1st Edition

Greek-Turkish Relations Theoretical Reflections

Edited By Mustafa Aydın, Kostas Ifantis Copyright 2025
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. The Burden of History, Image, Geopolitics and Misperception in the Aegean

Mustafa Aydin and Kostas Ifantis

2. A Historical Materialist Reading of the Contested Relations between Greece and Turkey

Mustafa Türkeş, Elif Uzgören and Coşkun Soysal

3. Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya

Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Chara Karagiannopoulou and Lerna K. Yanık

4. National Role Conceptions of Greek and Turkish Foreign Policies: A Bilateral Assessment

Andreas Kotelis and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou

5. The Failed Vision of a Greek–Turkish Security Community?

George Koukoudakis

6. Ontological Insecurity and the Return of the Greek-Turkish Conflicts: Reconfiguring Hagia Sophia as an Ontic Space

Bahar Rumelili and Nasuh Sofuoglu

7. Enduring Crises and Possibilities for Cooperation in Turkish-Greek Relations: A Feminist Account

Özlem Tür and Çiğdem Aydın Koyuncu

8. Drivers of Crisis in the Greek-Turkish Protracted Conflict: A Neoclassical Realist Reading

Zenonas Tziarras

Biography

Mustafa Aydın 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.