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2022: Turkish Politics and the People: Mass Mobilization and Populism, Edinburgh University Press

2013: Islam in Europe: Civic Networks and Public Spaces, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (with Roza Tsagarousianou)

2013: Tarihin Cenderesinde: Türk ve Yunan Milliyetçiliği, Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press (with Umut Özkirimli)

2008: Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, NY: Columbia University Press.(with Umut Özkirimli) [ISBN 978-0-231-70052-8].

2008: Το βάσανο της Ιστορίας, Athens: Καστανιώτης (with Umut Özkirimli)  [ISBN 9789600347913].

2007: Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey, London: Hurst (with Umut Özkirimli) [ISBN 9781850658993].

1996: Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge (with B. Jenkins) [ISBN 0415123127]

edited journal issues

2012: Multiculturalisms, Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20(3) [edited journal issue – Print ISSN: 1478-2804]

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jes1998: Borders & Boundaries, Special Issue of Journal of Area Studies, 12, Summer 1998 – edited journal issue Print ISSN: 1478-2804.

1997: Nation, Place, Culture, Special Issue of Journal of Area Studies, 10, Spring 1997 – edited journal issue Print ISSN: 1478-2804.

1996: Citizenship, Special Issue of Journal of Area Studies, no. 8, Summer 1996 – edited journal issue Print ISSN: 1478-2804.

Journal articles & book chapters

2017: ’Alone in the city: Gezi as a moment of transgression’ in Oscar Hemer & Hans-Åke Persson (eds) In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change London: Palgrave.

2016: ‘Turkey: of coups and popular resistance’ (21 July 2016) openDemocracy  https://www.opendemocracy.net/spyros-sofos/turkey-of-coups-and-popular-resistance 

2016: ‘Protest Politics in Turkey’ in Simin Fadaee (ed) Understanding social movements in the Global South. London: Routledge, with U. Özkirimli

2015:‘Why I will be voting YES in Sunday’s Greek referendum’ (1 July 2015) openDemocracy  https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/spyros-sofos/why-i-will-be-voting-yes-in-sunday%E2%80%99s-greek-referendum

2015:‘#QuiSommesNous? A Socratic dialogue on “L’Affaire Charlie Hebdo”’ (13 January 2015) openDemocracy  https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/umut-ozkirimli-spyros-sofos/quisommesnous-socratic-dialogue-on-%E2%80%9Cl%E2%80%99

2015: ‘Turkish reactions on the Greek antiracism Law’, Council of European Studies, Columbia University http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom

2014: ‘Rallying for Gezi, or Metaphors of Aporia and Empowerment’ in U. Özkirimli (ed.) The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey: #occupygezi, Palgrave Pivot. ISBN: 9781137413772

2013: ‘Beyond the Intractability of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute’ in M. Casule et al. (eds.), The Name Issue Revisited, MIC, ISBN: 9789989207280

2013: ‘Taksim Revisited’. Transconflict. http://www.transconflict.com/2013/06/taksim-revisited-276/

2013: ‘A protest like no other’. Transconflict. http://www.transconflict.com/2013/06/taksim-a-protest-like-no-other-266/

2012: ‘Back to the drawing board: Rethinking multiculturalism in an age of uncertainty’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20(3) [refereed journal article]. Print ISSN: 1478-2804, Online ISSN: 1478-2790

2012: ‘Elections in Greece’ Diplomaatia no. 106/107 • June 2012, also translated in Estonian as ‘Protest kokkuhoiu vastu’

2011: Montenegro – a census like no other?, Transconflict,   http://www.transconflict.com/2011/07/montenegro-a-census-like-no-other-147/

2011: Macedonia – time to contemplate genuine coexistence, Transconflict, http://www.transconflict.com/2011/06/macedonia-time-to-contemplate-genuine-coexistence-226/

2010: ‘Nationalism in Greece and Turkey: Modernity, Enlightenment, Westernization’ (with Umut Özkırımlı), in Ayhan Aktar, Niyazi Kızılyürek and Umut Özkırımlı (eds), The Troubled Triangle: Nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan [book chapter – ISBN: 978-0-230-57915-6, ISBN10: 0-230-57915-9,].

2010: ‘Nationalism in Greece and Turkey: Modernity, Enlightenment, Westernization’ (with Umut Özkırımlı), in Ayhan Aktar, Niyazi Kızılyürek and Umut Özkırımlı (eds), The Troubled Triangle: Nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan [ISBN: 978-0-230-57915-6, ISBN 10: 0-230-57915-9,].

2010: ‘The Greek-Macedonian dispute – time to return to the drawing board?’, Transconflict, http://www.transconflict.com/2010/03/the-greek-macedonian-dispute-%E2%80%93-time-to-return-to-the-drawing-board/ [article – March 2010]

2010: ‘The Way Forward: Grassroots Diplomacy in the Southern Balkans’, Transconflict, http://www.transconflict.com/2010/04/the-way-forward-grassroots-diplomacy-in-the-southern-balkans/ [article – May 2010]

also reproduced in Contemporary Relations, Centre for Contemporary Relations, Belgrade http://www.contemporaryrelations.eu/1277/the-way-forward-grassroots-diplomacy-in-the-southern-balkans/ [article – May 2010]

2010: Thinking beyond the crisis: Greece and the Balkans,  Transconflict, http://www.transconflict.com/2010/06/thinking-beyond-the-crisis-greece-and-the-balkans-156/ [article –July 2010]

2009: ‘Tormented by History: Greece, Turkey and the Territorial Imagination’ in O. Anastasakis, K. Oktem, K. Nikolaidis (eds) Under the Long Shadows of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Post-Nationalism, Leiden: E. J. Brill [with U. Özkirimli – ISBN 978 90 04 17112 1].

2009: ‘Colonizing the Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey’ in F.A. Gemenne and S. G. Carvalho (eds) Nations and their Histories, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan [with U. Özkirimli – ISBN 9780230218604].

2008: ‘Grassroots Diplomacy in the Southern Balkans’, The Bridge: A bimonthly review on European integration, SE Europe & the SE Mediterranean, 9(2) [ISSN 17912237].

2007: ‘Turkey’s summer fever: symptom of a changing political system?’ Southeastern Europe, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2007 [ISSN 1756-1361]

2001: ‘Macedonia at the crossroads’, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 3:2, November 2001 [Print ISSN: 1944-8953 – Online ISSN: 1944-8961].

2001: ‘Yugoslavia: The Day After …’, Mediterranean Politics, 6:3, Autumn 2001 [Print ISSN: 1362-9395 Online ISSN: 1743-9418].

2001: ‘European integration and the Transformation of Turkish Politics’ in Kevin Featherstone and George Kazamias (eds), Europeanization and the Southern Periphery, London: Frank Cass [ISBN 0714650870].

2000: ‘Reluctant Europeans? European integration and the Transformation of Turkish Politics’, South European Society and Politics, Winter 2000 [Print ISSN: 1360-8746   Online ISSN: 1743-9612].

1999: ‘Kosovo: History, Identity, Ethnic Conflict’, Mediterranean Politics, 3:3 [review essay –Print ISSN: 1362-9395 Online ISSN: 1743-9418].

1999: ‘Culture, media and the politics of disintegration in former Yugoslavia’, in Tim Allen & Jean Seaton (eds), The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence, London: Zed Press [book chapter – ISBN: 1 85649 570 1].

1998: ‘The Greek Civil War and its Legacy: Politics and Identity in Post-War Greece’, Historical Critical Review/Yuksabipyoung (Seoul, Korea), 42: 1 (translated in Korean) [ISSN 12273627].

1998 ‘Why Talk about Boundaries?’,  Journal of Area Studies, 12, Summer 1998 [Print ISSN: 1478-2804, Online ISSN: 1478-2790].

1997: ‘Towards the New Millennium: the politics of identity in contemporary Europe’, Journal of Area Studies , 10, Spring 1997 [Print ISSN: 1478-2804, Online ISSN: 1478-2790].

1996: ‘Inter-ethnic Violence and Gendered Constructions of Ethnicity in former Yugoslavia’, Social Identities, 2:1, January 1996 [Print ISSN: 1350-4630  Online ISSN: 1363-0296].

1996: ‘Nationalism, Mass Communications and Public Rituals in Former Yugoslavia: The case of Serbia’, Contemporary Politics, 2:1, Spring 1996 [Print ISSN: 1356-9775   Online ISSN: 1469-3631].

1996: ‘From “Yugoslav” to national cultures: ethnic conflict and the nationalization of the public spheres of former Yugoslavia’, Res Publica-The Journal of the Belgian Political Science Association, 2, April 1997 [ISSN 0486-4700].

1996: ‘Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe; A Theoretical Perspective’ (with B. Jenkins), in B. Jenkins and S. A. Sofos (eds), Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge [ISBN 0415123127].

1996: ‘Politics, Culture and National Identity in former Yugoslavia’, in B. Jenkins and S. A. Sofos (eds), Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge [ISBN 0415123127].

1994: ‘Popular Identity and Political Culture in Post-dictatorial Greece: Towards a Cultural Approach to Populism’, in N. Demertzis (ed.) Greek Political Culture, Athens: Odysseas (in Greek) [ISBN 9602101881].

1993: ‘The Politics of Identity: Nationalism in Contemporary Greece’, in J. Amodia (ed.) The Resurgence of Nationalist Movements in Europe, Bradford (Bradford Occassional Papers No 12), (with R. Tsagarousianou).