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About Vassilis K. Fouskas

Vassilis Fouskas, currently a Professor of International Relations at Richmond University, London, is taking up the chair of International Politics & Economics at the Business School of the University of East London on 1 May. Vassilis K. Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas are the authors of Greece, Financialisation and the EU; the Political Economy of Debt and Destruction, to be published in August by Palgrave-Macmillan. Both have published widely in the field of political theory, political economy, social policy and international relations and their first joint publications date as far back as 1990.

Articles by Vassilis K. Fouskas

Cyprus crisis: swan-song of the Eurozone

Vassilis K. Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas 29 March 2013

Harsh measures imposed on Cypriot political and financial authorities to address bank failures reveal, once again, that the entire architecture of the EU is in tatters. The geopolitics surrounding the Greek Cypriot crisis is pulling the EU further apart and into the unknown.

After the Greek election

Vassilis K. Fouskas 18 June 2012

Whatever the case, one thing is certain: Syriza will further increase its voting power. 

Dear Merkel, beware Greeks bearing geopolitics

Vassilis K. Fouskas 13 June 2012

It is time to stop the chorus of blackmail assailing Syriza, the radical Greek left party poised to win the Sunday election, from all sort of pundits, international officials and, above all, Merkel - along the lines that if their anti-bailout platform wins the June 17 contest then Greece would be pushed out of the Euro. For, the real issue now is not about economics but about the geopolitics of the eastern Mediterranean

Athens shows the way

Vassilis K. Fouskas 7 May 2012

The Greek people have delivered an unmistakable verdict: out go the ruling incumbents. Greeks have opted instead for radical parties that best express their class interests and social values.

And now what? Greece after its official creditor-led default

Vassilis K. Fouskas 12 March 2012
Following Greece’s recent mammoth 206-billion-euro bond swap, people wrongly believe that the private bondholders of the Greek debt lost money and that the country is on a path to recovery. The only solution for Greece remains a debtor-led default and exit from the euro-zone under the leadership of a radical democrat political movement

A Greek tragedy: the making of the Greek and Euro-Atlantic ruling classes

Vassilis K. Fouskas 5 December 2011
Who is George Papandreou? The author challenges what he sees as the defence over recent years on this website of PASOK’s reform agenda by Anthony Barnett and Mary Kaldor. This neoliberalism in sheep’s clothing, he argues, has nothing to do with the radical democratic reform proposed by the Arab uprisings and Occupy movements. This is our latest debate on whether Europe can make it.

Israel’s neo-zionist illusion

Vassilis K. Fouskas 4 June 2010
The true target of the violence onboard the Turkish boat carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on 31 May was the US. But this attempt to force Obama into backing Israel uncritically was based on an outdated, neo-zionist view of geo-politics. For the US is not the power it was

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