ABSTRACT

This chapter argues on the basis of the material it surveys that there are limits to the Greek-American lobby's effectiveness and range, especially compared to its heyday in the 1970s, the present era of globalisation and transnationalism not withstanding. The rally's main message was Macedonia is only Greek' and that epitomised the Greek orientation of the campaign. There is a substantial body of recent literature pointing towards the increased importance of diasporic and ethnic groups functioning as important transnational actors in the post-Cold War era of globalisation. The conservative political inclination of the Greek-American leaders did not make them well disposed towards PASOK but the prospect of Athens' anti-Americanism making any type of United States-Greek relationship redundant was particularly worrying. The end of the Cold War paved the way for a wide-ranging re-discovery' by the Greeks of their diaspora, past and present, and this spawned a range of cultural and intellectual projects.