Greece: the imperatives of geopolitics
Lying astride the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Greece is geographically simultaneously European, Balkan, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean, while politically it has projected itself as a western European and even as a north Atlantic state. Its position has inevitably involved it with all th...
| Published in: | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1998
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/byz.1998.22.1.154 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0307013100002810 |
| Summary: | Lying astride the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Greece is geographically simultaneously European, Balkan, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean, while politically it has projected itself as a western European and even as a north Atlantic state. Its position has inevitably involved it with all the Great Powers, and all have interfered in Greek politics well within living memory. Greece‘s foreign policy during the years of the Hellenic Republic has occasionally flirted with a variety of options, though in the end it has remained constant to its relationship with the western alliance. This reluctant adherence is due in large measure to the constraints placed upon Greece by its location on the world‘s geopolitical map. Its geographical position has proven to be one of the prime determinants of Greece‘s foreign policy since the Second World War, and at no time has this been more evident than in the years of the Hellenic Republic. |
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