My name is Yorgos Giannakopoulos, though friends and colleagues usually call me George, and the formal rendition of my name is Georgios. I grew up in Greece and studied Political Science and History at Panteion University, Athens(BA, MA), before completing a PhD in Modern History at Queen Mary University of London.

I am currently Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the Department of International Politics, City St George’s, University of London, where I also serve as Associate Dean in the School of Policy and Global Affairs. I am additionally affiliated with the London School of Economics (Departments of International History and IDEAS) and King’s College London (Centre for Hellenic Studies).

I serve on the executive committees of the Society for Modern Greek Studies and the Greek Politics Specialist Group (UK), and I am Associate Editor for the Social Sciences at the Journal of Modern Greek Studies.

My research explores the intersections of empire, international order, and the politics of intervention in Britain and Southeastern Europe since the nineteenth century. I am particularly interested in how Greece and the wider Eastern Mediterranean have functioned as laboratories for European ideas of civilisation, sovereignty, and reform. My current projects trace the genealogy of humanitarian and financial interventions, the intellectual and diplomatic entanglements of Britain and southeastern Europe, the global politics of partition and the afterlives of liberal internationalism in the modern world.

I have previously held teaching and research appointments at Queen Mary University of London, University College London, Durham University, New York University, the University of the Peloponnese, the Hellenic Open University, and the Academy of Athens.