Auswahl der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zum Thema „Civil War (Greece : 1944-1949) fast http“

Defence date: 29 June 2007
Examining Board: Prof. Luisa Passerini, (University of Turin/EUI) ; Prof. Basil C. Gounaris, (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) ; Prof. Stathis N. Kalyvas, (Yale University) ; Prof. Bo Stråth, (EUI)
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Comment les réfugiés de la Guerre civile grecque (1946-1949) vivent-ils la Guerre ? Quelles expériences la vie en exil en Bulgarie socialiste engendre-t-elle ? Ce travail, prenant pour point de départ ces questionnements, présente la vie des réfugiés hellénophones et slavophones qui ont trouvé refuge en Bulgarie à l’époque de la Guerre Froide, pour plus de trois décennies. Basée sur les archives de l’Organisation Démocratique pour la Culture et l’Éducation, la DOMÉ, qui fut fondée en 1962 par les cadres du PCG présents sur place à Sofia, et sur un corpus ethnographique collecté de 2009 à 2011 en Grèce et en Bulgarie, cette recherche couvre une période de 1948 jusqu’à 2010, et elle examine la catégorie analytique du réfugié, à travers le matériau d’archives et les récits de vies des réfugiés eux-mêmes, afin d’apporter des réponses quant à la façon dont l’attente du retour détermine le présent de l’exil, comment l’institution sur place (re)produit, en conditions de privation de la citoyenneté, l’appartenance nationale, comment les expériences des sujets composent de nouvelles identités, tant durant l’exil qu’après celui-ci, quand l’état grec autorise enfin – sous certaines conditions – leur rapatriement ; pour finir, comment les sujets vivent la temporalité dans ces conditions de marginalité, et comment ils dépassent la marginalisation politique et sociale qu’ils se sont vu imposer par le non retour, quand ils repartent dans le pays d’origine. Ce travail de recherche montre comment la catégorie du réfugié, qui dans le cas de la Guerre civile grecque, a composé la figure de l’écart politique et social, constitue dans le même temps un champ de négociation entre les sujets et le pouvoir et où les champs du possible restent à explorer
How did refugees of the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) live through the war? What experiences did life in exile in socialist Bulgaria trigger? This study, based on the latter questions, presents the life of Grecophones and Slavophones who found shelter in Bulgaria for three decades during the Cold War. It is based on the archives of the Democratic Organisation for Culture and Education, DOMÉ, founded in 1962 by the leaders of the Greek Communist Party living in Sofia, and on an ethnographic corpus put together between 2009 and 2011 in Greece and Bulgaria. Covering the years 1948 to 2010, this research piece examines the refugee as an analytical category through the archival material and the testimonies of refugees themselves, in an attempt to explain how refugees' expectation of a return home shaped the present of exile, how local institutions (re)produced a feeling of national belonging when refugees were deprived of citizenship, how subjects developed new identities through their individual experiences, during exile but also afterwards, when the Greek state finally authorised repatriation – under certain conditions. To finish, it looks at how subjects experienced temporality in these circumstances where they were marginalised, and how they managed to transcend the political and social marginalisation imposed on them by their prolonged inability to return home, when they eventually did manage to go back to Greece. This study highlights how the refugee – as an analytical category – has been the embodiment of political and social deviation, while offering at the same time a space of negotiation between subjects and power, where the scope of possibilities remains open

This study explores the foundations of US counterinsurgency policy and doctrine in order to better understand the main historical influences on that policy and doctrine and how those influences have informed the current US approach to counterinsurgency. The results of this study indicate the US experience in counterinsurgency during the Greek Civil War and the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines had a significant influence on the development of US counterinsurgency policy and doctrine following World War II through the Kennedy presidency. In addition, despite a major diversion from the lessons of Greece and the Philippines during the Vietnam War, the lessons were re-institutionalized in US counterinsurgency policy and doctrine following the war and continue to have significant influence today, though in a highly sanitized and, therefore, misleading form. As a result, a major disconnect has developed between the “rhetoric and reality” of US counterinsurgency policy. This disconnect has resulted from the fact that many references that provide a more complete and accurate picture of the actual policies and actions taken to successfully defeat the insurgencies have remained out of the reach of non-government researchers and the general public. Accordingly, many subsequent studies of counterinsurgency overlook, or only provide a cursory treatment of, aspects that may have had a critical impact on the success of past US counterinsurgency operations. One such aspect is the role of US direct intervention in the internal affairs of a supported country. Another is the role of covert action operations in support of counterinsurgency operations. As a result, the counterinsurgency policies and doctrines that have been developed over the years are largely based on false assumptions, a flawed understanding of the facts, and a misunderstanding of the contexts concerning the cases because of misleading, or at least seriously incomplete, portrayals of the counterinsurgency operations.

Defence date: 28 May 1999
Examining Board: Prof. Antonis Liakos, University of Athens ; Prof. Mark Mazower, Princeton University ; Prof. Luisa Passerini, EUI (supervisor) ; Prof. Bo Stråth, EUI
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Voglis examines the relationship between the specific subject of political prisoners, and certain practices of punishment in the context of a polarization that led to civil war in Greece from 1946 to 1949. He asks what impact an exceptional situation, such as a civil war, has on practices of punishment; how the category of political prisoners is constructed; how a social and political subject is made; and how political prisoners experienced their internment.