Common Dangers Evolving into Common Problems in the Mediterranean

Authors : Oral SANDER

Pages : 21-27

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000081

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Publication Date : 1977-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :It goes vvithout saying that, ali through known history, peoples and nations cooperated in the face of common dangers. İt is stili common knovvledge that a great proportion of cooperation in this regard had ceased to function once the imminent danger is över. Who, but a few historians, can remember the quiet disappearence of a multitude of alliances of the 19th and early 20th centuries into complete obüvion, follovving sometimes subtle but more often drastic changes in the international system. Who could foresee back in nineteenfifties that the Balkan Alliance among Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey, would turn into a `dead` document a few days after its formation, due to the differing perceptions of the signatories of the Soviet challenge and to the discord betvveen Turkey and Greece on a completely nevv ground. But once common dangers become common problems, then cooperation among partners prove to be more lasting and common efforts tovvard their solution foster an ever-insreasing understanding.  
Keywords : Common Danger, Problem, Mediterranean