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Dimitris Keridis
ABSTRACT
At the international-systemic level, the disappearance of the Soviet
threat removed a powerful firebreak in the escalatory ladder of arising
Greek-Turkish crises and diminished the incentive of outsiders to intervene
to dampen tensions. At the regional level, the disintegration of Yugoslavia
and the Soviet Union have provided the ground for an expansion of
Greek-Turkish antagonism to the Balkans and the Caucasus and more recently
the Middle East. At the local-national level, both Greece and Turkey are
experiencing serious and profound changes at home as they try to cope with
the challenge of globalization and economic and political
``pluralization.'' Greek-Turkish antagonism is a major impediment against
domestic modernization since it reinforces nationalism, protectionism and
introversion, puts reformers on the defensive and wastes precious
resources, needed to smooth economic transition from a corporatist to a
market economy.
Dimitris Keridis: Biographical Note
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