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Examines terrorist activity of the Revolutionary Organization of 17th November and the Popular Revolutionary Struggle (ELA), and response of the PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) government; since 1974, chiefly.

Karl Polanyi: Notes - Greece, 1947-1960. File contains Karl Polanyi's hand-written and annotated typed notes on Greece including notes on markets, polis and agora, securing grain imports, Herodotus, and Aristotle's sociology of politics, among others. Also included in the file are three book reviews dealing with Antiquity. The notes are in English.

The author points out that, despite some success in 2010, the medium-term prospects of Greece do not inspire much optimism. Even in the case of a quick recovery of the world economy in the next two years (which is highly questionable), the country will face a continuation of the recession. It is very likely that in the near future the government will have to restructure public debt, which reached 125% of GDP by 2010. Besides that, Greece faces a very difficult foreign policy challenge, that is to restore the credibility from the EU and to prove that Greece's admittance to the Eurozone was not a mistake.

Effect of Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) domination of Greek institutions and the economy. PASOK's foreign policy objectives.

The position of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in Greece is examined in terms of a conceptualization of Greece as a semiperipheral state effectively integrated into the world economy. No clear conceptual basis for the socialist transformation of such societies has been developed. The major internal problems faced by PASOK are noted. Greece has not been able to establish genuine independence from the West, & whether it can do so remains in doubt. W. H. Stoddard.

Analysing and debating Greece's contemporary politics, economy and society

Analysing and debating Greece's contemporary politics, economy and society