Open research questions in Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies
66 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,448 Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
What the literature leaves open
The paper identifies a gap in understanding Eurozone enlargement as a structural mechanism of capitalist consolidation. The paper addresses the lack of a Marxist political economy analysis of Bulgaria's path toward Eurozone accession.
The article identifies a gap in the literature, as Slovenia has largely disappeared from contemporary discussions. The study aims to understand why Slovenia has largely disappeared from contemporary discussions.
SLOVENIA IN THE COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EASTERN EUROPEAN PERIPHERY: FROM RESEARCH LABORATORY TO MARGINALISATION · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in understanding the impact of economic reforms on democratic consolidation in post-authoritarian countries. The study aims to address this gap by analyzing Albania's transition experience.
EDITORIAL - From Authoritarianism to Democracy - Thirty-Five Years of Political and Social Transformation in Albania (1990–2025) · 2026 · DOIThe study identifies a gap in the understanding of the situation of the Bulgarian armed bands in Macedonia during the transition from autocracy to constitutionalism.
THE SITUATION OF BULGARIAN ARMED BANDS IN MACEDONIA BETWEEN AUTOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM ACCORDING TO BRITISH DOCUMENTS · 2026 · DOIAlthough there has been much talk about the new generation and its key role in the post-2010 anti-austerity and anti-authoritarian movements across the world, only recently has the generational component of social movements been constituted as a research topic, and despite a few notable exceptions, the issue of intergenerational relationships within social movements is but rarely addressed.
Contentious Millennials and generational dimensions in contemporary social movements in Greece · 2023 · DOIWith a view to helping fill this gap in the literature, this article identifies the direction and assesses the extent of influence exerted by government political orientation, on the one hand, and by economic downturn alongside its fiscal repercussions, on the other hand, upon the evolution of incarceration in the context of contemporary Greece.
What’s Left? Political orientation, economic conditions and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government · 2020 · DOIBy shifting attention to a poorly studied area - minority actors and their activities at the eu level – the article illustrates how minority actors create own change, how they are influenced by their own ‘usages of Europe’ and how this process helps to advance our knowledge of Europeanisation of today’s national minority politics.
Europeanisation as Legitimacy to Identify as a ‘National Minority’: The Turkish Community in Greece · 2019 · DOIWhile the antiquisation policy pursued by FYROM, which has been a (albeit not the only) bone of contention in the conflict appears to be diminishing, it remains to be seen to what extent perceptions from inside and the vicinity of the interested parties still favour the integration bid and endow it with genuine chances of accomplishment before the feebly-enshrined date of 2025.
What Macedonia? Some Considerations on the Current Perceptions of the Name Dispute Amid FYROM’s EU Integration Bid · 2018 · DOIBut in this case the democracy had been limited to the citizens only (it means mature males of citizen families) and this group formed as little as at about 10% of the population of Athenian state.
An analysis of Serbian diplomatic documents has shown that from 1911 a slow process continued of Bulgaria and Serbia coming to the conclusion that a consent concerning the future of Macedonia had to be reached but there was no agreement as how to divide up the Macedonian territory between the two sides.
The Macedonian Question in the Light of the Documents of the Serbian Diplomacy 1903–1914 · 2014 · DOIEmphasis is given to the ‘Outraged’ of Syntagma Square and their daily protests during the summer of 2011; a movement that has remained underreported in relation to other similar phenomena, despite the huge number of participants, and the intensity of its clash with the state.
Lipsmeyer (Citation2009), another study applying the mandate framework to the post-communist countries, does not account for government participation.
Democratic performance in post-communist Bulgaria: election pledges and levels of fulfillment, 1997–2005 · 2013 · DOIFor, while their Greek identity in the Soviet Union was defined in their official documentation and necessitated little obvious manifestation of cultural, linguistic, or religious signs and practices, this same identity was insufficient to qualify them as members of their host society, even though the Greek State had officially bestowed such a qualification upon them.
"Abroad I was Greek and in Greece I am a Foreigner": Pontic Greeks from Former Soviet Union in Greece · 2012 · DOIIt is part of the effort to provide a witness for them, instead, as a rebellion, as a story telling us something about Greek youth, politics, and society that must be listened to, understood, and interpreted, and as an “event” creating new potentialities in Greek political processes that remain to be revealed.
It is only since 2004 that the Socialist party has changed its plans but it remains uncertain whether and how it would implement its radical (by Greek standards) pro-immigrant policies if it came to power.
Greek Immigration Policy at the Turn of the 21st Century. Lack of Political Will or Purposeful Mismanagement? · 2009 · DOIFinding a lasting solution to the question of FYROM’s name has taken on a new urgency in light of NATO’s enlargement and FYROM’s desire to join the organization; it remains to be seen whether the momentum built over the past decade can be maintained or whether economic relations will suffer as a result of renewed political tension and diplomatic roadblocks.
In this newly revised translation, he offers a wealth of detail and rigorous argu mentation, suggesting ultimately, in what amounts to a defence of historical context, that the concept of freedom needs to be studied and accounted for in each period of its evolution separately and distinctly, using both direct sources as well as those sources which intimate or seem to suggest a concern with something like freedom even before the concept itself was actually born.
The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece by Kurt Raaflaub , Renate Franciscono (review) · 2006 · DOIThe Greek economy has benefited significantly from these developments and stands to gain even more in the future; but much remains to be done in accelerating market‐orientated reforms and in strengthening these countries’ trade‐related institutions and infrastructure, for which external assistance is needed.
Subsequently, the constitutional debate focused for almost ten years on the one issue concerning which the Greek framers had reached no consensus—namely, the powers of the president of the Republic which, in the eyes of the Left, including Pasok, privileged the executive branch over the legislative.
The Bulgarian occupation authorities were restricted by the provisional nature of the boundary regulations. The extensive amount of German economic and political influence limited the Bulgarian authorities' actions.
The paper identifies a gap in understanding the Bulgarian nationalities policy in occupied Thrace and Aegean Macedonia during World War II. The study highlights the need for further research on the complexities of occupation policies during this period.
The social security system in Bulgaria was limited prior to the revolution. There was a need to establish a new insurance system based on new principles.
Although adequate data are still lacking, it may be said in a nutshell that a measure of class consciousness and class voting is to be found mostly at the extremes of the social structure, among the bourgeoisie and a fraction of the working class, who massively support ND and the KKE respectively.
SELF-RELIANCE: THE CONCEPT AND SOME OPEN QUESTIONS The concept of self-reliance has been transplanted from its roots in Latin America ("TeorÃ-a de la dependencia") and Africa (Samir Amin's Le Développement inégal) to Europe.
The paper identifies a gap in understanding the political dimensions of Greece's accession to the EC. The paper seeks to address the lack of discussion on the implications of Greece's accession to the EC.
Most-cited papers in Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies
- The JCMS Annual Lecture: The Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis and EMU: A Failing State in a Skewed Regime* · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies · 2011 · 198 citations
- Patterns of competitive authoritarianism in the Western Balkans · East European Politics · 2018 · 166 citations
- Election goals and income redistribution: Recent evidence from Albania · European Economic Review · 2001 · 164 citations
- Who Protests in Greece? Mass Opposition to Austerity · British Journal of Political Science · 2013 · 142 citations
- Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance · Scandinavian Political Studies · 2004 · 128 citations
- The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece · The Journal of Law and Economics · 2006 · 119 citations
- Emerging Varieties of Capitalism in Transition Countries · Comparative Political Studies · 2006 · 103 citations
- Political parties in post‐junta Greece: A case of ‘bureaucratic clientelism'? · West European Politics · 1984 · 96 citations
- Social and Institutional Trust in Times of Crisis: Greece, 2002–2011 · Social Indicators Research · 2018 · 92 citations
- It Isn't Just about Greece: Domestic Politics, Transparency and Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe · British Journal of Political Science · 2014 · 91 citations
Most recent work
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- The Greek revolution of 1821 and the Romanians: the 25th of March 1821 recalled in Ελπις [Elpís], the periodical of The Hellenic Union of Romania · Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies · 2026
- Imperialism, sovereignty, and medieval musicology: Ontologies and ideologies of “Bulgarian chant” in the early twentieth century · The Musical Quarterly · 2026
- Women’s empowerment in Southeast European diplomacy: a comparative analysis of Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Greece · Southeast European and Black Sea Studies · 2026
- Voting in a constrained democracy: Evidence from the 1963 and 1964 legislative elections in Greece · Political Studies · 2026
- Where the hegemons meet: rethinking the Thucydides Trap, from Hellas to the pacific · Cambridge Review of International Affairs · 2026
- SLOVENIA IN THE COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EASTERN EUROPEAN PERIPHERY: FROM RESEARCH LABORATORY TO MARGINALISATION · Teorija in praksa · 2026
- Education and Politics. The Role of School in the Struggle for Macedonia in the Second Half of the 19th Century · Bulgarian Historical Review · 2026
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