The Greek Junta and the International System: A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74 / Edition 1

by Antonis Klapsis, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Effie G. H. Pedaliu

Overview

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 anti-modernist force, failed to cope with an evolving international agenda and the movement towards international cooperation. Denouncing it became a rallying point both for international organizations and for human rights activists, and it enabled the EEC to underscore the notion that democracy was an integral characteristic of the European identity.

This volume is an original in-depth study of an under-researched subject and the multiple interactions of a complex era. It is divided into three sections: Part I deals with the interaction of the Colonels with state actors; Part II deals with the responses of international organizations and the rising transnational human rights agenda for which the Greek junta became a totemic rallying point; and Part III compares and contrasts the transitions to democracy in Southern Europe, and analyses the different models of transition and region-building, and how they intersected with attempts to foster a European identity. The Greek dictatorship may have been a parochial military regime, but its rise and fall interacted with signifi cant international trends and can therefore serve as a salient case study for promoting a better understanding of international and European trends during the 1960s and 1970s.

This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War studies, international history, foreign policy, transatlantic relations and International Relations, in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138344112
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/21/2020
Series:	Cold War History
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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