such a concept.” In that same context, Clogg notes the growth toward political “maturity” of the Greek state as it had to contend with the heavy influence of the Great Powers in both foreign and domestic affairs. Also, Clogg has clearly utilized recent works by Petropulos, Diamandouros and Legg in describing the phenomenon of political clientelism and the influence of patronage networks in Greek domestic politics. These subordinate themes help to set his larger political focus into a solid analytical framework.
The result is a significant political history of modern Greece in which the reader can also count on accurate and balanced accounts of such issues as the language question, Venizelos republicanism, the Metaxas regime, the divisive Civil War, the colonels’ dictatorship, and the Cyprus issue. An up-to-date bibliography of English language literature is appended.
Because of Clogg’s appreciation for the internal dynamics of Greek politics from the Ottoman period to the present, his account is an improvement over Woodhouse’s more diplomacy-oriented Story of Modern Greece. The Clogg account also reflects the considerable development in modern Greek historiography since the 1960s. However, as Clogg recognizes in his preface, there are significant aspects of Greek history which are underrepresented in this more narrowly political history. Students wishing an introduction to Greek Orthodoxy, modern Greek literature, and Greek social and economic history will still want to use the Campbell/Sherrard volume which is arranged topically and not along lines of political chronology.
One feature unique to the Clogg account is its availability in an attractive paper edition, appropriate for classroom surveys of Balkan history.
Stephen K. Batalden
Arizona State University
Ethnicity and the U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by Abdul Aziz Said. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1977. pp. vii, 180. $17.50.
This interesting symposium has a preface by the editor which advances theoretical generalizations about the ethnic factor in U.S. foreign policy and international politics. It has a section titled “The End of Geopolitics and the Rise of Ethnicity” (pp. 3–6) which is an extremely weak premise and whose assumption is nearly always discarded in the subsequent six chapters of Eastern European, Greeks, Greeks, Jews, Blacks and ethnic politics in Congress. From our point of view, the most interesting is the
