Sustainable and resilient political strategies. Determinant parameters that ensure effectiveness

Abstract

IntroductionWho cares about 'realist strongholds'? Who cares about the 'land of Thucydides'? In the first place, is there such a land and what would it mean? More or less obviously, the term is used for a hopefully eloquent reference to Greece. However, it is not in the intention of this article's author to offer a geoculturally reified concept, taking into account the multiplicity of 'Hellenisms' in terms of identity formation (Zacharia, 2008). With all its complexity and border variability, indeed, this piece of land -like several others- has emerged as the milieu for a variety of forms of socio-political organization: e.g. an inter-state system of city-states (the ancient classical era), an imperial system with broad cultural interaction (the Hellenistic world), an imperial system comprising it as both a political periphery and a cultural core (the Greco-Roman Synthesis), another one consisting of it eventually as both socio-political and cultural core...