Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference

Alex G. Papadopoulos is professor of urban and political geography at DePaul University. He studies the contestation of urban space in Europe and the United States. His urban work includes studies on Brussels, Saint Petersburg, Istanbul, and Chicago, and the political geographic research entangles 'the urban' in works on SE European geopolitics.

This book explores competing definitions of Hellenism in the making of the Greek state by drawing on critical historical and geopolitical perspectives and their intersection with difference and exclusion.

Introduction: Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference 1.Hellenic Statecraft in Power Politics: The Limitations of Hard Power and the Promise of Collective Action 2. Historiography as Geopolitics of Statecraft. The Byzantine Turn and the Crafting of a Modern Hellenic Identity 3. Race, Identity, Territory. Contesting the Ethnological Profile of the Balkans 4. The Hellenization of Salonica. From Jewish Metropolis to Greece's "Co-Capital" (1912-1932) 5. Western Thrace's Minority Question. Redefining Difference Post-"Lausanne" 6. Pomaks, "Our Forgotten Siblings." From Suspect Aliens to Fulcrum of Statecraft 7. The Hellenization of Borderlands I: Settlement and Urbanization as Statecraft - 1919-1941 8. The Hellenization of Borderlands II: The Greek-Bulgarian Border, Mount Sapka, and the City of Didymoteicho 9. Contesting the Building of the Athens Mosque. Worship and Placemaking in the Margins