ABSTRACT
The fall of the military dictatorship (1967-74) was followed by a transitional period for Greek society that marked the re-establishment of a democratic regime on the model of liberal European states. In the preceding years, the junta had isolated Greece from the international scene, at the same time imposing a strong anti-democratic policy, exiling and imprisoning opponents and curtailing freedom of speech by censorship and closing down newspapers and part of the press. After 1974, the elected right-wing government faced the challenge of re-establishing democracy, revitalizing the economy and repositioning Greece on the international scene, at the same time as redefining the ‘nation’ in relation to the West and the rest of the world.
