Vassilis K. Fouskas

Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of international relations, University of East London and founding editor, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge, eight issues a year since 1998), UK

Shared parenting in Greece: three cheers for the Mitsotakis cabinet

“This coming autumn, the Greek right-wing government will be introducing shared parenting. This is a major egalitarian reform in family law.”

By Vassilis K. Fouskas

/ 29 Jun 2020

Shared parenting in Greece: three cheers for the Mitsotakis cabinet

COVID-19 and the bankruptcy of neoliberalism in the context of Global Shift

The coronavirus crisis could be the “opportunity of the century” for China to cement its place as the world’s global hegemonic power.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay

/ 5 May 2020

COVID-19 and the bankruptcy of neoliberalism in the context of Global Shift

Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean: hybrid warfare, the Balkans and the Near East

Has Turkey weaponized the refugees in a hybrid warfare against a hypocritical Europe and NATO, while Russia is the real winner in Syria? A conversation.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Biljana Vankovska

/ 9 Mar 2020

Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean: hybrid warfare, the Balkans and the Near East

Trump's bankrupt Syria policy: civilians will pay the price

Trump's decision confirms the decline of US power in the Middle East and globally.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay

/ 10 Oct 2019

Trump's bankrupt Syria policy: civilians will pay the price

Greece: July 8

July 7, the date of the national elections in Greece, has come and gone. But July 8 will not bring happiness to any systemic party. It will only bring anxiety, perplexity and fear.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas

/ 8 Jul 2019

Against a second Brexit referendum

The British people, failed by their natural representative, the Labour Party, opted for the nationalist radicalism of Farage’s UKIP. Thus, the demagogues won. But not those who voted for them.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas

/ 1 Dec 2018

Against a second Brexit referendum

The British people, failed by their natural representative, the Labour Party, opted for the nationalist radicalism of Farage’s UKIP. Thus, the demagogues won. But not those who voted for them.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas

/ 1 Dec 2018

The US-Turkey stand-off in context: the US and the weaponisation of global finance

The US, a declining superpower, is trying to use the power of the dollar as a weapon to punish Turkey and other disobedient actors in the international system.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay

/ 3 Sep 2018

What’s in a name: the Macedonian question and the social question

The Macedonian Question will be there for many years to come, easily manipulated by both imperialisms and nationalisms of all kinds.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas

/ 4 Jul 2018

What’s in a name: the Macedonian question and the social question

The Macedonian Question will be there for many years to come, easily manipulated by both imperialisms and nationalisms of all kinds.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas

/ 4 Jul 2018

RIP United Kingdom, 1927-2017

The Tories maintain the electoral momentum and the political initiative, something which is not only going to damage Labour irreversibly, but the entire country, with Brexit negotiations breaking it apart.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas

/ 22 Apr 2017

Class, Trump, Brexit, and the decline of the West

In politics, long-term socio-economic trends and global shifts matter more than often overstated ‘progressive’ discourses about equality, progress and freedom.

By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay

/ 13 Nov 2016