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Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos

Associate Dean for Employability, Engagement and Enterprise, and Senior Lecturer in Modern History

School of Policy & Global Affairs Department of International Politics

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Georgios (George) is historian of international relations with a focus nineteenth and twentieth century Britain and Europe. He is the author of The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870-1930 (Manchester University Press, 2025) and numerous articles/book chapters in the field of international and intellectual history. He studied history and politics in Greece (Panteion University) and holds a PhD in Modern History from Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining City he held research and teaching posts in Greece (University of the Peloponnese, Academy of Athens), Slovakia (Slovak Academy of Sciences), the USA (New York University) and the UK (Durham University, Edinburgh University, Anglia Ruskin University, King’s College London and the LSE). Georgios is a member of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and he serves in the executive committees of the Modern Greek Studies Association in the UK and the Greek Politics Specialist Group, UK . He has active affiliations with King's College London (Hellenic Studies) and the LSE (IDEAS and International History). He is the associate editor (social sciences) of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. He comments frequently on Greek politics in UK and international media outlets (BBC, LBC, TVP etc).

Current research interests:

- Modern British international thought

- Humanitarian, military and economic interventions in southeastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean since the 19th century

- The history of liberal internationalism, international order and global governance

- Territorial Partitions in the 20th century

- Nationalism and the Federal solution in Southeastern Europe

- The history of Modern Greece in a global frame

Qualifications

  • Fellowship HEA, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, December 2023
  • PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2015

Employment

  • Senior Lecturer in Modern History, City, University of London, United Kingdom, August 2025 - present
  • Lecturer in Modern History, City University of London, United Kingdom, January 2022 - July 2025

Memberships of committees

  • External Activities Officer, Greek Politics Specialist Group, Political Science Association, October 2021 - October 2023
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X, Journal "History", October 2021 - December 2022
  • Executive Committee Member, Society for Modern Greek Studies, January 2021 - December 2022

Award

  • Modern Greek Studies Association (2022). Innovation Award
    Innovation award for the Global 1922 project - a series of workshops on the centenary from the Greek-Turkish conflict in Asia Minor

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), French (can read, speak, understand spoken), German (can read, understand spoken) and Greek, Modern (1453-) (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review)

Expertise

Geographic Areas

  • Europe - Southeast
  • Europe - Western

Publications

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Books (4)

  • Giannakopoulos, G., Maiolo, J.A. and Van Steen, G. (2025). The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order: Greece, Turkey and the End of the First World War.
  • Briggs, V., Paul, J., Giannakopoulos, G., Jensen, M.L. and Karstadt, E. (2012). Governing Diversities Democracy, Diversity and Human Nature. Cambridge Scholars Pub. ISBN 9781443839853.
  • Giannakopoulos, G. The interpreters British internationalism and empire in southeastern Europe, 1870-1930. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Giannakopoulos, G. The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order. Giannakopoulos, G., Maiolo, J. and Van Steen, G. (Eds.), London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350420946.

Chapters (8)

  • Karagkounis, P. and Giannakopoulos, G. (2026). Forced Migrations, Humanitarianism, and Sex Trafficking. Across the Aegean (pp. 34-44). Routledge.
  • Karagkounis, P. and Giannakopoulos, G. (2026). Forced Migrations, Humanitarianism, and Sex Trafficking: The case of the Anatolian Greeks revisited, 1921–25. Across the Aegean A Century of Forced Migrations Between Greece and Turkey 1922 2022 (pp. 34-44).
  • Zarikos, I. and Giannakopoulos, G. (2025). SYRIZA, Podemos, Venceremos? Antiliberal Internationalism in the Twentieth Century (pp. 313-330). Routledge.
  • Aydin, C. and Giannakopoulos, G. (2025). The aftermath and legacy of the 1922 moment: A centennial retrospective. (pp. 251-265). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 9781350420946.
  • Giannakopoulos, G., Maiolo, J.A. and Steen, G.V. (2025). Introduction. (pp. 1-8). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 9781350420946.
  • In Bottelier, T.W. and Stöckmann, J. (Eds.), (2024). Instruments of international order. In Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526172570.
  • Giannakopoulos, G. and Lialiouti, Z. (2023). Legacies of neutrality. (pp. 48-60). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 9781350325524.
  • Giannakopoulos, G. (2016). Once upon a time in Asia minor: Arnold and Rosalind Toynbee's frames of the Greco-Turkish war in Anatolia (1919-1922). Camera Graeca Photographs Narratives Materialities (pp. 213-232).

Journal articles (11)

Professional activities

Editorial activity (2)

  • The Journal of Modern Greek Studies is the official publication of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA)., Associate Editor (social sciences), Journal of Modern Greek Studies, May 2024 - present.
  • H-Net network on Diplomatic History and International Affairs, Commissioning editor, H-Diplo.

Online articles (2)