The impact of the European Union and NATO on Greek-Turkish Relations since 1987
Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: The University of Warwick, Uluslararası İlişkiler, Uluslararası İlişkiler, Birleşik Krallık
Tez Danışmanı: David Carlton
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2004
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Özet:
The purpose of this paper is to provide a perspective on the role of institutions in inter-state
relations. As a matter of fact, it deals with the impact of the European Union (EU) and North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) on Greco-Turkish relations since 1987. With the end of
the Cold War there have been significant changes within the global system in which statecentric
approaches were highly challenged by growing influence of the institutions. Pluralistic
approaches, on the other hand, see institutions as the mediator and the means to achieve
cooperation in the international system. Institutions by linking issue areas may promote
cooperation in a stable environment; however, in the presence of a conflict between its
members, institutions can easily become ‘the object of struggle’ rather than ‘the object of
cooperation’. On the other hand, institutions i.e., the EU and NATO have a significant impact
on defusing tensions in the aftermath of Greco-Turkish crises during 1990s. The realist
institutionalism approach provides the theoretical framework to highlight these multiple,
contradictory effects of the institutions on inter-state relations and Greco-Turkish relations
present an intriguing case study to undertake this task.
The format of this paper is as follows. The first chapter presents a general overview of Greco-
Turkish relations since 1987 by analysing the changing role of institutions in the post-Cold
War era in order to underpin the multiple effects of the EU and NATO on the transition of
Greco-Turkish relations from conflict to cooperation. The second chapter gives a more
detailed account on the impact of the EU and NATO by focusing on the Cyprus dispute
between Greece and Turkey. The third chapter deals with the involvement of the EU and
NATO the dispute between Greece and Turkey over the Aegean Sea. Two critical sources of
conflict over the Aegean Sea are presented here, namely delimitation of the continental shelf
and the breadth of the territorial sea.