ABSTRACT
Political instability in Greece in the post-World War II period and the Greek Civil War allowed Britain in 1944, and the United States since 1947, to act decisively and determine Greece’s domestic and foreign policy orientation. The devastation of Greece after a decade of international and domestic warfare and the political instability that followed provided other opportunities for foreign interference in Greek politics. Cyprus then was one of many examples of the subordination of Greek national interests to those of Greece’s allies and protectors. PASOK was the first non-Communist Greek political party to ever advocate a dramatic departure from the country’s traditional foreign policy principles. Greece, as an underdeveloped country on the capitalist periphery, was economically, politically and militarily dependent on the West. PASOK was the first non-Communist party to articulate the criticism of US influence on Greek politics and foreign policy in unequivocal terms.
