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Human rights and international security: the international community and the Greek dictators

Pedaliu, Effie G. H. (2016) Human rights and international security: the international community and the Greek dictators. International History Review, 38 (5). 1014 - 1039. ISSN 0707-5332

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Identification Number: 10.1080/07075332.2016.1141308

Abstract

The Greek junta was notorious for its use of state torture as a means of control. Yet, for most Western governments and organisations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations (UN), Greece's geostrategic location was considered to be a higher priority than the undemocratic behaviour of the ‘Colonels’. This article seeks to synthesise existing historiography with new research in order to examine the complex and interconnected processes that led Western states and key international institutions to tolerate human-rights abuses in Greece in the face of huge protest from international public opinion. It will look at why Western states failed to explain away the ‘Greek case’, as they had done with Portugal and Spain, as an anomaly on the road to defeating a mortal enemy, the USSR, which was committing far more numerous violations. It will also consider why international opinion focused on Greece so intently. It will show how many in the West were lulled by the regime into believing that human-rights abusers can act as agents of stability and security. The article's footnotes aim to draw attention to the many primary and secondary sources that provide additional information on the issue of human-rights abuses by the Greek junta.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rinh20
Additional Information: © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Divisions: IGA: LSE IDEAS
Subjects: J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2022 14:54
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2024 02:00
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113481

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