In a world undergoing dramatic changes, the United States approached Greece with terms from the past. They fully militarized their relationship with Athens and supported the regime in exchange for a fragile stability, as evidenced by the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

Ultimately, the fall of the junta brought to power those political forces that the United States sought to hinder. The book analyzes U.S. policy from the perspective of international relations, connecting its main theme, Greek-American relations, with the overall foreign policy of the U.S. during a significant period of the Cold War.

This is to view the issue from the standpoint of a superpower, alongside its regional approach. Was American policy towards Greece dictated solely and always by rational calculations of interest?

Was anti-communism, as a component of the global strategy to contain Soviet power, the only constant in U.S. policy in the region? Did the maintenance and encouragement by the U.S. side of the civil war political system in Greece impose themselves due to the conditions and changes in the relations of the two coalitions, especially during the period of Détente?

Did, and how did, the views of the key architects of American foreign policy influence its approach towards Greece? These are some of the questions the book attempts to answer.