FRONT COVER -- TITLE PAGE -- COLOPHONE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Design of the Study -- SOURCES -- Unpublished Official Sources -- Published Sources and Document Collections -- LITERATURE AND INTERPRETATIONS -- BURDEN-SHARING BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND WEST GERMANY DURING THE COLD WAR: AN INTRODUCTION -- The Korean War, German Economic Expansion and the Issue of Burden-Sharing -- The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in Focus -- PART I: ECONOMIC AND POLITICALSTABILIZATION IN GREECE,1949-1955 -- US ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STABILIZATION POLICY,1945-1955 -- The Dislocation of the Greek Economy -- British Financial Aid -- The United States Takes Over: Financial Aid, 1947-1952 -- Constitutional Problems in Greece: the Power of the Army -- American Resistance to Right-Wing Government -- The Korean War and the Changing American Attitude -- The 'Papagos Solution' Materializes -- The United States and the Papagos Government -- The Succession Crisis in 1955 -- ATHENS-WASHINGTON-BONN AND THE GREEK DEVELOPMENT PLAN -- Bodosakis and the Greek Development Plan -- Bodosakis' Appeal to West Germany -- Markezinis' Appeal to Washington -- New Appeals to Bonn -- German Participation in the Greek Development Plan: the Erhard-Markezinis Agreement of 1953 -- West German Aid and Traditional German Interests -- Further Strengthening of Greek-West German Relations -- Reaction against West German Influence -- Summary and Conclusion of Part I -- PART II: CONFLICTING ECONOMIC INTERESTS AND MILITARY INTEGRATION -- THE GREEK-GERMAN TOBACCO TRADE, THE UNITED STATES AND THE QUESTION OF GREECE'S POSITION IN THE WEST, 1945-1955 -- The "Tobacco Nerve": The Role of Tobacco in Greek Economy and Politics -- "ECA financed American Competition": Expansion on the German Market -- Greek Efforts to Regain the German Market, 1945-1947.

The 1948 Agreement and Continued American Resistance -- The 1950 Tobacco Crisis and the United States -- ECA's Efforts to Open the West German Market for Greece, 1950-52 -- The Erhard-Papandreou Agreement -- Continued Cigarette Tax Problems -- Adenauer's Intervention, August 1951 -- The Cigarette Tax and the German Rearmament Question -- Controversies arising from the Marshall Plan and the Consolidation of the Cold War Division of Europe -- Greece, NATO and the Middle East -- Military Expenditures and the Greek Development Plan -- Summary and Conclusion of Part II -- PART III: FRICTIONS WITHIN NATO AND WESTERN INTEGRATION,1955-1961 -- BURDEN-SHARING, SOVIET 'BUSINESS IMPERIALISM' AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE BONN-PARIS AXIS -- GREECE, THE UNITED STATES, WEST GERMANY AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, 1955-1958 -- New Challenging Soviet Policy -- Cyprus, Egypt and the New Greek Policy towards the United States -- The United States Refuses to Increase its Economic Aid to Greece -- New Difficulties in Relations between Greece and the United States, 1956-1957 -- Greece Turns to West Germany -- Renewed Crisis around the Middle East and Cyprus: Germany Changes her Mind -- The Adenauer-Karamanlis Agreement, November 1958 -- The Berlin Crisis and the Cyprus Issue, 1958-1959 -- Greece and the Soviet Bloc -- GREECE, WEST GERMANY AND THE ISSUE OF EEC ASSOCIATION, 1959-1961 -- Economic Crisis, Eastern Trade and Dependency -- The Missile Question and Karamanlis' Dilemma -- The Application for Association: Greece Prioritized before Turkey -- Protectionism or Liberation of Trade -- Greek Demands and German Resistance: Exploratory Negotiations in Brussels in the Autumn of 1959 -- Renewed Greek Pressure on West Germany and the United States -- Symbolic Gesture: Strauss Goes to Athens, March 1960.

Formal Negotiations between Greece and the EEC, March-April 1960: Continued Resistance to Greek Demands and Continued Greek Pressure on Bonn -- Karamanlis Turns to de Gaulle -- Meetings between Karamanlis and de Gaulle -- Deadlock in the Negotiations, August 1960 to January 1961 -- A Turn in the Negotiations: Move towards an Agreement, February to July 1961 -- The Crucial Player in the Agreement: Karamanlis, de Gaulle or Adenauer? -- Summary and Conclusion of Part III -- PART IV: THE POST-WAR POLITICAL ORDER UNDER PRESSURE,1962-1974 -- BURDEN-SHARING UNDER STRAIN: CHALLENGES FROM THE BONN-PARIS AXIS AND A MORE INDEPENDENT WEST GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY -- CONTINUED GREEK DEPENDENCE ON WEST GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES, 1962-1974 -- "A Special Relationship": Appraisals by Seelos and Auswärtiges Amt -- An Increased Role for West Germany in US Containment Policy -- The French-American Controversy and West Germany -- Upturn in Greek Economy and Increased Vulnerability -- Foreign Political Crisis and Continued Interdependency between Greece and the United States -- THE GREEK INTERNAL POLITICAL CRISIS AND THE UNITED STATES, 1962-1974 -- Winds of Change -- Karamanlis, the Cyprus Crisis and Political Unrest, 1956-1961 -- The Elections in 1961 and Accusations of Manipulation -- The Royal Family under Fire -- Papandreou's Power Struggle with Palace and Army, 1964-1965 -- The King, the Americans and the Prospects of a Royal Coup -- The Americans, the King and the Junta in the Period between the Coupon 21 April and the King's Failed Counter-coup in December 1967 -- Constantine's Abortive Counter-coup, 13 December 1967 -- The United States, the NATO Allies and the Junta, 1967-1970 -- Increased US Military and Strategic Commitment to Greece and Attempts to Involve West Germany, 1970-1972.

Nixon's 'Undeclared' Benevolent Policy towards the Juntaand the Question of the King's Return, 1970-1972 -- The Abolition of the Monarchy and the Fall of Papadopoulos,May to November 1973 -- Opposition to the Junta and anti-Americanism -- Popular Detestation and Student Uprising -- "You Are Hated, You Know!" Escalation of anti-Juntaand anti-American Feelings in 1973 -- The Fall of the Junta and Greece's Departure from NATO Command -- Summary and Conclusion of Part IV -- TYING GREECE TO THE WEST: US-WEST GERMAN-GREEK RELATIONS,1949-1974 -- Burden-sharing -- The United States, West Germany and the Greek Right-Wing State -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Unpublished Sources -- Published Sources -- Memoirs -- Contemporary Literature -- New Literature -- NOTES -- INDEX.