Othon Anastasakis is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), Senior Research Fellow and former Director of the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He has written extensively on authoritarian regimes, extreme right, EU-Balkan relations, Greek politics, democratisation in the Balkans, Turkish-European relations, Russia in the Balkans and South East European historical legacies. He is the Principal Investigator of the SEESOX Diaspora Project in Oxford His books include Reforming Greece: Sisyphean task or Herculean challenge? (with Dorian Singh), SEESOX 2012 ; Balkan Legacies of the Great War: The Past is Never Dead (with Madden and Roberts) Palgrave Macmillan 2015; and The Legacy of Yugoslavia: Politics Economics and Society in the Modern Balkans (with Bennett, Madden and Merdzanovic), Bloomsbury 2020.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionBetween host and home: vulnerable European migrant workers of the UK at the mercy of coronavirusIs the pandemic creating a lost generation of young European migrants from the south and east of Europe, a lost...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The five 'infections' of the social democratic 'family' in the Western BalkansSocial democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Grexit to Brexit: “Be careful what you wish for!”There is an ironic parallel in the methodology of emotion and national dignity employed by both the left-wing Syriza...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The good, the bad and the ugly: when SYRIZA meets EuropeThe EU has shown three simultaneous faces to Greece: ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’, to use a cinematic metaphor,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The balkanisation of Greece’s centre-left politicsGreece’s centre-left Pasok, one of the most prominent parties in post-1980 Europe, is now a pale shadow of itself...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The far right in Greece and the theory of the two extremesThe far right in Greece has become completely independent from the right, and is turning into a loose canon against...