This book contributes to the celebration of the successful completion of 200 years since the declaration of our national existence and independence.

It shows that the modern Greek experience of civil conflicts related to national integration is merely one case among many others, governed by the same general necessity. Every nation goes through a process known as "national integration." This usually involves liberation from "foreign" oppression and unification within the framework of an independent nation-state.

However, this process inevitably entails dispute and conflict – conflict of ideas, as well as conflict of interests. Ultimately, similar to the head of Janus, the other aspect of national integration is, by necessity, civil conflict among fellow nationals – sometimes with self-destructive consequences, as occurred most recently in 1974.