Modern Greece : what everyone needs to know / Stathis N. Kalyvas. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalyvas, Stathis N., 1964- author.

Series:

What everyone needs to know.

What everyone needs to know

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--1821-.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Modern Greece' is the go-to resource for understanding both the present turmoil and the deeper past that has brought the country to where it is now.

Contents:

How did they fight?What was the outcome?; How was the war internationalized?; How did the rebellion spur the rise of humanitarian intervention?; What explains the love-hate relationship between the West and Greece?; III Building; How was the new state built?; How did nation building succeed?; What was the Great Idea?; Who were the unredeemed Greeks?; What were the consequences of irredentist foreign policy?; What was the Macedonian conflict?; How did democracy come to Greece?; How did the new democratic institutions operate?; How did Greece become a nation of small farmers?

How did foreign occupation morph into civil war?What explains the transformation of the Communist Party?; What explains the paradox of late and mass collaboration in Greece?; How did liberation give way to more civil war?; How did the Civil War restart and end?; What was the legacy of the Civil War?; What was the nature of the postwar political order?; V Takeoff; What was the state of Greece in the aftermath of the Civil War?; How did Greece take off?; What caused the 1967 military coup?; What was the military regime like?; Is there a never-ending Greco-Turkish rivalry?

What is the Cyprus issue about?What is the Aegean Sea Dispute?; How was democracy restored?; Where did the new party system come from?; How did the transition shape political culture?; What was the political legacy of the cultural shift?; What were the dynamics of terrorism in Greece?; How did Greece join the EEC and with what consequences?; What were the economic consequences of the transition to democracy?; What was Greek socialism?; What were PASOK's three key contradictions?; How did PASOK shape Greece?; Why did administrative capacity decline?

What were some of the effects of maladministration?

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Description based on publisher information.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-757014-3