ABSTRACT
Since the end of the Cold War, the non-pole powers of the ‘south’ as defined in this volume have faced a number of common challenges with important consequences for their foreign policy behaviour. These challenges have helped reshape relations among the southern European states and between southern European non-pole powers and the EuroAtlantic pole. Based on an analysis of the three major powers in the region, this chapter will examine the evolution of foreign policies among the non-pole states in southern Europe: Portugal and Greece (core insiders), Malta and Cyprus (near-core insiders) and Turkey (a would-be insider). Moreover, it will assess the role that Mediterranean initiatives are playing in these foreign policies. For purely pragmatic reasons (see Chapter 1) the Irish near-core insider will also be included in the present chapter, although hardly belonging geographically to the south.
