Foreign Policy Under Austerity Greece's Return to Normality?
This book examines the continuities and substantial transformations in Greek foreign policy before the beginning and during the unfolding of the economic crisis. Although up until now, significant attention has been cast on the rise of the neo-Nazi moveme
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SPYRIDON N. LITSAS & ARISTOTLE TZIAMPIRIS
Foreign Policy Under Austerity
Spyridon N. Litsas • Aristotle Tziampiris Editors
Foreign Policy Under Austerity Greece’s Return to Normality?
Editors Spyridon N. Litsas University of Macedonia Thessaloniki, Greece
Aristotle Tziampiris University of Piraeus Greece
ISBN 978-1-137-57581-4 ISBN 978-1-137-57582-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57582-1
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FOREWORD
Taken as a synthetic whole, the chapters in this volume consider the ongoing life of Greek foreign policy from the onset of deep austerity in early 2010, since which time 13 sequential austerity packages have been negotiated and signed. How have these ever tightened circumstances been reflected in Greek foreign policy? Surprisingly little scholarly attention has been given to this question—until the publication of this volume, which gives it comprehensive and multi-dimensional attention, to most satisfactory effect. Before Greece’s debt crisis, Greece had been one of the more broadly pro-European countries in Europe. Greece’s own national foreign policy interests were not entirely subsumed in European interests, to be sure, but they were largely aligned with them—and national interests (such as Cyprus) were pursued through a fundamentally European framework. Over the course of the crisis, though, this affection for and gravitation towards Europe and its institutions have, to say the least, waned. Over the past six years our s
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