Under the Eagle's Claw

Exceptionalism in Postwar U.S. - Greek Relations

Jon Kofas

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN: 9780275976231
• eBook ISBN: 9780313072239
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 Foundations of American Hegemony and Client-Patron Politics, 1950–1963
• CHAPTER 2 Rising Tensions in Greek-American Relations and the Paralysis of Parliamentary Government, 1963–1967
• CHAPTER 3 The Colonels and the United States, 1967–1974
• CHAPTER 4 Redefining the Client-Patron Relationship: U.S.-Greek Relations and the "New Democracy," 1974–1981
• CHAPTER 5 From Apotheosis to Integration: Greek-American Relations in Transition, 1981–2000
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index