American Foreign Policy Towards the Colonels' Greece

Neovi M. Karakatsanis is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University South Bend, USA. Her work has appeared in South European Society and Politics, Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Democratization, and Mediterranean Quarterly, and she is the author of The Politics of Elite Transformation: The Consolidation of Greek Democracy in Theoretical Perspective.  She is currently coeditor (with Jonathan Swarts) of Political and Military Sociology:  An Annual Review.Jonathan Swarts is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University Northwest, USA.  He has published in such journals as the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Political Studies and is the author of Constructing Neoliberalism: The Transformation of Economic Ideas in Anglo-American Democracies.  He is currently coeditor (with Neovi M. Karakatsanis) of Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review.

“Karakatsanis and Swarts do a superb job of demonstrating both the United States' unpreparedness for the April 1967 coup d'etat and the agency of the Greek junta relative to the American government. … the excellent research done by these scholars. … Karakatsanis and Swarts's work will remain a standard in the field for years to come.” (Andre Gerolymatos, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 37 (1), May, 2019)

• 1. Political Instability and Breakdown: The Historical Context.- 2. A Fait Accompli: The US Reaction to the Greek Military Coup of 1967.- 3. Johnson, Nixon and Athens: Changing Foreign Policy towards the Greek Military Dictatorship.- 4. Internal Divides: The White House, State Department and the Athens Embassy.- 5. A View of the Colonels from the US Congress: Supporters and Opponents of the Greek Regime.- 6. US Diplomacy within Europe and NATO on the Greek Question.- 7. Agency in Athens:  The Greek Colonels’ Strategy towards the US.- 8. Assessing US Foreign Policy in the Junta Era