Download or read book Greek Democracy and the Junta written by Ioannis Tzortzis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than half a century after the imposition of the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, a number of questions related to its nature, development and demise remains understudied and feebly answered. One of the most interesting -yet understudied- incidents of the dictatorship is its ill-fated self-transformation attempt into some form of civilian rule in 1973: the so-called 'Markezinis experiment', after the politician who assumed the task of heading the transition government and lead to elections. The whole venture lasted a mere eight weeks, faced heavy opposition from both the opposition elites and the civil society and eventually collapsed by a military hard-liners' coup. The story of this failed attempt raises a series of questions: what was the nature of the dictatorship of the Colonels, and why did it take it six years to seek some form of civilianisation? Were the intentions of Papadopoulos and Markezinis sincere, and were the politicians of the opposition right to refuse to legitimise the 'experiment'? What was the Polytechnic students' uprising role in the demise of the 'experiment'? Was there an American reaction, and was it the main reason for the collapse of the transition, as Markezinis claimed? The book seeks to address the above questions, and argues that the failure of the 'Markezinis experiment' paved the way for the actual transition of 1974 as it happened. The research is supported by foreign (British and American) archival resources, as well as by private archives and personal interviews. The book concludes by briefly seeking to trace some potential alternative paths for the failed self- transformation attempt, and by accounting for the long-term consequences of the failure of the 'Markezinis experiment'."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Download or read book The Greek Junta and the International System written by Antonis Klapsis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change. The policies of the major nation-states in both East and West were determined by realistic Cold War considerations. At the same time, the Greek junta, a profoundly anti-modernist force, failed to cope with an evolving international agenda and the movement towards international cooperation. Denouncing it became a rallying point both for international organizations and for human rights activists, and it enabled the EEC to underscore the notion that democracy was an integral characteristic of the European identity. This volume is an original in-depth study of an under-researched subject and the multiple interactions of a complex era. It is divided into three sections: Part I deals with the interaction of the Colonels with state actors; Part II deals with the responses of international organizations and the rising transnational human rights agenda for which the Greek junta became a totemic rallying point; and Part III compares and contrasts the transitions to democracy in Southern Europe, and analyses the different models of transition and region-building, and how they intersected with attempts to foster a European identity. The Greek dictatorship may have been a parochial military regime, but its rise and fall interacted with signifi cant international trends and can therefore serve as a salient case study for promoting a better understanding of international and European trends during the 1960s and 1970s. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War studies, international history, foreign policy, transatlantic relations and International Relations, in general.
Download or read book The Death of a Democracy Greece and the American Conscience written by Stephen William Rousseas and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greek Democracy and the Junta written by Ioannis Tzortzis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than half a century after the imposition of the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, a number of questions related to its nature, development and demise remains understudied and feebly answered. One of the most interesting -yet understudied- incidents of the dictatorship is its ill-fated self-transformation attempt into some form of civilian rule in 1973: the so-called 'Markezinis experiment', after the politician who assumed the task of heading the transition government and lead to elections. The whole venture lasted a mere eight weeks, faced heavy opposition from both the opposition elites and the civil society and eventually collapsed by a military hard-liners' coup. The story of this failed attempt raises a series of questions: what was the nature of the dictatorship of the Colonels, and why did it take it six years to seek some form of civilianisation? Were the intentions of Papadopoulos and Markezinis sincere, and were the politicians of the opposition right to refuse to legitimise the 'experiment'? What was the Polytechnic students' uprising role in the demise of the 'experiment'? Was there an American reaction, and was it the main reason for the collapse of the transition, as Markezinis claimed? The book seeks to address the above questions, and argues that the failure of the 'Markezinis experiment' paved the way for the actual transition of 1974 as it happened. The research is supported by foreign (British and American) archival resources, as well as by private archives and personal interviews. The book concludes by briefly seeking to trace some potential alternative paths for the failed self- transformation attempt, and by accounting for the long-term consequences of the failure of the 'Markezinis experiment'."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Download or read book Greece Under the Junta written by Peter Schwab and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grækenlands historie med tyngde på perioden fra det "militære statskup" 21.4. 1967 gennemført ved hjælp af græske militære enheder, hvorved oberst Papadopoulos blev leder af "militærjuntaen". Om Cypern krisen og kong Konstatins mislykkede forsøg på at styrte juntaen samt juntaens besværligheder med de øvrige europæiske lande og Europarådet, landets indre forhold herunder den græske modstand mod juntaen anført af Papandreou
Download or read book Greek Junta written by Dhirubhai Patel and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a far-right military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou's Centre Union was favoured to win. Greek Junta Index Chapter 1: Greek Junta 1.1 American influence in Greece 1.2 Apostasia and political instability 1.3 A "Generals' Coup" Chapter 2: Coup d'état of 21 April 2.1 Role of the King 2.2 King's counter-coup 2.3 Regency Chapter 3: Characteristics of the Junta 3.1 "Patient in a cast" and other metaphors 3.2 Civil rights 3.3 External relations 3.4 Sociocultural policies 3.5 Greek folk music 3.6 Greek rock 3.7 Economic policies Chapter 4: Italian connection 4.1 Anti-Junta movement 4.2 Assassination attempt by Panagoulis 4.3 Broadening of the movement 4.4 International protest 4.5 Velos mutiny Chapter 5: Collapse 5.1 Normalization and attempts at liberalization 5.2 Uprising at the Polytechnic 5.3 Ioannidis coup and regime Chapter 6: Trials of the junta (1975) 6.1 Legacy and Greek public opinion
Download or read book Greece Under Military Rule written by Richard Clogg and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1972 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Greek Colonels written by Christopher Montague Woodhouse and published by London ; New York : Granada. This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greece on the Road to Democracy written by Speros Vryonis and published by A.D. Caratzas. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Karamanlis the Restorer of Greek Democracy written by Christopher Montague Woodhouse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy at Gunpoint the Greek Front written by Andreas George Papandreou and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iron Storm written by Thomas Doulis and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of the unexpected military coup of 1967, the state and society of Greece had reached a specious political stability, one imposed under the tutelage of the right, the increasingly reactionary monarchy, and the American hegemony as expressed by the U.S. Embassy and the Pentagon. They dominated the armed forces and the Western-oriented elite, which agreed to the suppression of dissent from the marginalized and persecuted left. Although The Iron Strom appears to concentrate on the shocked and overwhelmed intelligentsia as it launched its counterattack with dissident publications, it is more accurately a large-scale study of Greek literary culture from the time of the Nazi Occupation, the Civil War (the final manifestation of the Greco-Greek War) unresolved since the founding of the state and the decades-long post war era. Since the Greek nation was part of the European community and NATO, the Greeks assumed that these provided them with rights and privileges that could not easily be negated and ignored. But it was the Junta, brutal toward the elite as well as the left, that showed them how meaningless these were and provided them with insights into how they should go about viewing their role as a vassal state and achieve a true stability.
Download or read book The Unrepentant written by Vassos Georghiou and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Council of Europe Fights for Democracy in Greece 1967 1969 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Foreign Policy Towards the Colonels Greece written by Neovi M. Karakatsanis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Greek Junta Phenomenon written by Theodore A. Couloumbis and published by Pella Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Military in Greek Politics written by Thanos Veremēs and published by Black Rose. This book was released on 1997 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than tourism, modern Greece is politics. This is a crucial study.
