NATO's first enlargement : a reassessment / edited by Evanthis Hatzivassiliou and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou.

"The chapters in this book were originally published in Southeastern European and Black Sea Studies, volume 12, issue 4 (December 2012)"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 that 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"--Page i.

1. Introduction : Apropos NATO’s first enlargement / Evanthis Hatzivassiliou and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou -- 2. Greek–Turkish relations in an era of regional and global change / F. Stephen Larrabee -- 3. Turkey’s quest for NATO membership : the institutionalization of the Turkish–American alliance / Şuhnaz Yılmaz -- 4. Greek perceptions of NATO during the Cold War / Dionysios Chourchoulis and Lykourgos Kourkouvelas -- 5. Revisiting NATO’s stabilizing role in south-eastern Europe : the Cold War experience and the longue durée / Evanthis Hatzivassiliou -- 6. NATO and Turkey in the post-Cold War world : between abandonment and entrapment / Serhat Güvenç and Soli Özel -- 7. The NATO–EU–Turkey trilogy : the impact of the Cyprus conundrum / Sinem Akgul and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou -- 8. The evolving security environment in the eastern Mediterranean : is NATO still a relevant actor ? / Thanos Dokos.