American Foreign Policy Towards the Colonels' Greece [electronic resource] : Uncertain Allies and the 1967 Coup d'État /
Karakatsanis, Neovi M.author.
Swarts, Jonathan.author.
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.
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.
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.
International relations.
Foreign Policy.