Konstantino’s Article The Imia Crisis 30 Years On: The Perils of Self-Abnegation:

https://polity24.substack.com/p/the-imia-crisis-30-years-on-the-perils?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnM90R0PrllMgOt1P1i8N_LQOWrOMGyUnLbNPkBAt769ZhJD0WZFsFmCKAn2E_aem_PWjB5Fg9aM06ORwXoQBmKQ&triedRedirect=true

Hey everyone! For today’s episode I was able to bring onto the pod Konstantinos Kolokotronis. Konstantinos is an independent journalist and researcher who focusses on geopolitics and contemporary power politics in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.

The discussion we had was on an article Konstantinos wrote titled ‘The Imia Crisis 30 Years On: The Perils of Self-Abnegation:” which zooms in on a couple of tiny Greek islets, that a little over three decades ago it became a flashpoint that nearly led two NATO allies to outright war. At the end of the conflict, three Greek officers lost their lives, and to this day the islets of Imia remain off-limits, oddly enough, even to the Hellenic Republic that they belong to.

We covered a variety of topics, like international law, the realist view of international relations, Greek security concerns, treaties that outline the status of these islands (the Treaty of Laussane, the 1947 Paris Peace treaty, etc etc) Turkish aggression and expansionism in the Aegean, and the limits of International law, in a world without a global police.

Please check out Konstantinos’s work on substack.com/@polity21blog where he’s written about A LOT of interesting articles on topics like this, and support his work.

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Konstantino’s Article The Imia Crisis 30 Years On: The Perils of Self-Abnegation:

https://polity24.substack.com/p/the-imia-crisis-30-years-on-the-perils?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnM90R0PrllMgOt1P1i8N_LQOWrOMGyUnLbNPkBAt769ZhJD0WZFsFmCKAn2E_aem_PWjB5Fg9aM06ORwXoQBmKQ&triedRedirect=true

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