Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos
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Georgios (George) Giannakopoulos is a historian of modern Europe and international politics. His research explores empire, intervention and international order, with a particular focus on Britain, Greece and Southeastern Europe. He is particularly interested in sovereignty, political ideas and the ways international power has shaped states and societies from the nineteenth century to the present.
He is the author of The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870–1930 (Manchester University Press, 2025) and co-editor of The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order (Bloomsbury, 2025).
His is currently writing a history of International Interventions in Modern Greek for Princeton University Press
Other projects include:
- Consular Worlds — a British Academy-funded project on British consular networks in nineteenth-century Greece.
- Partition and displacement — research on territorial partition, population displacement and the remaking of the post-Ottoman world.
- Humanitarian intervention as an instrument for war and peace— a short history of humanitarian intervention for Cambridge University Press.
- Small states and international order — research on Greece, liberal internationalism and geopolitical change.
Georgios welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students working on modern European and international history, particularly Britain, Greece and Southeastern Europe; empire and internationalism; intervention and international order; nationalism and political ideas; humanitarianism; and partition and displacement.
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
- Executive Committee Member, Society for Modern Greek Studies, January 2021 - December 2022
Award
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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
Publications by category
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 (12)
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2026). Yanni Kotsonis. The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism. The American Historical Review, 131(3), pp. 1298-1299. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhag124
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2026). A ‘Corpus Vile’ of International Order: Protection, Coercion, and the British Blockade of Greece, 1850. The International History Review pp. 1-15. doi:10.1080/07075332.2026.2628963
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2025). Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940. The English Historical Review, 140(606), pp. 1079-1108. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaf145
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2021). A world safe for empires? A. J. Toynbee and the internationalization of self-determination in the East (1912–1922). Global Intellectual History, 6(4), pp. 484-505. doi:10.1080/23801883.2018.1527185
- Gazi, E., Giannakopoulos, G. and Papari, K. (2021). Rethinking Hellenism: Greek Intellectuals Between Nation and Empire, 1890–1930. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 39(1), pp. 163-189. doi:10.1353/mgs.2021.0008
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2020). Re-staging the ‘Eastern Question’: Arthur J. Evans and the search for the origins of European civilization in the Balkans. History of European Ideas, 46(5), pp. 601-613. doi:10.1080/01916599.2020.1746081
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2020). An Age of Ages: Nation, Empires and their Discontents. Contemporary European History, 29(2), pp. 232-242. doi:10.1017/s0960777320000016
- GIANNAKOPOULOS, G. (2018). “MAKE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN”: ANGLO-AMERICAN THOUGHT AND WORLD POLITICS IN THE AGE OF EMPIRES. Modern Intellectual History, 15(2), pp. 593-606. doi:10.1017/s1479244316000378
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2018). Internationalism between national questions and imperial considerations: Henry Noel Brailsford and the transformations of Central and Eastern Europe (1898–1919). History of European Ideas, 44(2), pp. 244-259. doi:10.1080/01916599.2017.1381858
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2016). Depicting the pain of others: Photographic representations of refugees in the Aegean Shores. Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2(1), pp. 103-113. doi:10.1386/jgmc.2.1.103_1
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2016). A British International Humanitarianism? Humanitarian Interventions in Eastern Europe (1875–1906). Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 34(2), pp. 299-320. doi:10.1353/mgs.2016.0028
- Quijano, F. and Giannakopoulos, G. (2013). History and politics in perspective: Interview with Quentin Skinner. Signos Filosoficos, 15(29), pp. 167-191
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)
- Five things you should know about the Ottoman Empire. (2022). the Conversation
- Greece’s Fight for Independence Was Part of a Global Revolutionary Movement. (2022). Jacobin