2015-16 Seminar Series

Still Europeanized?: Greek Foreign Policy During the Eurozone Crisis

Abstract

This presentation examined whether and how key aspects of Greek foreign policy have been transformed in the years of the crisis, and especially the relationship between Greek foreign policy interests and practices and the EU framework. Foreign policy has been a little-researched area in terms of the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the Greek polity. Yet, given that the crisis has affected precisely Greece’s relationship with its main strategic anchor of the last 20 years – Europe – it is surprising how little attention the question of the evolving relationship between Greek foreign policy and the European framework has received. The empirical focus of this presentation was on two of Greece’s most significant bilateral relations (Turkey and Russia), and on two areas of Greece's external relations that are of increasing importance in recent years (energy and migration). These are all areas where the European framework has played a major role in the conduct of Greek foreign policy, but where tensions have appeared or intensified in the last years. The presentation tried to uncover specific mechanisms and pathways that link the crisis with shifts in the relationship between Greek and EU foreign policy in these areas.
 

Biography

Angelos Chryssogelos is a National Bank of Greece postdoctoral fellow in the LSE Hellenic Observatory. He holds a PhD in political science from the European University Institute in Florence. Prior to joining the LSE he was a fellow in the Europe Programme of Chatham House. He has previously taught in the universities of Antwerp and Limerick and has worked in the Clingendael Institute in The Hague and the Martens Centre in Brussels. His research interests lie in European and Greek politics and foreign policy.

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