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This book provides an overview of the complex and turbulent relations between Greece and Turkey, focusing on recent developments and the challenges in their bilateral relationship. It draws on a comprehensive array of international relations theories to suggest that sources of instability in the Aegean are found in security relations, identity and cultural discourses, and patriarchal and class societal structures. The chapters reflect on several questions about the role and significance of constitutive and non-constitutive elements in the Greek-Turkish policy and social arenas. They offer a better understanding of the bilateral interaction and why the Greek-Turkish relationship continue to hold the potential for traditional geopolitical antagonism and conflict, as well as why it is so hard to escape a security culture of hopelessly unresolved problems, enduring security dilemmas, crisis-prone geopolitics.
The chapters in this book discuss the historical context, including attempts at reconciliation, and examine the role of perceptions, geopolitics, and historical grievances in shaping the current situation. The book emphasizes the cyclical nature of relations, with periods of calm followed by tensions and crises. It highlights the need for a comprehensive approach to resolve the existing disputes, including the importance of confidence-building measures and a political settlement. Overall, the book underlines the complexity of Greek-Turkish relations and the challenges in achieving lasting peace and stability in the region.
This book is aimed at scholars, policymakers, and students in the fields of international relations, political science, and security studies.
The chapters in this book, except for Chapter 8, were published as a special issue of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Chapter 8 was originally published in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 The Burden of History, Image, Geopolitics and Misperception in the Aegean
- 2 A Historical Materialist Reading of the Contested Relations between Greece and Turkey
- 3 Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya
- 4 National Role Conceptions of Greek and Turkish Foreign Policies: A Bilateral Assessment
- 5 The Failed Vision of a Greek–Turkish Security Community?
- 6 Ontological Insecurity and the Return of the Greek-Turkish Conflicts: Reconfiguring Hagia Sophia as an Ontic Space
- 7 Enduring Crises and Possibilities for Cooperation in Turkish-Greek Relations: A Feminist Account
- 8. Drivers of Crisis in the Greek-Turkish Protracted Conflict: A Neoclassical Realist Reading
- Index