Greek Junta and the International System

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.

• Foreword JOHN O. IATRIDES1 Introduction ANTONIS KLAPSIS, CONSTANTINE ARVANITOPOULOS, EVANTHIS HATZIVASSILIOU AND EFFIE G. H. PEDALIUPART I: International actors 2 ‘Papandreou Derangement Syndrome’?: the United States and the April 1967 coup JAMES E. MILLER3 Greece in the tapes: Nixon and the junta HARRY PAPASOTIRIOU4 France and the Greek Colonels MAURICE VAÏSSE5 Italy and the Greek military regime from the 1967 coup d’état to the fall of the dictatorship ANTONIO VARSORI6 The Bavarian Greek radio programme for Greek migrants and its impact on Greek–German relations, 1967–74NIKOS PAPANASTASIOU7 Beyond the bi-polar world: Greece’s relations with China, Israel and Africa, 1967–73 DIONYSIOS CHOURCHOULIS, MANOLIS KOUMAS AND ANASTASIOS PANOUTSOPOULOSPART II: International institutions and transnational processes8 A clash of cultures? The UN, the Council of Europe and the Greek dictatorsEFFIE G. H. PEDALIU9 Taking a stance: the European Community and the Greek juntaEIRINI KARAMOUZI10 The challenges of modernism: Greece, environmentalism and the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–79 EVANTHIS HATZIVASSILIOU11 ‘The situation in Greece’: American human rights activism in the wake of the 1967 coup SARAH B. SNYDER12 The Beckets vs. the Colonels: a study in the micro-evolution of global human rights activism in the ‘long 1960s’KONSTANTINA MARAGKOUPART 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 PELT14 International dimensions of democratization: revisiting the Spanish case CHARLES POWELL15 The Cold War and the Portuguese Revolution: three paradigms of an exemplary case study MARIO DEL PERO16 The Greek transition to democracy ANTONIS KLAPSIS17 Praetorian military regimes: the Greek case CONSTANTINE ARVANITOPOULOSConclusions 18 The Colonels’ dictatorship 1967–74: bringing in the international MICHAEL COXIndex