Greece and Turkey in the 20th century

Greece and Turkey are the two lungs of a living body whose trachea is made up of the Aegean Sea. Since Antiquity, since the Trojan War, this body has struggled for its survival which can only be accomplished by preserving the unity of the two shores of this closed sea, at the same time as a passage, towards the Mediterranean, of the Black Sea to Crete, across the Straits. Its planetary strategic importance is such that for thousands of years, both inside and outside this geopolitical formation, the powers have been struggling to gain control over it, a struggle that history has called the Question of 'East.

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Historien, turcologue, sinologue et géopolitologue grec. Professeur de relations internationales à l'université d'Ottawa (Canada) depuis 1970. Il est membre de la Société royale du Canada depuis 1999. Il est également poète de langues française et grecque. On a écrit de lui qu'il était "l'un des trois plus importants géopolitologues" dans le monde.