 Intermediate Region The Eurasian continent, of which Europe is but one of its peninsulas, comprises, due to historical events spanning thousands of years, three vast civilisational areas: a) The West or Western Europe, which today also includes North and South America, Australia and New Zealand; b) The East or Far East, which includes three peninsulas: India, Southeast Asia (with Indonesia) and China (with Korea and Japan); c) The Intermediate Region, which partakes of both the East and the West. |
Chart of the main characteristics of the two big parties in the History of Greece and Turkey
| WESTERN PARTY | EASTERN PARTY | ||
| Modernists | Traditionalists | ||
| Social Background | Upper middle class of the bourgeoisie. Intellectuals. Workers. | Lower middle class of the bourgeoisie. Small owning farmers. | Big landowners. Upper middle class of the bourgeoisie, victims of Western penetration. Peasants. |
| Ideological Stand | Bourgeois cosmopolitanism with Workers’ internationalism. French type nationalism. Western Renaissance rationalism. Do not recognize the existence of the Intermediate Region. | Rigas Pheraios’s Balkan-Asiatic Hellenism. Ottomanism. German type nationalism. Neutralism. Both sides equaly balanced Hellenoturkism. Rousseauism. Deep attachment to people’s psyche. | Byzantine-Ottoman Ecumenism. Imperial Hellenoturkism. Panislamism. Attachment to the Intermediate Region concept. |
| Political and Economic Regime | Constitutional Monarchy or Parliamentary Republic with Economic Liberalism or Dictatorship of the Proletariat with collectivism. | Authoritarian regime basically antiroyalist: The monarchy is abolished or is symbolically maintained along with Statism and Solidarism. | Absolute monarchy with mercantilism. |
