Under the Eagle's Claw: Exceptionalism in Postwar U.S. - Greek Relations

by Jon Kofas

Overview

The record shows that the United States often acts as if it has license to disregard the sovereign rights of other peoples and nations. Kofas argues the United States has used Greece as a means of satisfying its own interests for the past half-century, and that Greece has suffered mightily at the hands of its protector. The United States has deemed this strategically situated nation too important to its own geopolitical ambitions to allow it to realize the democratic freedoms so often espoused.

Because of U.S. pressure, Greeks have been subjected to authoritarian regimes and have carried huge military budgets that have significantly weakened social programs. Kofas shows that Greece's own domestic and international interests were consistently subordinated to America's.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275976231
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

JON V. KOFAS is Professor of History at Indiana University Kokomo. He is the author of The Sword of Damocles: U.S. Financial Hegemony in Colombia and Chile, 1950-1970 (Praeger, 2002).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Foundations of American Hegemony and Client-Patron Politics, 1950-1963
Rising Tensions in Greek-American Relations and the Paralysis of Parliamentary Government, 1963-1967
The Colonels and the United States, 1967-1974
Redefining the Client-Patron Relationship: U.S.-Greek Relations and the "New Democracy," 1974-1981
From Apotheosis to Integration: Greek-American Relations in Transition, 1981-2000
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index