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Author(s): Christos Tsakas

ISBN(s): 9783031043710, 9783031043703, 3031043715, 3031043707

Edition: 2

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Year: 2022

Language: English

SKU: EB-54849596 Category: History - European History Tags: Business Interests, Christos Tsakas, Economic Development, European Integration, Greco-German Relations

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Author: Christos Tsakas

Post-war Greco-German Relations, 1953–1981
Economic Development, Business Interests and European Integration

This book explores the post-war Greco-German relationship and asks how this relationship fits into, and changes, the narrative of European integration. The book highlights West Germany’s role in shaping Greece’s development model and argues that Greece’s accession to the Community in 1981 had a long back story in the modernization strategies adopted by the two countries as early as the 1950s. The success, not the failure, of those strategies lies at the root of Greece’s lingering balance of payments problems: the ever-widening trade deficit with Germany, the country’s main trading partner, was the price of Greek economic growth in the decades following the war. By addressing this three-decade story of uneasy continuity, the book offers new insights into core-periphery relations in Europe, questions the conventional wisdom about Greece’s path to Europe, and challenges the way the so-called North-South divide has been adduced to explain the recent euro crisis. In doing so, the authorcalls attention to past cooperation between leading political and business circles in Greece and Germany, making this a useful and insightful read for historians and political scientists alike.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. From US Aid to West German Credits, 1953
2. Expectations and Frustrations
3. Shipowners and Industrialization: Onassis in Hamburg
4. Collaborators and Benefactors: The Connections
Part II. Turmoil, 1953–1958
5. Amity and Secrecy: The 1953 Agreement
6. Siemens: From the Rally to the ERE
7. Reshuffle: Karamanlis’s First Transition
Part III. Bonn and Brussels, 1958–1963
8. Loans and Integration: From Bonn to Brussels
9. Bulwark or Colony?
10. Bauxite and Aluminum: A Turn Toward France?
Part IV. Europeanization Under Authoritarian Rule, 1963–1974
11. Catalyst: The Common Market and the Descent into Dictatorship
12. Isolation and Cooperation
13. Blueprint for Rapprochement
14. Growth and Crisis
Part V. Europe and Democracy, 1974–1981
15. Metapolitefsi: Karamanlis’s Second Transition
16. Preconditions and Expedients
17. Downplaying Doubts
18. 1981: Bound by Europe
Part VI. Conclusion
19. Epilogue: Crisis, History, Politics