The Greek-Turkish Conflict in the Aegean: Imagined Enemies (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 11
Note on Turkish Letters......Page 13
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 14
Part I: Greeks and Turks: History Shrouded in National Myth......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 The Perennial Imagination......Page 20
The Greek narrative......Page 21
The Turkish narrative......Page 25
Beyond the idea of perennial conflict......Page 30
3 The Modernist Imagination: A 19th Century Conflict......Page 46
The Greek Revolution......Page 47
Developments in the Ottoman Empire and Greece (1830–50s)......Page 52
Developments in the Ottoman Empire and Greece (1860–80s)......Page 56
Coexistence still alive......Page 58
The prelude......Page 67
The Balkan Wars and the First World War......Page 69
The Greek-Turkish War......Page 71
The endgame in Asia Minor......Page 75
The respective national narratives......Page 76
The landmark of Lausanne......Page 81
The aftermath: friends at last......Page 82
Clouds on the horizon and renewed friendship......Page 83
The Cyprus debacle......Page 84
Part II: The Aegean: Conflict and Diplomacy......Page 90
The beginning: continental shelf, territorial sea......Page 92
From the 1974 Cyprus crisis to 1977......Page 96
The Montreux summit......Page 110
The Greek-Turkish dialogue (1978–September 1981)......Page 113
An assessment of the Greek-Turkish dialogue......Page 122
The new setting......Page 131
The March 1987 crisis and the day after......Page 135
The spirit of Davos......Page 138
An assessment and the Greek enigma......Page 141
From a standstill to traditional antagonism......Page 147
The Imia/Kardak crisis......Page 149
Cautious steps that came to naught......Page 151
The unexpected thaw of 1999......Page 159
Explaining the unexpected......Page 163
The Aegean dialogue: the small package......Page 166
Détente running out of steam (2004–9)......Page 169
Part III: The Legal Dimension of the Aegean Conflict......Page 180
11 The Continental Shelf......Page 182
The respective arguments and their limitations......Page 183
A procedural dispute and its misreading......Page 185
Adjudication and case law......Page 187
The Aegean continental shelf: delimitation?......Page 189
Developments in international law and the stance of Greece and Turkey......Page 196
The Turkish case......Page 198
Casus belli......Page 200
International law and practice......Page 202
In lieu of a conclusion......Page 203
International law, Greece and Turkey......Page 208
Assessing the Greek case......Page 210
A reappraisal......Page 212
Lemnos and Samothrace......Page 216
Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Ikaria......Page 218
The Dodecanese Islands......Page 219
Concluding remarks......Page 220
15 Imia/Kardak and the Grey Zones......Page 224
Flight Information Regions......Page 229
NATO operational control......Page 232
Part IV: The Crux of the Problem......Page 236
17 What is to be Done?......Page 238
The Aegean dispute on ice: enter economic cooperation......Page 239
The short cut: resolving the Aegean conflict......Page 243
The long haul: identity and national narratives......Page 246
A quasi-conclusion: the Aegean conflict as a paradox......Page 257
Bibliography......Page 265
Index......Page 288