This book seeks to comprehensively analyze and document U.S. foreign policy toward a strategic Cold War ally that posed a stark challenge to the traditionally-stated U.S. preference for democracy and political freedom. It details the complex ways in which the U.S. reacted to that challenge and went about crafting policies of longer-term accommodation with a regime it wished to retain as a close ally in a strategically important part of the world.

Explores the contentious and complicated question of American involvement in the Greek dictatorship of 1967-1974. Examines the complexity of the U.S.-Greek relationship during the Cold War. Presents a nuanced understanding of the actors, strategies, and interests involved in America's foreign-policy making towards a strategically important political and military ally during a period of intense superpower competition.

Autorentext

Neovi M. Karakatsanis is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University South Bend, USA. Her work has appeared in South European Society and Politics , Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies , Democratization, and Mediterranean Quarterly , and she is the author of The Politics of Elite Transformation : The Consolidation of Greek Democracy in Theoretical Perspective . She is currently coeditor (with Jonathan Swarts) of Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review .

Jonathan Swarts is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University Northwest, USA. He has published in such journals as the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies,*Mediterranean Quarterly , and Political Studies and is the author of Constructing Neoliberalism: The Transformation of Economic Ideas in Anglo-American Democracies . He is currently coeditor (with Neovi M. Karakatsanis) of Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review.*

Inhalt

1. Political Instability and Breakdown: The Historical Context.- 2. A Fait Accompli : The US Reaction to the Greek Military Coup of 1967.- 3. Johnson, Nixon and Athens: Changing Foreign Policy towards the Greek Military Dictatorship.- 4. Internal Divides: The White House, State Department and the Athens Embassy.- 5. A View of the Colonels from the US Congress: Supporters and Opponents of the Greek Regime.- 6. US Diplomacy within Europe and NATO on the Greek Question.- 7. Agency in Athens: The Greek Colonels' Strategy towards the US.- 8. Assessing US Foreign Policy in the Junta Era