Aspects of the cultural Cold War: the US and the case of Greece

The present research project explores aspects of Cold War culture emphasizing on the Greek case. To this aim the focus is on US cultural diplomacy targeted to Greece from the early 1950s to the late 1960s. Our basic assumption is that this is a complex process that tries to balance between often opposite goals (e.g. modernization goals, anti-communist strategy etc.) and ultimately produces hybrid outcomes (aspects of Americanization, emergence of anti-Americanism. The archival research took place and was completed in June 2012 (Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands), while the processing of the main findings and the final synthesis is still ongoing.