The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order - (Histories of Internationalism) (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

From 1919 to 1922, Greece and Turkey fought a brutal war for Anatolia that reconfigured international politics.

This volume examines the international, transnational and economic dimensions of that conflict and the bitter peace that formally ended it.

Bringing together a diverse group of experts drawing on multiple archives and the latest scholarship, this volume analyses the complexities of peacemaking, the foundation of new nations through the violent 'unmixing' of peoples, the traumas of military mobilisation, and the remarkable revival of global capitalism on the ruins of old empires. Taken together, these essays will remind readers that the Great War did not end in 1919, and that the Greek-Turkish story is a critical element in the wider reshaping of twentieth-century international order.

Review Quotes

"This book powerfully demonstrates the importance of integrating the history of the Anatolian War of 1919-1922 into Western narratives of the making of the modern world. With excellent contributions on different aspects of the conflict and its wider ramifications, the volume contributes to a better understanding of both the emergence of a new global order after 1918, and the beginnings of its unravelling." --Robert Gerwarth, Director of the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland

"Looking backward and forward from the final settlement of the First World War, this volume reveals the complicated legacy of war and peacemaking on regional and international relations in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East." --Michelle Tusan, Porfessor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

About the Author

Georgios Giannakopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City St. George's University of London, UK, and visiting research fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, UK. The author of British Internationalism and Imperial Order in Southeastern Europe, he has published widely on British and European intellectual and international history in journals such as Global Intellectual History, Modern Intellectual History and Contemporary European History.

Joseph A. Maiolo is Professor of International History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK. He is the co-author of Arms Races in International Politics: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (2016), The International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond (2014) and co-editor of volume two of The Cambridge History of the Second World War (2017).

Gonda Van Steen holds the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in the Department of Classics at King's College London, UK. She is the author of five books including Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire (2010), Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974 (2015), and Adoption, Memory and Cold War Greece (2019).