Understanding Change in Strategy

Abstract

This book is a theoretically grounded treatise of the most significant shift made since the 1930s in Greece’s foreign policy vis-à-vis Turkey, the neighboring state which was considered to be Greece’s major security threat over the course of the last thirty years, as well as of the reasons behind Greece’s major foreign policy initiatives. In particular, the decision to lift its veto and grant candidate status to Turkey at the EU Summit in Helsinki in December 1999 was the result of a paramount shift in Greece’s foreign policy that most analysts attributed to Greece’s entry into the European Community in January 1981.