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?Democracy rising: what now for Syriza and Europe?A discussion on how Europeans can relaunch the struggle for a democratic Europe in the aftermath of Syriza's fight...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Referendum and democracy: putting the demos on stageThe referendum takes the lesson of the squares to the heart of politics. The stakes are high: Greek destiny, the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What is a University and what does it need?Greece needs a radical overhaul of its corrupt University system. The creation of autonomous University Councils,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A very European coupThis is why Syriza's negotiating strategy has to play to the European gallery and not just to the suits in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Syriza: the Greek springThe 2015 Greek elections mark the beginning of the end of a cycle that started in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights and the paradoxes of liberalism
Human rights are a hybrid of liberal law, morality and politics. Their ideological power lies in their ambiguity,...