A compelling history that alerts the reader to the geopolitics of the Greek world and the word. Absorbing in its details while eye-opening in its transnational conceptualization.

Gonda Van Steen, Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King's College London, UK

Interweaving an account of Greek foreign policy in the wake of Greece's civil war with the latest International Relations theory, Alexander Kazamias achieves the impossible: a solid work of history, based on extensive archival research, which is located within a sophisticated conceptual framework.

Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History, UCL, UK

In this trenchant analysis of Greek foreign policy, Alexander Kazamias shows how resurgent irredentism, far from being independent of colonialism, could fatally fuse with the self-interested goals of a declining but still massively powerful British imperium and the virulent anti-communism of the Cold War. Rejecting political and cultural stereotypes, Kazamias crafts a disturbingly credible account of how this toxic ideological brew has continued to plague Greek foreign relations while concomitantly condemning Cyprus to geopolitical limbo. He thereby elucidates the long-term effects of colonialism and its reincarnation in postcolonial hegemonies.

Michael Herzfeld, author of Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage