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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article discusses U.S. penetration of Greece in 1947-1952, but also the shaping of a more balanced relationship later in the 1950s. Analysis includes both the official, political/strategic relationship, but also the cultural level and the activities of American nongovernmental educational institutions in Greece, an aspect largely ignored by available scholarship. It is argued that the United States was successful because, apart from ensuring the victory of the pro-Western forces in the Greek civil war, it stimulated economic development, transfer of ideas, political change and renovation, and eventually Greece's integration in the hard core of the postwar West. The U.S. experience of Greece, especially during an early phase (the late 1940s), played an important role in the shaping of containment policies, which were not simply anti-Soviet and anti-Communist, and also involved U.S. leadership of an institutionalized, value-oriented West.
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