τη δυνατότητα πρόσβασης σε μη δημοσιευμένα κείμενά ...

Πρίν από αρκετά χρόνια ο Ευάγγελος Αβέρωφ-Τοσίτσας είχε χαρακτηρίσει τη διαχείριση του κυπριακού ζητήματος από ελληνικής πλευράς ως "ιστορία χαμένων ευκαιριών". Ο τίτλος αυτός θα μπορούσε να χρησιμοποιηθεί εξίσου προκειμένου ...

Στην παρούσα εργασία σχετικά με τον Τύπο της Λάρισας και τις πολιτικές εξελίξεις στην Ελλάδα της περιόδου 1961-1967, δηλαδή της περιόδου από τις εκλογές της «βίας και νοθείας» στην κατάλυση της δημοκρατίας, γίνεται προσπάθεια ...