ABSTRACT
The various Great Powers exercised influence through military and diplomatic means as well as through economic pressure in the form of loans and grants. A chronology of modern Greek politics would reveal few major crises or policy landmarks that were not related to foreign pressure, developed in response to an external crisis, or manufactured to appear as nationalist issues. The patron-client relationships so endemic within Greece also shape the country’s foreign policy vision. The Greek public seems not to realize that international politics requires countries to constantly renew their political and economic relations with other countries because the system itself changes. The Bavarian prince who ascended to the throne of Greece, King Otho, faced an impossible dilemma. Internal dissatisfactions and unrest pushed him to try to satisfy domestic nationalist sentiments calling for territorial expansion while also trying to comply with the interests of Britain and France for stability in the eastern Mediterranean.
