The Europeanisation of Greek Foreign Policy: a Critical Appraisal

This article presents a critique of the existing consensus in the academic literature of a successful, completed and visible Europeanisation of Greek foreign policy. It is argued that such a view should be qualified. First, at least three different dimensions to the Europeanisation of foreign policy are put forward. Second, Greece’s membership is split into three successive periods (1981-1985, 1985- 1995, and since 1996) and it is shown that only the first dimension of Europeanisation is visible - and this only in the most recent past (namely, since 1996). Therefore the Europeanisation of Greek foreign policy has still a long way to go before it is completed.