Greece and the Cold War: Front Line State, 1952-1967

by Hatzivassiliou; Evanthis

• ISBN13: 9780415396646
• ISBN10: 0415396646
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The book deals with Greek policy in the cold war from the country's accession to NATO in 1952 until the imposition of the colonels dictatorship in 1967. The book is divided in three parts: 1952-55; 1955-63; 1963-67. Each part deals with Greek foreign policy analysis; threat perception; the NATO connection (including Greek-US relations, the rise of anti-Americanism in 1955-58 and in 1964-67, the economic dimension of security and the issue of US military aid); Greek policy towards the Soviet bloc; and the regional dimension, mainly Greek policy towards Turkey and Yugoslavia, and (for the 1964-67 years) the Cyprus crisis which greatly complicated Greek security obligations.

Author Biography

Evanthis Hatzivassiliou is assistant professor or Contemporary History at the University of Athens.

Table of Contents

List of tables	xi
Foreword by Theodore A. Couloumbis	xii
Acknowledgements	xiv
Abbreviations	xv
General map	xvii
Introduction	1	(14)
PART I The era of regional initiatives, 1952-55	15	(40)
1 Attempting to adjust to the post-war world	17	(7)
2 A new NATO member, 1952-55	24	(12)
3 The regional balance: the tripartite Balkan pacts	36	(7)
4 Greece and peaceful co-existence	43	(7)
5 Disaster in 1955	50	(5)
PART II The era of functionalism, 1955-63	55	(68)
6 The search for a long-term strategy	57	(9)
7 New security problems	66	(14)
8 Functionalism in action	80	(18)
9 The limits of functionalism: security and detente	98	(9)
10 The regional aspect of functionalism: Yugoslavia, Turkey, Cyprus	107	(16)
PART III The era of multiple fronts, 1963-67	123	(61)
11 Facing new challenges	125	(16)
12 Multiple fronts	141	(19)
13 Maximalism and dead-end: the Cyprus entanglement	160	(14)
14 The effort to adjust Greece's Eastern policy	174	(7)
15 The mid-1960's: a re-evaluation	181	(3)
Conclusions	184	(3)
Notes	187	(31)
List of sources	218	(3)
Bibliography	221	(2)
Index	223