Greece-US security ties and the deepening bonds between Athens and Washington
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Expert Alan Makovsky, who was recently in Greece, joins The Greek Current to talk about the progress he is seeing in Greece-US security tie – which he described in an interview in Kathimerini as “head spinning” – and the importance of an expanded US presence in the northern Greek port of Alexandroupoli.
Makovsky is a senior fellow for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress, and has worked on Turkey and the region in several capacities, including as a senior staff member on the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives and at the State Department.