Stirring the Greek nation
Subtitle: political culture, irredentism and anti-Americanism in post-war Greece, 1945-1967
By: Ioannis D. Stefanidis.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780754660590
Subjects: Political culture -- Greece.; Nationalism -- Greece.; Anti-Americanism -- Greece.; Greece -- Politics and government -- 1935-1967.; Greece -- Foreign relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-295) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Domestic factors and foreign policy; value: Greek political culture; value: Non-state actors; value: Greek foreign policy : the domestic nexus; value: Greek political culture after World War II; value: Foreign policy-making in post-civil war Greece; value: The post-war irredentist revival; value: The restitution of the nation; value: The 'national claims' activism, 1945-1946; value: The irredentist legacy : the northern Epirus question; value: The first Cyprus campaign; value: The Cyprus question, 1950-1959; value: The 'national centre' theory; value: The 'keystone' of Greek politics; value: 'Relentless struggle' versus 'defeatism'; value: The opportunity for the left; value: The ambiguous relation to anti-colonialism; value: Compromise and its critics; value: Popular mobilization; value: The political culture of Enosis; value: Enosis and the post-civil war political discourse; value: The rhetoric of the Enosis campaign; value: The negative 'other'; value: Dissenters; value: Reactions to dissent; value: Political leaders; value: The second Cyprus campaign; value: The Cyprus crisis, 1963-1964; value: The revival of Ensosis; value: Public discourse; value: Popular mobilization - A 'Greek' foreign policy?; value: The Cyprus question and the origins of anti-Americanism; value: The end of a (not so) beautiful friendship; value: The 'American factor'; value: The record of intervention; value: Extraterritoriality; value: The beacon of freedom; value: The collapse of an idol; value: The growth of anti-Americanism; value: The neutralist tide; value: Greek reactions; value: US perceptions; value: Discontent and the impact of the second Cyprus crisis; value: The leftist challenge; value: Centrist discontent; value: A fez for L.B. Johnson; value: The proud 'no'; value: The aftereffect; value: The American 'conspiracy'; value: (National) pride and prejudice; value: Cultural and racial stereotypes; value: Americanization and cultural anti-Americanism; value: Surveys; value: Survey tables; value: Epilogue.