“Who are we?” A quest for Greek identity

Who are we? The geopolitics of Greek identity, published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2017, is a book by George Prevelakis, professor emeritus at Sorbonne, who has taught at Sciences Po, Johns Hopkins, Tufts and LSE and whose interests have ranged all the way from urban planning to geopolitics to the study of diasporas, tries to deliver a number of answers to the seminal question that has hunted Greece and Greeks: “Who are we?”.

As the translator of this book from its original Greek language version – J.C.B. Petropoulos, of the Harvard U. Center for Hellenic Studies introduces it, to study Who Greeks are strickes at the heart of European identity – peculiar Westerners, “truants” of the West, “constituent elements of the West and the property of humankind”.

The network element of the Greek experience: shipping and the diaspora

An all-encompassing element of G. Prevelakis’ approach to the Greek identity   – as it has evolved throughout time – is the role of Greek networks which operate and thrive around the world. Two of them, shipping and the diaspora, span the globe with success.