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Byzantium after the Nation

The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

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Byzantium after the Nation

The Problem of Continuity in Balkan Historiographies

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, and Russian intellectuals with reference to the ambiguous inheritance of Byzantium. The title alludes to the seminal work of Nicolae Iorga in the 1930s, Byzantium after Byzantium, that argued for the continuity between the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires. The idea of the continuity of empires became a kind of touchstone for national historiographies. Rival Balkan nationalisms engaged in a "war of interpretation" as to the nature of Byzantium, assuming different positions of adoption or rejection of its imperial model and leading to various schemes of continuity in each national historiographic canon. Stamatopoulos discusses what Byzantium represented for nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars and how their perceptions related to their treatment of the imperial model: whether a different perception of the medieval Byzantine period prevailed in the Greek national center as opposed to Constantinople; how nineteenth-century Balkan nationalists and Russian scholars used Byzantium to invent their own medieval period (and, by extension, their own antiquity); and finally, whether there exist continuities or discontinuities in these modes of making ideological use of the past.

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Central European University Press

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9633863082

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9789633863084

The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)

Balkan History Reconsidered

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

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The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)

Balkan History Reconsidered

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

This volume is critical to the two dominant historiographical paradigms on the topic of Balkan revolutions. This new treatment does not adopt a description of the national movements resulting from the dissolution of the territories of the “Sick man of Europe” from the Great European Powers (Eastern Question Paradigm). Nor is it based on the autonomous process of repetitive awakenings of sleeping Nations, drugged from the Oriental influence of their ruler (Balkan Nationalism Paradigm). Instead, the author attempts a classification as well as a new description of the Balkan national movements as a continuous feedback with the internal sociopolitical schisms in Western Europe, as expressed in the great revolutionary crises from the end of the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.

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V&R unipress GmbH

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3737008302

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9783737008303

The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)

Balkan History Reconsidered

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

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Balkan History Reconsidered

By: Dimitris Stamatopoulos

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Why Not Build the Mosque?

Islam, Political Cost, and the Practice of Democracy in Greece

By: Dimitris Antoniou

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Why Not Build the Mosque?

Islam, Political Cost, and the Practice of Democracy in Greece

By: Dimitris Antoniou

An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracy Why Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt to build a central mosque. After the fall of Ottoman Empire, Greek Orthodoxy entwined with Greek nationalism, and by the twentieth century, the state came to imagine Islam as incompatible with a Greek-speaking Orthodox Christian identity. And so as late as 2020, the contemporary Greek state did not have a mosque, even as its Islamic population grew and increasingly required a place of worship. Focusing on the failed effort in the early 2000s to build a mosque in a suburb of Athens and on the subsequent, successful realization of the project in 2020, Dimitris Antoniou investigates the roles that the Orthodox Church, politicians concerned about the “political cost” of supporting a mosque, and the community played in the project’s delays, failures, and its bittersweet success. The mosque that was ultimately built in 2020 was itself a compromise, a modest building that failed to deliver on the dreamed-of and finally illusory building discussed in the 2000s. As Antoniou brings readers from under-the-radar home mosques to the offices of polling companies, politicians, and media corporations, he reveals that the years-long debate over if, how, and where to build a mosque wasa matter greater than religion or nationalism alone. Indeed, the story of the central mosque in Athens compellingly demonstrates how productive unrealized plans can be for some stakeholders—here politicians and members of media who built reputations on their support for or opposition to the unbuilt mosque—while leaving other stakeholders unable to move a project forward even when the will of the majority is with them. Ultimately, Why Not Build the Mosque? sheds light on what it takes for a government to make tangible changes—to infrastructure, in development, for a community—happen in contemporary democracies.

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246

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512827185

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9781512827187

Prime Ministers in Greece

The Paradox of Power

By: Kevin Featherstone,Dimitris Papadimitriou

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Prime Ministers in Greece

The Paradox of Power

By: Kevin Featherstone,Dimitris Papadimitriou

This book is the first in-depth study of Greek government and features extensive interviews and interviews with former prime ministers of Greece.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198717172

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9780198717171

Greeks in Turkey

Elite Nationalism and Minority Politics in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul

By: Dimitris Kamouzis

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Greeks in Turkey

Elite Nationalism and Minority Politics in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul

By: Dimitris Kamouzis

This book provides a solid and critical historical examination of the endorsement, development and course of Greek nationalism among the lay/clerical leadership of the Greek Orthodox minority of Istanbul during the last phase of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the newly established Republic of Turkey. The focus is on the political role played by the ethnocentric communal elite, who actively championed the Greek nationalist plan of the Megali Idea (Great Idea). Based on a comparative investigation and synthesis of a wide array of Greek and British archival sources the book engages with the various stages of Constantinopolitan Greek elite nationalism in Turkey and partly in Greece, and examines its manifestations, its level of success and its consequences on the minority during the crucial period of 1918–1930. The main argument is that the internal dynamics, the policies and the responses of this powerful communal elite vis-à-vis other communal factions as well as Greek irredentism and Turkish nation-building conditioned to a significant degree the construction of specific representations and perceptions of the group’s collective identity and determined the status of the Greeks of Istanbul as a national minority in Turkey until nowadays. Providing a thorough analysis of elite politics during and in the aftermath of the Greek-Turkish War and assessing the application of the minority clauses of the Treaty of Lausanne (July 1923), the volume is a key resource for students and academics interested in nationalism and minorities, modern Greek history, Ottoman and Turkish history as well as for policy makers and specialists working in the diplomatic field, the Greek and Turkish public service, international institutions and non-governmental organizations.

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Routledge

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1000332004

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Prime Ministers in Greece

The Paradox of Power

By: Kevin Featherstone,Dimitris Papadimitriou

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The Paradox of Power

By: Kevin Featherstone,Dimitris Papadimitriou

This book is concerned with a large question in one small, but highly problematic case: how can a prime minister establish control and coordination across his or her government? The Greek system of government sustains a 'paradox of power' at its very core. The Constitution provides the prime minister with extensive and often unchecked powers. Yet, the operational structures, processes and resources around the prime minister undermine their power to manage the government. Through a study of all main premierships between 1974 and 2009, Prime Ministers in Greece argues that the Greek prime minister has been 'an emperor without clothes'. The costs of this paradox included the inability to achieve key policy objectives under successive governments and a fragmented system of governance that provided the backdrop to Greece's economic meltdown in 2010. Building on an unprecedented range of interviews and archival material, Featherstone and Papadimitriou set out to explore how this paradox has been sustained. They conclude with the Greek system meeting its 'nemesis': the arrival of the close supervision of its government by the 'Troika' - the representatives of Greece's creditors. The debt crisis challenged taboos and forced a self-reflection. It remains unclear, however, whether either the external strategy or the domestic response is likely to be sufficient to make the Greek system of governance 'fit for purpose'.

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OUP Oxford

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0191026700

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9780191026706

Book's by Dimitris Stamatopoulos

Byzantium after the Nation

Byzantium after the Nation

The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)

The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)

The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)

The Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalism(s)

Why Not Build the Mosque?

Why Not Build the Mosque?

Prime Ministers in Greece

Prime Ministers in Greece

Greeks in Turkey

Greeks in Turkey

Prime Ministers in Greece

Prime Ministers in Greece

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