He is an Associate Lecturer in Modern European History at Lancaster University, and the University of Manchester. His research centres on the history of war and conflict in Southern and South-Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the history of ethnic cleansing, paramilitarism and nation-building during the ‘European Civil War’ and the Cold War periods. His first monograph, A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People’s Armies, was published by Manchester University Press in 2016.
A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People’s Armies (Manchester University Press, 2016)
The Far Right in Greece. Paramilitarism, Organized Crime and the Rise of ‘Golden Dawn’. Comparative Southeast European Studies 66 (4), 503-531
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2015). Violence, resistance and collaboration in a Greek borderland: The case of the Muslim Chams of Epirus. Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2016). A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War. Manchester University Press.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2016). The rise and origins of the People’s Armies. En A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War (pp. 13–70). Manchester University Press.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2016). Patriots and scoundrels: Motivation and recruitment in the People’s Armies. En A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War (pp. 71–114). Manchester University Press.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2016). Not by bread alone: Combat, everyday life and the formation of guerrilla identities. En A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War (pp. 115–154). Manchester University Press.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2016). Cause, comrades and faith: Morale in the guerrilla armies. En A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War (pp. 155–200). Manchester University Press.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2016). A society at war: Guerrilla governance and everyday life in Free Greece. En A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War (pp. 201–256). Manchester University Press.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2016). 'Land of Kapedani: Brigandage, paramilitarism and nation-building in 20th century Greece'. Balkan Studies, 51(1), 34–67.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2017). “‘Political Bandits’: Nation-building, patronage and the making of the Greek deep state”. Balkanistica, 30(1), 37–64.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2018). The Far Right in Greece: Paramilitarism, organized crime and the rise of ‘Golden Dawn’. Comparative Southeast European Studies, 66(4), 503–531.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2019). Paramilitarism, politics and organized crime during the Greek civil war (1945–1949). Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 43(2), 262–286.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2019). Between politics and organized crime: Paramilitarism during the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). CAS Sofia Working Paper Series, 1–28.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2019). An international civil war: Greece 1943–1949 by Andre Gerolymatos, and: The Greek Civil War: Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy by Spyridon Plakoudas. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 37(2), 431–440.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2021). Men of the gun and men of the state: Military entrepreneurship in the shadow of the civil war. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 3(2).
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2021). The lords of war: Violence, governance and nation-building in north-western Greece. European Review of History, 28(1), 50–73.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2022). The will to fight: Combat, morale, and the experience of National Army soldiers during the Greek Civil War, 1946–1949. International Journal of Military History and Historiography, 44(1), 103–135.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2023). Paramilitarism, social transformation, and the nation in Greece during the Civil War and its aftermath. Slavic Review, 82(1), 6–27.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2024). ‘To live by the gun’: Food insecurity, ethnic violence and political mobilization in occupied Greece (1941–1944). En Food, scarcity and power in South Eastern Europe during the Second World War.
Tsoutsoumpis, S. (2025). The logic of violence during the Greek Civil War 1946–1949. En Violence and propaganda in European civil wars: Dimensions of conflict 1917–1920