ABSTRACT
Greece has been the focus of international attention in recent times largely because of its financial circumstances, the necessity to negotiate solutions to these problems with international and supranational agencies and an unstable political context that has seen governments come and go. This was a major context influencing young people who responded to our survey on youth civic engagement the results of which will be reported alter in the chapter.
At the same time, in terms of the major focus of this book, Greece was not part of the Soviet orbit in the post-Second World War era and so represents a kind of ‘control group’ in terms of having charted its own course rather than have its development dictated by the SU. Yet the context as described earlier was by no means neutral; it was simply different from most of the other countries in this volume that directly experienced Soviet authoritarianism and control.
