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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 is aimed at scholars, policymakers, and students in the fields of international relations, political science, and security studies.
List of contents
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
About the author
Mustafa Ayd¿n is Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University, President of the International Relations Council Turkey, Coordinator of Global Academy, and Co-Coordinator of the Greek Turkish Forum. His areas of interest include international politics, foreign policy, security issues related to the Caucasus, Black Sea, Middle East, and Turkish foreign and security policies.
Kostas Ifantis is Professor of International Relations at Panteion University of Athens. He is also the Director of the Institute of International Relations. His most recent publication is
Arms Racing, Military Build-Ups, and Dispute Intensity: Evidence from the Greek-Turkish Rivalry, 1985-2020 (with I. Choulis and M. Mehrl) in Defence and Peace Economics, 2022.
