After the dissolution of the USSR, the denial of the prospect of an "American century" seemed doomed to failure, both as a scientific assessment and as a political proposition. Especially in our so-called "West," the certainties of a unipolar world, of a new empire, were strong.

Greek politics fully aligned with Washington's demands, following the brief decade of the '80s and the efforts to gain autonomy in Greek foreign policy regarding the US and NATO. Thirty years later, nothing is the same. The war in Ukraine is the prelude to an extended war of attrition for global hegemony.

As the tectonic plates of international relations shift and clash, and while Greece and Cyprus find themselves in a hot zone, they continue to operate based on the post-Cold War doctrines of internalizing dependence. This book seeks to contribute to the discussion on the necessary structural and strategic transformation of the two states' international relations, aiming for an international politics of principles, grounded in new realities.