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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Dramatis Personae -- List of Abbreviations and Terms -- Prologue -- 1 Origins -- 2 Authoritarianism, War, and Occupation -- 3 The Politics of Violence: From Resistance to Civil War -- 4 Bloody December: The Second Round of the Civil War -- 5 The Pogrom of the Left: The Prelude to White Terror -- 6 Balkan Machinations: KKE, CPY, and the Macedonian Conundrum -- 7 The Politics of Hate and Retribution -- 8 From Insurgency to Civil War -- 9 The Cauldron of Battle: Grammos and Vitsi -- Epilogue

An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history André Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the shaping of policy and politics in post-Second World War Europe and America and was a key starting point of the Cold War. Based in part on recently declassified documents from Greece, the United States, and the British Intelligence Services, this masterful study sheds new light on the aftershocks that have rocked Greece in the seven decades following the end of the bitter hostilities.

The book contains contributions of scholars from Canada, Greece, Israel, Italy, and the United States. Section 1 consists of studies on historical and security issues, with contributions on the historical background of Greco-Turkish relations, British perspectives on these relations after World War II, the role of NATO, Greece's defense strategy, and the balance of power between Greece and Turkey. Section 2 addresses law of the sea and governance issues, and includes studies on Greece and the law of the sea, maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean, the Imia Rocks crisis, human security and governance, fisheries management, water resources management, joint development zones, and dispute settlement in the law of the sea

This collection analyzes how rival states used neutral territories as sites of clandestine competition during the Second World War and the Cold War. It also examines how neutral governments coped with challenges to national sovereignty posed by international spies, corrupt officials, and foreign assassins.