Civil society, non-state actors and Greek foreign policy: the Macedonian question from the era of "silence" until the early post-Cold War period

Abstract

The dissertation seeks to determine the factors which guided Greek foreign policy on the Macedonian Question after 1962 and the ways which it affected the public perceptions of the issue in post-Civil War Greece. Employing a wide array of primary sources, it explores the disconnect between the "revisionist" popular line (which manifested in the current in favor of defending the "Greekness of Macedonia") and the official policy of preceding years, through the prism of three basic aspects of the issue: (a) the diachronic information gap between the state structures and the Greek public opinion, which was a result of the policy of "silence," the starting-point of which was the gentlemen's agreement between the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs E. Averoff and his Yugoslavian counterpart K. Popovic in 1962· (b) the structural weakness inherent in the Greek state to insulate itself from societal pressures and especially from mass mobilizations as they manifested themselves through initiative ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/49725
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/49725
ND
49725
Alternative title
Κοινωνία πολιτών, μη κρατικοί φορείς και ελληνική εξωτερική πολιτική: το Μακεδονικό από την περίοδο της "σιωπής" ως την πρώιμη μεταψυχροπολεμική περίοδο
Author
Kalpadakis, Georgios (Father's name: Emmanouil)
Date
2009
Degree Grantor
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Committee members
Βερέμης Αθανάσιος
Υφαντής Κωνσταντίνος
Χουλιάρας Αστέριος
Σωτηρόπουλος Δημήτριος
Αθανασοπούλου Εκάβη
Λυβάνιος Δημήτριος
Γούναρης Βασίλειος
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsHistory and Archaeology ➨ Contemporary history
Social SciencesPolitical Science ➨ International Relations
Keywords
Macedonian question
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
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