NATO’s First Enlargement : A Reassessment

This is a reassessment of the participation of Turkey and Greece in the Atlantic Alliance since 1952. The volume is an effort to provide a new approach to regional history and current affairs, going beyond national policies and searching a transnational perspective. It points to a highly developed state of research on Greek-Turkish perceptions and perspectives, by a community of international scholars.

This volume discusses the entry of Greece and Turkey to NATO in 1952 from the perspective of history and international relations. The chapters were originally collected in 2012 to mark the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the accession of the two states to NATO. The focus is not on the diplomatic/political events that led to the accession (a subject which has already been extensively discussed in the available bibliography), but expands on a reassessment of this event for the two states as well as for the Balkans, covering aspects of the wider post-war period and providing perspectives for the policies of Turkey, Greece and NATO until the present day. This book was originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.