Greece and Turkey’s Western institutional membership may be Cold War relics

Evidence

While much attention has been devoted to the expansion of the European Union and NATO, the cultural reconfiguration of these organizations also raises the issue of their possible contraction. One non-Western country, Greece, is a member of both organizations, and another, Turkey, is a member of NATO and an applicant for Union membership. These relationships were products of the Cold War. Do they have any place in the post-Cold War world of civilizations? — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 438

Categorization

• QUESTION: This dangling question is prescient and unresolved — worth chasing how Huntington’s civilization logic plays out for Greece and especially Turkey decades later.