This book presents new themes of research regarding Greece and the Cold War, which also track corresponding trends in the international literature. Contemporary interpretations of the Cold War emphasize that it was not merely a "strategic dilemma," but simultaneously a vast conflict involving ideology, the evolution of societies, and the crisis of legitimacy of power.

The book at hand covers both dimensions, the strategic and the ideological. An additional thematic axis is the "Cold War lens": the term primarily refers to the particular interests of the superpowers, which led them to perceive the problems of the developing world through their own needs. However, such "lenses" also existed in the interpretations of the smaller members of the international system – in the case of Greece, the Cyprus issue is a clear example.

Furthermore, the study of the "cultural Cold War" has rapidly developed in recent years, and this book contains significant interventions regarding the Greek dimension of the topic. Finally, in an era where modern literature is moving swiftly in the study of the 1960s-1980s, the volume emphasizes this later phase of the Cold War, expanding the temporal boundaries of the study.