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

ISBN-13: 9781032174150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

Antonis Klapsis; Constantine Arvanitopoulos; Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

Opis

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-74 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change.

Spis treści

Foreword

JOHN O. IATRIDES

 

1 Introduction

ANTONIS KLAPSIS, CONSTANTINE ARVANITOPOULOS, EVANTHIS HATZIVASSILIOU AND EFFIE G. H. PEDALIU

 

PART I: International actors

 

2 ‘Papandreou Derangement Syndrome’?: the United States and the April 1967 coup

JAMES E. 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, 1967–74

NIKOS PAPANASTASIOU

 

7 Beyond the bi-polar world: Greece’s relations with China, Israel and Africa, 1967–73

DIONYSIOS CHOURCHOULIS, MANOLIS KOUMAS AND ANASTASIOS PANOUTSOPOULOS

 

PART II: International institutions and transnational processes

 

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, 1969–79

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

 

PART III Transitions in Southern Europe: the comparative perspective

 

13 The Colonels’ coup of 1967 and the military takeovers 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

Conclusions

 

18 The Colonels’ dictatorship 1967–74: bringing in the international

MICHAEL COX

Index

O autorze

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.