The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order: Greece, Turkey and the End of Wwi

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.

Georgios Giannakopoulos is Lecturer in Modern History at City University 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 and Adoption, Memory and Cold War Greece (2019).