Understanding Greece's new foreign policy towards the Arab world: Instrumentalisation, balancing, and emerging opportunities
Understanding Greece's new foreign policy towards the Arab world: Instrumentalisation, balancing, and emerging opportunities
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了解希腊对阿拉伯世界的新外交政策：工具化、平衡和新机遇
DOI：
10.1080/13629395.2022.2148193
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Grigoriadis I
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作者：
Grigoriadis I
尽管希腊在东地中海历史和政治中处于中心地位，但该国与阿拉伯世界关系的演变、特征和基本原理尚未确定。本文考察了二战后希腊在四个关键时期（1945-80; 1981-89; 1990-2018; 2019年起）对阿拉伯世界的外交政策。它建立在一个历史制度主义的方法，认为希腊与阿拉伯世界的关系仍然是该国外交战略的支柱，尽管工具在希腊的两个主要的外交政策目标在二战后时期：保持该国的西方取向和导航的希腊-土耳其关系的变迁。因此，希腊政策制定者传统上以利润最大化的方式与阿拉伯世界接触，寻求扩大希腊与西方大国的关系，或回应土耳其在该地区的举措。本文旨在首次系统地概述希腊对阿拉伯世界的外交战略，强调路径依赖在评估希腊对中东的外交政策举措中的重要性。它还试图通过提供必要的历史细微差别和比较视角，将希腊目前试图在整个地区发挥积极作用的努力置于背景之中。
Despite Greece’s centrality in Eastern Mediterranean history and politics, the evolution, characteristics, and rationale behind the country’s relations with the Arab world have yet to be identified. This article examines post-World War II Greek foreign policy towards the Arab world across four key periods (1945–80; 1981–89; 1990–2018; and 2019 onwards). It builds on a historical institutionalist approach to argue that Greece’s relationship with the Arab world has remained a pillar of the country’s diplomatic strategy, albeit instrumentalised in terms of Greece’s two main foreign policy goals in the post-World War II era: maintaining the country’s Western orientation and navigating the vicissitudes of Greek-Turkish relations. Thus, the Arab world has traditionally been approached by Greek policymakers in a profit maximization manner that sought to either amplify Greece's relationship with Western powers or respond to Turkish initiatives in the region. Aiming to provide the first systematic overview of Greek diplomatic strategy towards the Arab world, the article highlights the importance of path dependence in evaluating Greek foreign policy initiatives towards the Middle East. It also seeks to contextualize Greece's current attempts to forge a proactive role across the region by providing necessary historic nuance and a comparative perspective.