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About George Giannakopoulos

George Giannakopoulos is a historian of Modern Britain and Europe. He has recently guest edited the special issue Britain, European Civilization and the idea of Liberty” for the History of European Ideas (2020)

NBN Episodes hosted by George:

General History May 21, 2021

Fighting Terror after Napoleon

How Europe Became Secure after 1815

Beatrice de Graaf

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. With the threat of war and revolutionary terror still looming …
Intellectual History September 23, 2020

Freedom

An Unruly History

Annelien de Dijn

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But who came up with this understanding of freedom …
Intellectual History June 25, 2020

Race, Nation, History

Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era

Oded Y. Steinberg

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
Oded Y. Steinberg (DPhil Oxford) is a fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Next year (2020-21), Steinberg will begin …
Intellectual History February 24, 2020

Potential History

Unlearning Imperialism

Ariella Aisha Azoulay

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
Ariella Aisha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial …
Intellectual History January 20, 2020

Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty

Maria Dimova-Cookson

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and …
General History October 15, 2019

A World Divided

The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

Eric D. Weitz

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
Who has the right to have rights? Motivated by Hannah Arendt’s famous reflections on the question of statelessness the book tells a non-linear global story of the emergence and transformations …
Intellectual History July 8, 2019

Partitions

A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism

Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov

Hosted by George Giannakopoulos
The practice of Partition understood as the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states is often regarded as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In their …