Le lobby grec et son influence sur l'élaboration de la politique étrangère grecque

Abstract

This article focuses on the transnational Greek lobby which emerged from the world large Greek diaspora. The author examines how this lobby influences the foreign policymaking in Athens in the framework of a triadic relation: the host country, the lobby itself and the country of origin. He argues that the lobby doesn't have a monolithic vision of Greek foreign policy. Some voices favour the revisionism introduced in the mid-1990's while others stay attached to its traditional patterns. Academics in particular are more nuanced, considering the modernisation or Européanisation of the Greek foreign policy as a necessity. But few of them see a profound major change of this policy in the mid-1990's, especially in terms of modernisation. Others even contest the goals fixed by such policy in areas like the Cyprus question (the Annan plan), the Aegean contention or the Balkan equation.