Post-war Greco-German relations, 1953-1981 : economic development, business interests and European integration / Christos Tsakas.
Tsakas, Christos, author.
2022
DF787.G4
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Title Post-war Greco-German relations, 1953-1981 : economic development, business interests and European integration / Christos Tsakas.
Author Tsakas, Christos, author.
ISBN 9783031043710 (electronic bk.)
3031043715 (electronic bk.)
9783031043703
3031043707
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04371-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-04371-0 doi
Call Number DF787.G4
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.495043
Summary 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 Germanys role in shaping Greeces 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 countrys 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 Greeces 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 author calls 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. Christos Tsakas is a historian and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI. He has previously held fellowships in Berlin, Florence, Princeton, Harvard, and Athens.
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1. Introduction
Part I. From US Aid to West German Credits, 1953
2. Expectations and Frustrations
3. Shipping Tycoons: Onassis in Hamburg
4. Collaborators and Benefactors
Part II. Turmoil, 1953-1958
5. Getting Along: The Erhard-Markezinis Accord
6. The Siemens Scandal
7. Karamanlis' First Transition
Part III. Bonn and Brussels, 1978-1963
8. Loans and Integration: The Adenauer-Karamanlis Agreement
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. Freezing and Cooperation
13. Blueprint for Rapprochement
14. Growth and Crisis
Part V. Democratic Transition and European Community Membership, 1974-1981
15. Karamanlis' Second Transition
16. Requirements and Goals
17. Fear and Optimism
18. 1981: Bound by Europe
19. Epilogue.

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