Rhetoric and Reality in the Aegean: U.S. Policy Options Toward Greece and Turkey

Abstract

June 1985 has raised serious questions in U.S. government circles about the direction of Greece's foreign policy and its implications for U.S. policy toward Greece, Turkey, and nato's southern flank. What are Papandreou's intentions? Has his rhetoric against the United States, which he characterized in 1984 as a "metropolis of imperialism," been a political tactic, intended primarily for domestic consumption; or did he mean what he said in 1981 when he pledged to remove U.S. bases from Greece and withdraw Greece from the nato Alliance?