ABSTRACT
Greece is often seen as a special case in the European Union because of its history, geography and culture, which all provide for ‘a very fragile security environment’ (Kavakas 2000: 144). Its foreign policy does not escape from such a context either. Moreover, it has been argued that it ‘hardly conforms to any known models of making foreign policy. It is an idiosyncratic model peculiar to Greece’s political, cultural and historic environment’ (Ioakimidis 1999a: 141).
