Greek Cold War anti-Americanism in perspective, 1947–1989

Allende in Athens: The Political and Cultural Impact of the Chilean 1970s in Greece during the Colonels' Dictatorship and theMetapolitefsi(1970–1981)

“…More importantly, leftists and centrists, and even right-wingers, used the Chilean 1970s as a key reference and example in crucial Metapolitefsi debates, almost as if events in Chile were an internal and integral part of the Greek 1970s. These debates concerned the Greek Left's role in the Metapolitefsi; the nation's new dominant ideologies, with antifascism and anti-imperialism replacing right-wing nationalism (Voulgaris, 2002;Lialiouti, 2016); and Greece's new place in the world, breaking away from the post-war alignment with the US.…”

“…The US had supported the Colonels' Junta and played an instrumental role in the Cyprus tragedy. After 1974, the Cyprus events made an uncritical alliance with the US untenable for Greek politicians, and anti-Americanism became a trans-ideological stance (Lialiouti, 2016). However, discarding Greece's main post-war international policy orientation rendered the country's place in the world an open question.…”

Troublemaker or peacemaker? Andreas Papandreou, the Euromissile Crisis, and the policy of peace, 1981–86

“…Anti-Americanism therefore, to a degree transformed into a factor of national unity that superseded the Cold War consensus of the pre-junta years and offered a fertile ground for Andreas Papandreou's ideas and policies. 32 When PASOK eventually won the general election on 18 October 1981, even US policymakers and intelligence officials appeared rather relieved that the…”

Negotiating the American Presence in Greece: Bases, Security and National Sovereignty

“…7 Quickly, anti-American sentiment became a unifying factor that superseded the Cold War consensus of the pre-junta years and 'constituted a popular interpretive framework for the construction of meaning'. 8 The base talks and their framing adds to our understanding of why the bases became the epicentre of Greek anger, despair, and protest in the period under examination. Furthermore, the investigation of the talks reveals what (if any) the political consequences of persistent anti-Americanism within the public were.…”