Past and Present? Greece in International Arbitration in the Twentieth Century

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Past and Present? Greece in International Arbitration in the Twentieth Century. _x000D_ _x000D_ Can international arbitration help a small country, like Greece, resolve interstate disputes and normalize as a result its international relations? This research will provide a thorough presentation of the various instances during the twentieth century in which Greece resorted to international arbitration. It will describe the results of Greece’s presence before the Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, the League of Nations and the Permanent Court of International Justice, in an attempt to manifest the importance arbitration procedures held in Athens’ rapprochement to its former belligerent parties, which also included two ‘traditional’ enemies, namely Turkey and Bulgaria. _x000D_ After 1945, arbitration fell largely ‘out of favor’, remaining however a useful tool in the effort to partially resolve the consequences of World War II. The article documents Greece’s resort to international arbitration in order to mainly raise its war claims against Germany but also to settle minor disputes with other states. Finally, the research discusses if and how international arbitration could potentially play an essential role in settling the war claims that Athens raised after the German reunification in 1990 and remain still active even today. _x000D_ Through the Greek experience, the close interaction between international arbitration procedures and high politics will become clear. _x000D_

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