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The Greek Junta and the International System A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change. The policies of the major nation-states in both East and West were determined by realistic Cold War considerations. At the same time, the Greek junta, a profoundly... Read more

Foreword John O. Iatrides

1. Introduction Antonis Klapsis, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, and Effie G. H. Pedaliu

2. ‘Papandreou Derangement Syndrome’? The United States and the April 1967 coup James Edward Miller

3. Greece in the tapes: Nixon and the junta Harry Papasotiriou 

4. France and the Greek Colonels Maurice Vaïsse

5. Italy and the Greek military regime from the 1967 coup d’ état to the fall of the dictatorship Antonio Varsori

6. The Bavarian Greek Radio programme for Greek migrants and its impact on Greek-German relations, 1967-1974 Nikos Papanastasiou

7. Beyond the bi-polar world: Greece’s relations with China, Israel and Africa, 1967-1973 Dionysios Chourchoulis, Emmanuel Koumas, and Anastasios Panoutsopoulos

8. A clash of cultures? The UN, the Council of Europe and the Greek dictators Effie G. H. Pedaliu

9. Taking a stance: The European Community and the Greek junta Eirini Karamouzi

10. The challenges of modernism: Greece, environmentalism and the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969-1979 Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

11. ‘The situation in Greece’: American human rights activism in the wake of the 1967 coup Sarah B. Snyder

12. The Beckets vs. the Colonels: A study in the micro-evolution of global human rights activism in the ‘long 1960s’ Konstantina Maragkou

13. The Colonels’ coup of 1967 and the military take-overs in Turkey in 1960 and 1971 Mogens Pelt

14. International dimensions of democratization: revisiting the Spanish case Charles Powell

15. The Cold War and the Portuguese Revolution: three paradigms of an exemplary case study Mario Del Pero

16. The Greek transition to democracy Antonis Klapsis

17. Praetorian military regimes: the Greek case Constantine Arvanitopoulos

18. The Colonel’s Dictatorship 1967-1974: Internal and International Dimensions Michael Cox

Biography



Antonis Klapsis is Assistant Professor of Diplomacy and International Organization at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece.



Constantine Arvanitopoulos is the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA.



Evanthis Hatzivassiliou is Professor of Post-war History at the University of Athens, Greece.



Effi e G. H. Pedaliu is a Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS, UK.