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Modern Greece : what everyone needs to know / Stathis N. Kalyvas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalyvas, Stathis N., 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History--1821-.
- Greece.
- History.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages): illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center of the European economic maelstrom, however, observers and critics cited a history of economic hurdles, dictatorships, revolutions, and disasters as to why Greece's crisis was understandable, if not inescapable. Indeed, this not the first time that the birthplace of democracy has suffered a disaster of such significance. Several times throughout its history, Greece found itself at the center of global storms that were totally out of proportion to the country's actual size and weight. This was the effect of highly ambitious projects undertaken by Greece, which produced some very significant achievements, but eventually overtaxed the country's capacity. In turn, these failures triggered various international bailouts that shored up the country and propelled it ahead. Remarkably, when the dust cleared, Greece almost always found itself looking forward showing a positive balance. In Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Stathis Kalyvas, an eminent scholar of conflict, Europe, and Greece, elucidates the causes of the crisis and its impact on contemporary Greek society. He traces the nation's development from the early nineteenth century to the present in a way that connects key episodes, ranging from the emergence of a national independence movement during the early nineteenth century, the creation of a new state with democratic institutions in a backward corner of the Ottoman Empire, its expansion and the massive ethnic cleansing that following World War I, the German occupation in World War II, the ensuing civil war, the postwar economic takeoff, the military coup of 1967, and the return of democracy in 1974, followed by the country's entry into the European Union and the Eurozone. He shows how Greece's modern history is an exemplary case of an early, highly ambitious, creative, incomplete, and imperfect-but overall quite successful-effort by an underendowed upstart to catch up with the most advanced nations. Modern Greece is the go-to resource for understanding both the current crisis and the historical events that brought the country to where it is now. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I What is Greece? 1
- What Is this book about? 1
- Why Greece now? 3
- What is the weight of ancient Greece on the present? 5
- What have Greeks thought about themselves? 6
- In what sense is Greece a pioneer? 9
- What is Greece's lesser-known record of achievements? 11
- How to reconcile disasters and achievements? 13
- II Emergence 15
- How did modern Greece come into being? 15
- What was the Greek nationalist movement? 16
- Where did Greek nationalism come from? 18
- Who were the nationalists? 21
- How did they rebel? 23
- Who rebelled? 25
- How did they fight? 26
- What was the outcome? 27
- How was the war internationalized? 29
- How did the rebellion spur the rise of humanitarian intervention? 31
- What explains the love-hate relationship between the West and Greece? 32
- III Building 37
- How was the new state built? 37
- How did nation building succeed? 40
- What was the Great Idea? 43
- Who were the unredeemed Greeks? 44
- What were the consequences of irredentist foreign policy? 46
- What was the Macedonian conflict? 47
- How did democracy come to Greece? 50
- How did the new democratic institutions operate? 52
- How did Greece become a nation of small farmers? 54
- Was Greece a failed state? 56
- What was the state of the economy? 58
- What led to successive defaults? 61
- How did Greece build an infrastructure? 63
- How did Greece double up its territory? 64
- How was Greece transformed? 66
- IV Turmoil 69
- What was the National Schism? 69
- What happened in the aftermath of World War I? 71
- What was the Anatolian disaster? 72
- What was the impact of the population exchange? 74
- What was the impact of the Great Depression? 79
- How did communism emerge in Greece? 80
- What was the Metaxas regime? 81
- How did Greece enter World War II? 82
- What was the Greek Civil War? 83
- How did foreign occupation morph into civil war? 84
- What explains the transformation of the Communist Party? 86
- What explains the paradox of late and mass collaboration in Greece? 88
- How did liberation give way to more civil war? 90
- How did the Civil War restart and end? 93
- What was the legacy of the Civil War? 96
- What was the nature of the postwar political order? 97
- V Takeoff 101
- What was the state of Greece in the aftermath of the Civil War? 101
- How did Greece take off? 103
- What caused the 1967 military coup? 107
- What was the military regime like? 109
- Is there a never-ending Greco-Turkish rivalry? 112
- What is the Cyprus issue about? 113
- What is the Aegean Sea Dispute? 115
- How was democracy restored? 116
- Where did the new party system come from? 118
- How did the transition shape political culture? 120
- What was the political legacy of the cultural shift? 122
- What were the dynamics of terrorism in Greece? 124
- How did Greece join the EEC and with what consequences? 126
- What were the economic consequences of the transition to democracy? 128
- What was Greek socialism? 130
- What were PASOK's three key contradictions? 131
- How did PASOK shape Greece? 133
- Why did administrative capacity decline? 135
- What were some of the effects of maladministration? 137
- What was the effect of populism on social norms and behavior? 140
- How did PASOK shape the economy? 142
- How did economic stagnation give way to economic boom? 147
- VI The Great Crisis 153
- How did Greece go from economic boom to bust? 153
- What triggered the crisis? 155
- What were the European institutional causes of the crisis? 158
- What were the domestic economic causes of the crisis? 161
- What were the domestic political causes of the crisis? 164
- What was the Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies? 170
- What did the adjustment program achieve? 173
- What went wrong? 175
- Why did it go wrong? 177
- Was Grexit a sound option? 182
- What was the political fallout of the crisis? 185
- Why did Greece choose the way it did? 190
- Onward to where? 191
- VII Future 195
- What are the seven boom-bust-bailout cycles of Greek history? 195
- How does Greece's past inform its present and future? 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2015).
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kalyvas, Stathis N. Modern Greece : what everyone needs to know.
- ISBN:
- 9780199948789
- OCLC:
- 939263162
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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