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"When people think of Germany's relation to Greece in the twentieth century, they think of the Nazi occupation and the sovereign debt crisis. But as Christos Tsakas reveals in this stimulating work, in between came West Germany's sponsoring role in the political integration of Greece in Europe, without which recent austerity debates would never have been possible. The book successfully deconstructs a more simplistic "blame game" - as the best history often does."
--Samuel Moyn, Yale University
"Christos Tsakas' book shows how central the Greek-German relation was in the history of European integration, long before the tension that developed between the two countries in the 2010s. [...] Tsakas provides a broad picture that effectively recentres the debate on the origins of our current predicament."
--Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, University of Glasgow
"Christos Tsakas' historical analysis problematizes contemporary narratives of Greco-German relations thatfocus on conflicts between sovereign debt defaults and austerity measures. [...] Tsakas presents a nuanced perspective of the bilateral relationship and sheds new light on the wider dynamics of regional integration in the twentieth century."
-- Grace Ballor, Bocconi University
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 Germany's role in shaping Greece's 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 country's 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 Greece's 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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Christos Tsakas is a historian and a Carlsberg Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Danish Institute at Athens, Greece. Previously, he studied modern history at the University of Crete and has held postdoctoral positions and visiting fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, the European University Institute in Florence, and the Free University of Berlin. As an external researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH in Rethymno, Christos initiated an archives and oral history project documenting post-war Greek industrialization. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Common Market Studies and Business History.
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This book explores the Greco-German relationship from the first major post-war agreement between the two countries in 1953 to Greece's entry into the European Community (EC) in 1981, and asks how this relationship fits into, and changes, the narrative of European integration. The book highlights West Germany's role in shaping Greece's development model and argues that Greece's accession to the EC in 1981 had a long history 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 country's 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 Greece's 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 book calls attention to past cooperation between leading political and business circles in Greece and Germany, and seeks to contribute to deconstructing the 'blame game' that began in the two countries at the height of the Greek crisis. Approaching Greco-German relations from the perspective of the history of business, the author argues that larger economic and social forces impacted the political pressures at play in the arena of international relations and European integration during the second half of the twentieth century, making this a useful and insightful read for European historians and political scientists alike.
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