Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London and Member of the Greek Parliament for Pireas. His latest book Syriza in Power: Reflections of an Accidental Politician was published by Polity in 2017.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A call for a new European social contractCall for a new progressive and democratic front in Europe. A statement of intellectuals and academics on the state...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Greece, August 2018: a mid-term report from a Syriza MP"Are the critics of Tsipras right? This is the first government in a European crisis country that will complete its...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macedonia and ideologySomewhere between our imagination, truth and the others’ desires we move, in different paths, towards the 'Macedonia...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Finis Europae? Historical cycles and the rise of right wing populismWhy has Europe failed to inspire its citizens in a similar way to other ideas such as the nation, socialism or human...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Human rights for MartiansThe human rights movement can be seen as the ongoing but failing struggle to close the gap between the abstract man...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Cities of refugeThe 1951 Geneva Convention on Political Asylum was a typical creation of the Cold War: the system cannot deal with...