Greece's Association Agreement to the EEC: the view of negotiations from the Ioannis Pesmazoglou archives

In our collective memory, the Association Agreement of 1961 is usually overshadowed by Greece’s full accession to the EEC in 1981. While plausible on a symbolic level, this difference in emphasis is unfair to the Association Agreement, both as a political initiative and as a diplomatic venture. In this book, the associate professor of history at the University of Sheffield and the American College of Greece, Irini Karamouzi, discusses the development of negotiations through dozens of documents and photographs from the Archive of Ioannis (Yangos) Pesmazoglou, places the Greek case in its international context and sheds light on invisible sides of the accession process.