Articles & Commentary

  1. Ta Nea Review: "The American Presidents" (Hélène Harter)

    When presidents write History

    The foundation, evolution and mutations of the US political system through the portraits of the heads of the executive branch

  2. Ta Nea Review: "27 June 1906, 2 p.m." (Stratis Tsirkas)

    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)".

  3. Ta Nea Review: "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them" (Jason Stanley)

    The spider’s strategy

    The professor of Philosophy analyses the tools of the fascist phenomenon during its revival

  4. Ta Nea Review: "The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914" (Richard J. Evans)

    The century of Europe

    Industrialisation, democratisation, colonialism and inequalities coexist in the great historian's analysis of the 19th century

  5. The Books’ Journal Review: "The Two Betas" and "Uhlans in Larissa" (Athina Kakouri)

    The crown in the Balkan wars

  6. Ta Nea Review: "The Cold War: A New History" (John Lewis Gaddis)

    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

  7. Ta Nea Review: "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate" (Robert D. Kaplan)

    How geography changes the destiny of History

    The American analyst points out the ways in which the "map" influences political action

  8. Ta Nea Review: "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate" (Robert D. Kaplan)

    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.

  9. Ta Nea Review: "The Rash Adventurer: The Life of John Pendlebury" (Imogen Grundon)

    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

  10. Ta Nea Review: "Notre France. Dire et aimer ce que nous sommes" (Raphaël Glucksmann)

    The enemies of the open society

    The generation of European cosmopolitanism against irrationalism, populism and xenophobia