ABSTRACT
In the new sub-period, the triptych history-geography-Cold War continued to form the basis of Greek foreign policy analysis. However, the emphasis now focused on a ‘deeper force’: geography. Two people played a major role in policy-making: the Prime Minister and leader of the National Radical Union party (ERE), Constantinos Karamanlis, who also was Defence Minister from October 1955 until the February 1956 election and again in 1958-61; and Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, who served as Foreign Minister from May 1956 to June 1963. Kanellopoulos also entered the government as Deputy Prime Minister early in 1959, but this time he played little role in defence policy. In 1956-61 Constantinos Tsatsos served as minister for the Prime Minister’s Office, and he was acting Foreign Minister when Averoff was away from Athens, yet he mostly dealt with Cyprus. Panayis Papaligouras was the Minister for Economic Co-ordination in 1961-63 and a man of exceptional abilities, but on foreign affairs his field was mostly European integration, not national security. Thus, Karamanlis and Averoff were the main policy-makers on foreign and security policy.
