NATO’s First Enlargement

Evanthis Hatzivassiliou is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Greece and the Cold War: Frontline State, 1952–1967 (2006) and NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Analysis and Reporting (2014). Dimitrios Triantaphyllou is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is also the Director of the Center for International and European Studies (CIES). Some of his publications include Turkish Foreign Policy in the Era of the AKP: Towards a Pax Ottoman? [in Greek] (2010); The Security Context in the Black Sea Region (2010); and The European Union and the Black Sea: The State of Play (2015).

1. Apropos NATO’s first enlargement 2. Greek–Turkish relations in an era of regional and global change 3. Turkey’s quest for NATO membership: the institutionalization of the Turkish–American alliance 4. Greek perceptions of NATO during the Cold War 5. Revisiting NATO’s stabilizing role in south-eastern Europe: the Cold War experience and the longue durée 6. NATO and Turkey in the post-Cold War world: between abandonment and entrapment 7. The NATO–EU–Turkey trilogy: the impact of the Cyprus conundrum 8. The evolving security environment in the eastern Mediterranean: is NATO still a relevant actor?