1969 ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe

Konstantinos (Kostis) Kornetis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Children of the Dictatorship (2013, winner of the Edmund Keeley Book Award) and co-editor of Rethinking Democratization in Spain, Greece and Portugal (2019). Víctor Fernández Soriano teaches global and contemporary history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and ESPOL Lille. He has been an associate researcher at the University of Luxembourg and Humboldt University Berlin. He is the author of Le fusil et l'olivier. Les droits de l'Homme face aux dictatures méditerranéennes (2013).Kristine Kjaersgaard is Associate Professor in Contemporary History at University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. She has written books and articles on Denmark in international organisations. Nicolas Manitakis is Associate Professor in History at the University of Athens, Greece. He has co-edited a volume on the history of postwar Greek student migration to France.Alexandros Nafpliotis holds a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and has been a Research Associate at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy and the National Hellenic Research Foundation, as well as Maastricht University and the University of Luxembourg. He is the author of Britain and the Greek Colonels (2012).Anna Papaeti is a musicologist and researcher who has held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Goettingen, Germany.

• IntroductionPart 1 - The Applicant States versus the Greek Junta1. The Scandinavian Complaints, Hanne Hagtvedt Vik (University of Oslo, Norway) and Kristine Kjærsgaard (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)2. From Reluctance to Acceptance: The Netherlands, the Greek Case, and the Boomerang Effect of theConvention, Wiebe Hommes (Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance, The Netherlands)3. Greece as Cause in Danish Public Opinion and Politics, Mogens Pelt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Part 2 - The International Impact of the Greek Case4. The Greek Case in the Council of Europe and the Role of West, Germany Dimitrios K. Apostolopoulos (Academy of Athens, Greece)5. Human Rights and Colonels Lies. The Italian Perspective, Rigas Raftopoulos (Roma Tre University, Italy)6. The Impact of the Greek Case on Francoist Spain, Magda Fytili (Hellenic Open University, Greece)7. The European Community and the Greek Case, Ronald Janse (Open University of the Netherlands)Part 3 - Anti-Junta Resistance and the Greek Case8. The Greek Case in the Context of the Cold War, Stan Draenos (Independent Scholar, Greece)9. The Greek Case at Strasbourg: The Battle for Witnesses, Nicolas Manitakis (University of Athens, Greece)10. Reconstituting the Networks: Anti-Dictatorial Correspondence on the Greek Case through the ASKICollections, Antonis Sarantidis (University of Athens, Greece)Part 4 - International Institutions and Solidarity Movements11. Amnesty International and the Greek Crisis of 1967-8, Tom Buchanan (University of Oxford, UK)12. Europe’s Vietnam? International Solidarity Movements against the Greek Junta from a Global Perspective, Kim Christiaens (University of Leuven, Belgium)13. The Greek Case from Inside, Janis Nalbadidacis (Humboldt University, Germany)14. Activists without Borders: Transnational Campaigning during the ‘Greek Case’, 1967-69, Konstantina Maragkou (London School of Economics, UK)15. From Greece to Argentina: Transnational Circulations of Torture and Anti-Torture in the Long Seventies, Víctor Fernández Soriano (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) & Kostis Kornetis (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)Part 5 - Torture, Terror, Testimony16. The Greek Military Dictatorship and the Poisonous Knowledge of Torture and Trauma, Katerina Stefatos (Kalamazoo College, USA) & Georgia Sarigianidou-Papadopoulou (Former Junta Political Detainee)17. The 'Greek Case' and its Legacy on the Definition of Torture, Anna Papaeti (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece)18. The Lasting Impact of the “EAT/ESA” (Military Police Special Investigative Department) Trials upon theJurisprudence of the Greek (Civil and Military) Criminal Courts, Sotiris Kyrkos (President of the Athens Military Court, Greece)19. 'Maria's Story', James Becket (‘Greek Case’ Witness, Amnesty International Lawyer, and Author of Barbarism in Greece)20. 'Except you don't know how I felt about it', Kostis Kornetis and Anna PapaetiConclusionIndex

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