Articles & Commentary
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The “mythology” of Kitsos Maltezos
The second edition on the murder of the student by the ELAS Student Group in 1944
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The Balkans, yesterday and today
A collective volume with 16 articles by Greek and foreign university academics on the period of the Cold War
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The China syndrome
Two Western researchers point out the aggressive initiatives of the vast country to expand its investments and, at the same time, its ideas in the West
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After Prespa, what?
Historically, no agreement was implemented because it was signed, but because it was enforced. All the more so in the Balkan region, where all signed agreements were foreshadowed or sealed by the force of arms. The Prespa Agreement does not close the Macedonian issue, but in essence opens a new phase of it.
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When presidents write History
The foundation, evolution and mutations of the US political system through the portraits of the heads of the executive branch
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How the Left received Cavafy
The reception of Cavafy by the Greek Left in the post-war period is characterised, as is well known, by coldness and ambivalence. This "relationship" is illuminated by Giannis Papatheodorou, assistant professor of Modern Greek Philology at the Department of Philology of the University of Ioannina, through an exemplary slim volume, dedicated to the "Memory of G. P. Savidis (1929-1995)".
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Ruling over lost time
The distinguished historian analyses how German leaders, from Frederick William to Hitler, shaped the concept of temporality
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The spider’s strategy
The professor of Philosophy analyses the tools of the fascist phenomenon during its revival
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Europe like a roller coaster
The latest study by the leading historian on European history from 1950 to the present day, which continues "To Hell and Back", already translated into Greek
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The century of Europe
Industrialisation, democratisation, colonialism and inequalities coexist in the great historian's analysis of the 19th century
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The man who would become France
The new exhaustive biography by Julian Jackson, professor of History at Queen Mary University of London
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The war that shaped our world
A parallel reading of two fascinating books on the Cold War, written by leading historians of Yale and Harvard universities
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How geography changes the destiny of History
The American analyst points out the ways in which the "map" influences political action
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People and Geography
In his latest book "The Revenge of Geography" (Melani, 2017), the journalist and geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan, a penetrating scholar of global geopolitical developments, brings back Geography as a means of analysing and interpreting geopolitical issues, giving it the importance it deserves alongside History, while reminding us of their inseparable bond.
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The unknown “Lawrence of Crete”
The fascinating story of the daring British spy who operated in Greece, became one with the mountain inhabitants of the large island and took part in the Battle of Crete
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The enemies of the open society
The generation of European cosmopolitanism against irrationalism, populism and xenophobia
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Putin against the West
The historian analyses the roots of "Putinism" and the use of fake news in the "war" against European liberalism