Browsing by Author "Ifantis, Kostas"
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Greece's Strategy and Perceptions towards Turkey: The End of Consensus and the Return of History?
The paper focuses on the impact of the crisis on the Greek public debate on perception of and strategy towards Turkey. The analysis is placed in the context of a strategic consensus that was ruptured during the crisis and the lack of bipartisanship on the country's security preferences. Although Athens and Ankara have enjoyed an unusually long period of calm waters in the Aegean from 1999 to 2016 the last two years have produced the familiar aggressive rhetoric and mutual mistrust. With the bilateral ...
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Introduction: A Note on Populism in Crisis-ridden Greece
Authors:Ifantis, Kostas; Triantaphyllou, Dimitrios
Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2018)
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POST-HEGEMONIC (DIS)ORDER AND REGIIONAL BALANCING STRATEGIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Following the so-called Arab Spring, the strategic situation in the Middle East has been one of disorder. A series of critical, complex and interrelated security failures have resulted in chaos and bloodshed unprecedented even for a region with Middle East's history and legacy. The demand for intervention has been high but the response has been very low. In such an unchartered and rapidly deteriorating regional security setting, this paper argues that the conspicuous absence of US hegemonic ...
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The US and Turkey in search of regional strategy: Towards asymptotic trajectories
Authors:Ifantis, Kostas; Galariotis, Ioannis
Publisher and Date:(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2014)Security relations with the US have been critical for Turkey. Cold War strategic imperatives dictated typical bandwagoning policies although disagreements and frictions were present at times. In the 2000s a combination of domestic developments and rapidly changing regional security patterns has resulted in a more assertive Turkish regional security policy which for many represents a departure from traditional Kemalist principles. This article attempts to assess the current course of Turkish regional ...