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Prof.
Stathis Kalyvas
Στάθης Ν. Καλύβας
Born (1964-03-07) March 7, 1964 (age 61)
NationalityGreek
OccupationProfessor of political science
Known forCivil war, ethnicity, political violence
AwardsWoodrow Wilson Awards, European Academy of Sociology Book Award, Luebbert Best Book Award, J. David Greenstone Prize
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Sub-disciplineCivil war, conflict
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago, Ohio State, Oxford, Yale
Notable ideas"New Wave" school of Modern Greek historiography; political violence, rationality of violence in civil conflict

Stathis N. Kalyvas (Greek: Στάθης Ν. Καλύβας; born 7 March 1964) is a Greek political scientist who is the Gladstone Professor of Government, at the University of Oxford and a University Academic Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Kalyvas held the Arnold Wolfers Chair in Political Science at Yale University (from 2003 to 2017), where he founded the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence; prior to that,he held professorships at the University of Chicago, New York University, and Ohio State University. He has also conducted research at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.[1][2][3] Kalyvas has written extensively on civil wars, ethnicity, and political violence.[4]

He was a main founder, with Nikos Marantzides, of a current in Modern Greek historiography called the "New Wave" which was focused principally on the study of the Greek Civil War. Among his works is The Logic of Violence in Civil War, which challenges the view of violence in civil wars as irrational.

Early life

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Kalyvas was born on the island Corfu (Kerkyra) in 1964, where his father was serving in the Hellenic Coast Guard at the time. His family later moved to Athens and it was there that he spent his early childhood; residing first in Kolonos, and later in Nea Smyrni. His mother was French, and at the age of ten, the family moved to Marseilles, where he spent his adolescent years and completed his general education.

Education and career

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Kalyvas completed his undergraduate studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1986, and received his PhD diploma in Political Science at the University of Chicago in 1993. Besides Yale, he also taught at Ohio State University from 1993-94, NYU from 1994-2000, and the University of Chicago from 2000-2003.

He has also been a visiting professor or scholar at Northwestern University, Columbia University, Witten/Herdecke University, Instituto Carlos III-Juan March, the Max Planck Institute, and European University. He has written, amongst other works, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996). He is a contributor and editor to the book Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and more than fifty scholarly articles in five languages.

He has been a frequent contributor to the newspaper Kathimerini since 2009. His articles and have been published in multiple mass-media outlets, such as the New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic.

He has been a member of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy, a think tank affiliated with the New Democracy party. [5]

In 2017, it was announced that he had been appointed William Gladstone Professor of Government and a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.[6]

His current research is in world trends in political life and civil wars.[7]His research has been funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation.

In 2021, he participated in a panel at the Bodossaki Foundation, which had the principal theme "Action Plan for the University of 2030: Principles and Positions."[8]

His book Katastrofes ke Thriamboi ("Calamities and Coups"), a history of modern Greece, was adapted in 2022 for television by Skai TV, and produced under the same title.[9]

In December 2023, Professor Kalyvas by honorary invitation took up the presidency of the administrative council of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.[10]

Historigraphy

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New Wave

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The work of Kalyvas is regarded as revisionist, that inspects with fresh eyes, called meta-revisionist,[11]: 40 [12][page needed] which wishes to variously differentiate and dispute historiographic "certainties" and "orthodoxies."[13]: 408 These new revisionist eyes are also called "New Wave."[14][13]: 408  The term New Wave refers to that interdisciplinary focus which is a central principle in the study of the Greek Civil War for Stathis Kalyvas and Nikos Marantzidis.[15] The historiographic readings of the "New Wave" aroused an intense interest among historians, concering the nature of civil conflicts, their duration, the intentions of the protagonists, and the disregarding of violence by the left.[16]

In contrast to the view called revisionist by the historians of the generation 1960s-1970s, which had established metapolitics as the historiography of the left, a new revisionist view emerged in the final decades of the 1990s. This new revisionism was also called New Wave. The "Network for the Study of Civil War" (Δίκτυο για τη Μελέτη των Εμφυλίων Πολέμων, Díktio yia ti Meléti ton Emfilíon Polémon) became a standard bearer of the new revisionism with its principal representatives being Stathis Kalyvas and Nikos Marantzidis. A heterogeneous group of researchers, instructors, and academics have gathered in this network, expressing a variety of ideologoical positions and at the same time deriving them from a variety of scientific fields. [11]: 42–3 [17]

Criticism

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His "New Wave" theses have been criticized in the learned writings of both older and younger historians.[18]: 104 

Awards

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Kalyvas is the holder of a Woodrow Wilson Awards and the European Academy of Sociology Book Award; along with the Luebbert Best Book Award and the J. David Greenstone Prize of the American Political Science Association.

His work has been honored with many prizes, among which are the Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book with the them of government, politics, or international affairs, a research grant from theHarry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, the European Academy of Sociology Book Award, the Luebbert Award for the best article in comparative politics (three times), and the Greenstone Award for the best book on politics and history.

In 2007, he was made a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2008, he was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, to the British Academy.

Bibliography

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In English

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Books

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In French

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  • 2015. Occupation et résistance au prisme des guerres civiles: un schéma analytique des affrontements, de la violence et de leur impact. In Pierre 5 – 5 – Laborie and François Marcot(eds.), Les comportements collectifs en France et dans l’Europe allemande, 1940-1945. Historiographie, normes, prismes, 1940-1945. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015, 63-79
  • 2003. Les Guerres civiles a la fin de la Guerre Froide. In Pierre Hassner et Roland Marchal (eds), Guerres et sociétés. Etat et violence après la Guerre froide. Paris: Editions Karthala, 107-135
  • 2001. Aspects méthodologiques des études des massacres: le cas de la guerre civile grecque. Revue Internationale de Politique Compareé 8:1, 23-42

In Greek

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Books

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  • Ανορθόδοξοι πόλεμοι. Μακεδονία, Εμφύλιος, Κύπρος (επιμέλεια μαζί Βασίλη Κ. Γούναρη και Ιωάννη Δ. Στεφανίδη), Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, Αθήνα 2010, ISBN 978-960-16-3373-2.
  • Εμφύλια πάθη. 23+2 Ερωτήσεις και απαντήσεις για τον εμφύλιο (μαζί με τον Νίκο Μαραντζίδη), Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο, Αθήνα 2015, ISBN 978-618-03-0068-0.
  • Εμφύλια πάθη. 2 νέες ερωτήσεις και απαντήσεις για τον εμφύλιο (μαζί με τον Νίκο Μαραντζίδη), Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο, Αθήνα 2016, ISBN 978-618-03-0663-7.
  • Η άνοδος της χριστιανοδηµοκρατίας στην Eυρώπη, μετάφραση: Κωνσταντίνος Κολιόπουλος, επιμέλεια: Κωνσταντίνος Αρβανιτόπουλος, Σπύρος Μακρής, Εκδόσεις Ποιότητα / Ινστιτούτο Δημοκρατίας "Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής", Αθήνα 2003, ISBN 960-7803-28-0, ISBN 978-960-7803-28-3.
  • Καταστροφές και θρίαμβοι. Οι 7 κύκλοι της σύγχρονης ελληνικής ιστορίας, μετάφραση: Νίκος Ρούσσος, Εκδόσεις Παπαδόπουλος, Αθήνα 2015, ISBN 978-960-569-334-3.
  • Πού είμαστε και πού πάμε; Διατρέχοντας την κρίση (2009-2016) και ατενίζοντας το μέλλον, Εκδόσεις Μεταίχμιο, Αθήνα 2016, ISBN 978-618-03-0780-1.

Articles

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Joint Articles

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  • Ανατομία της κρίσης [Anatomy of the Crisis] (co-authored with Thanos Veremis, George Pagoulatos, Theodoros Couloumbis, Loukas Tsoukalis, and Haridimos Tsoukas). Athens: Skai, 2011
  • Εμφύλια πάθη [Civil War Passions] (co-authored with Nikos Marantzidis). Athens: Metechmio, 2015* Ανορθόδοξοι Πόλεμοι: Μακεδονία, Εμφύλιος, Κύπρος [Irregular Wars: Macedonia, Civil War, Cyprus] (co-edited with Vassilis K. Gounaris and Ioannis Stefanidis). Athens: Patakis, 2010
  • Διεθνείς σχέσεις. Σύγχρονη θεματολογία και προσεγγίσεις: Αφιέρωμα στον Θεόδωρο Κουλουμπή, επιμέλεια: Δ. Τριανταφύλλου, Κ. Υφαντής, Ε. Χατζηβασιλείου, Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, Αθήνα 2008, ISBN 978-960-02-2202-9.
  • Εμείς οι Έλληνες. Πολεμική ιστορία της σύγχρονης Ελλάδας: Από την Απελευθέρωση στον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο και την Κύπρο, επιμέλεια: Θάνος Βερέμης, Μιχάλης Ν. Κατσίγερας, Εκδόσεις Σκάι, Αθήνα 2011, ISBN 978-960-6845-17-8.
  • Εχθρός εντός των τειχών. Όψεις του δωσιλογισμού στην Ελλάδα της Κατοχής, επιμέλεια: Ιάκωβος Μιχαηλίδης, Ηλίας Νικολακόπουλος, Χάγκεν Φλάισερ, Εκδόσεις Ελληνικά Γράμματα, Αθήνα 2006, ISBN 960-442-378-9, ISBN 978-960-442-378-1.
  • Η ανατομία της κρίσης. Η παθογένεια της ελληνικής κοινωνίας μέσα από άρθρα δημοσιευμένα στην εφημερίδα "Η Καθημερινή", Εκδόσεις Σκάι, Αθήνα 2011, ISBN 978-960-482-052-8.
  • Η εποχή της σύγχυσης. Η δεκαετία του '40 και η ιστοριογραφία, επιμέλεια: Γιώργος Αντωνίου, Νίκος Μαραντζίδης, Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας, Αθήνα 2008, ISBN 978-960-05-1400-1.
  • Ιστοριογραφία της νεότερης και σύγχρονης Ελλάδας 1833-2002. Πρακτικά Δ' διεθνούς συνεδρίου ιστορίας, επιμέλεια: Πασχάλη Μ. Κιτρομηλίδη, Τριαντάφυλλος Ε. Σκλαβενίτης, Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (Ε.Ι.Ε.) / Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών, Αθήνα 2004, ISBN 960-7916-37-9, ISBN 978-960-7916-37-2.
  • Μετά τον πόλεμο. Η ανασυγκρότηση της οικογένειας του έθνους και του κράτους στην Ελλάδα, 1943 - 1960, επιμέλεια: Mark Mazower, Γιάννης Καστανάρας, μετάφραση: Ειρήνη Θεοφυλακτοπούλου, Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα 2003, ISBN 960-221-270-5, ISBN 978-960-221-270-7.
  • Νότια Πελοπόννησος 1935-1950, επιμέλεια: Ιωάννης Καρακατσιάνης, Εκδόσεις Αλφειός, Αθήνα 2009, ISBN 978-960-6679-10-0.

References

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  1. ^ Oslo (PRIO), Peace Pesearch Institute. "Stathis Kalyvas". www.prio.org. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  2. ^ Stathis Kalyvas, Curriculum Vitae
  3. ^ "Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know. A candid conversation with Professor Stathis N. Kalyvas", Columbia University
  4. ^ Kalyvas, Stathis; Straus, Scott (2020-11-25). "Stathis Kalyvas on 20 years of studying political violence". Violence. 1 (2): 389–407. doi:10.1177/2633002420972955. ISSN 2633-0024.
  5. ^ Ο ΙΟΣ (2003-10-26). "Οι Ταγματασφαλίτες δικαιώνονται - Η ΝΕΑ ΔΕΞΙΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ" [The Security Battalions Are Justified - THE NEW RIGHT HISTORIOGRAPHY]. Eleftherotypia (in Greek). Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  6. ^ "Professor Stathis Kalyvas appointed to the Gladstone Professorship of Government". Oxford University. 2017-10-04. Archived from the original on 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  7. ^ "Για το βιβλίο των Στ. Καλύβα-Ν. Μαραντζίδη / «Εμφύλια Πάθη»: Μια (όχι τόσο) νέα αφήγηση για τη δεκαετία του 1940" [On the Book of St. Kalyvas & N. Marantzides / "Civil Strife: A (Not So) New Account of the Decade of the 1940s]. I Avgi (in Greek). 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  8. ^ "Σχέδιο δράσης για το Πανεπιστήμιο του 2030 από το Ίδρυμα Μποδοσάκη" [Action Plan for the University of 2030 of the Bodossakis Foundation]. Athinorama (in Greek). 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  9. ^ "Σεζόν 2021 - 2022". Skai TV (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  10. ^ Βασιλειάδου, Μάρω (2023-12-05). "Στ. Καλύβας στην «Κ»: «Πολύ τιμητική για μένα η θέση του προέδρου του Δ.Σ. στο ΚΠΙΣΝ»" [St. Kalyvas in "K": It is a great honor for me to be placed as president of the A.C. of The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center]. Kathimerini (in Greek). Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  11. ^ a b Antoniou, Yiorgos; Marantzides, Nikos (2008). Η εποχή της σύγχυσης. Η δεκαετία του '40 και η ιστοριογραφία [The Age of Confusion: The Decade of the Forties and Historigraphy] (in Greek). Athens: Το Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας (Hestia Bookstore). ISBN 978-960-05-1400-1.
  12. ^ Nikos Marantzidis; G. Antoniou (May 2008). "«Για τη (χαμένη;) τιμή της ιστοριογραφίας: το «χαμένο» ημερολόγιο του Δ. Βλαντά" [On the (lost?) value of historiography: the "lost" diary of Dimitris Vlantas]. Nea Estia. Vol. 163, no. 1811.
  13. ^ a b Βαφέας, Νίκος; Τζούκας, Βαγγέλης (2012). "«Η πολιτική κληρονομιά του ΕΔΕΣ: Το Εθνικόν Κόμμα Ελλάδος (1945-1950)»" [The political inheritance of EDES: The National Party of Greece (1945-1950)]. Η εποχή των ρήξεων: Η ελληνική κοινωνία στη δεκαετία του 1940 [The Epoch of Bloodletting: The Greek Community in the Decade of the 1940s]. By Various. Βόγλης, Πολυμέρης; Τσιλάγα, Φλώρα; Χανδρινος, Ιάσονας; Χαραλαμπίδης, Μενέλαος (eds.). (in Greek). Θεσσαλονίκη: Επίκεντρο. ISBN 978-960-458-363-8.
  14. ^ Δορδανάς 2015, p. 108.
  15. ^ Pagoulatos, George; Tsoukas, Haris (2012). From Stagnation to Forced Adjustment: Reforms in Greece, 1974-2010. London - New York: Hurst & Co. - Columbia University Press.
  16. ^ Kornets, Kostis (September 2014). "From Reconciliation to Vengeance: The Greek Civil War on Screen in Pantelis Voulgaris's A Soul so Deep and Kostas Charalambous's Tied Red Thread". FILMICON: Journal of Greek Film Studies (2). New York: New York University. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  17. ^ "Μέλη της Ομάδας" [Members of a Squad]. Civil Wars Study Group (in Greek). October 23, 2019. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  18. ^ Paloukis, Costas (2017). "Η λογική της ενδοαριστερής βίας: Κομματικοί εναντίον τροτσκιστώνἄρχειομαρξιστών [The logic of inter-left violence: Partisans against Trotskyite Archeio-Marxism]". In Polimeris Boglis, Ioanna Papauanasiou, Tasos Sakellaropoulos, Menelaos Kharalambides (ed.). Δεκέμβρης 1944: Το παρελθόν και οι χρήσεις του [December 1944: The past and its uses]. Athens: Αλεξάνδρεια.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

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