Jon Kofas

Under the Eagle's Claw (eBook, PDF)

Exceptionalism in Postwar U.S. - Greek Relations

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313072239
• Artikelnr.: 37829747

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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