Greece and the United States: The Strained Partnership

6. Commissioning Political Sympathies

“…22 The British felt that to avoid such a situation, it had to 'neutralize the Greek Communists, whom it could not hope to control'. 23 In fact, as far back as 17 August 1944, Churchill had written a 'Personal and Top Secret' memo to the American president Franklin Roosevelt to say that:…”

Greece’s New Political Economy

“…The rise to government of the socialist party (PASOK) under Andreas Papandreou in 1981 signified the consolidation of the Third Republic, proving that democracy had indeed become 'the only game in town' (Linz and Stepan 1996;Gunther et al 1995: 5ff). The 1981-2000 period was led by and large by PASOK governments, except for a government term of the ND in 1990-93, and a brief interlude of transitional coalition governments in 1989-90. At the level of international integration, the post-1950 period began with politico-economic tutelage of Greece by the US, initially within the Marshall Plan governance framework, and more broadly within the framework of a patron-client relationship under the cold war regime and NATO (Couloumbis et al 1976: 103-46;Iatrides 1983). In the 1950s, Greece became a member of the main international organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the OEEC (later renamed the OECD), and participated in the Bretton Woods system.…”

A Strategy for Greece: Democratization and European Integration, 1974-1975

“…reliance upon the United States and NATO, at least on the surface" 26. The dilemma for Karamanlis was however, that as long as Turkey remained the principal threat, any moves to isolate Greece from the United States and NATO would only benefit the enemy.…”