[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: October 16, 2018

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at Princeton.EDU
Tue Oct 9 12:44:52 PDT 2018



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies





Lecture





Europeanisation under Authoritarian Rule: Greek Business and the Hoped-for Transition to Electoral Politics, 1967-1974





Christos Tsakas

ctsakas at princeton.edu<mailto:ctsakas at princeton.edu>
Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellow, Hellenic Studies



Respondent:  Harold James, History


The paper addresses the domestic impact of the freezing of the Greek association with the EEC on business-government relations during the colonels' dictatorship in Greece (1967-74). Focusing on the Federation of Greek Industries (SEV), I argue that in the face of the Europeanisation of Greek industry, Greek business embarked upon a strategy prioritising liberalisation as a means towards rapprochement with the EEC. But this strategy was not part of a pro-democracy agenda. On the contrary, seeking a viable political regime and future accession to the EEC, SEV supported an abortive authoritarian transition to electoral politics in 1973.


Christos Tsakas holds a Ph.D. (History) from the University of Crete. In his dissertation, entitled 'Greek Business and the European Challenge, 1950s-1970s', he examines the domestic impact of prospective EEC-membership on business-government relations and analyzes Greece's Europeanization in a historical context. He has held postdoctoral positions in Berlin and Florence. As an external researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH he initiated the IMS archives and oral history project, documenting post-war Greek industrialization. His articles have appeared in Business History and Historica.



Tuesday, October 16, 2018

4:30 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103


Supported by The Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund


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