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Published in: HomeAfter the KatastroikaWhile European governments breathed a sigh of relief as their preferred candidates won, Syriza will continue to...
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Published in: openEconomyOpen letter to a good friend and colleague
... who happened to become Greece’s Finance Minister yesterday…
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Published in: HomeEurozone crisis: between meurons and zombies
Europe's financial-existential crisis has been intensified at every stage by the incomprehension and misjudgment of...
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Published in: HomeModern Greek history podcast, parts 2 and 3
Parts 2 (50 mins) and 3 (50 mins) of the generalists' introduction to modern Greek history take us from 1920 to the...
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Published in: HomeRenegotiating Greece
All leaders have to present any negotiation outcomes in terms of benefits for their constituents rather than the...
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Published in: Home“Syriza is the expression of a new radicalism on the left”: excerpt of an interview with Stathis Kouvélakis in late May
The rise of Syriza is a profound transformation for a radical left that is still traumatized by the defeat of Greek...
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Published in: HomeHow to impose austerity and destroy culture: the example of the Mediterranean
As the European crisis intensifies, the Mediterranean’s cultural funding is increasingly landing on the chopping...
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Published in: openEconomyGreek election result: an assessment
The New Democracy party will lead the government even though it is utterly clear that at least one in three of the...
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Published in: HomeAfter the Greek election
Whatever the case, one thing is certain: Syriza will further increase its voting power.
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Published in: HomeHistory podcast - the birth of modern Greece
In this hour-long informal conversation, Terence Mitchison provides the historian's background to the modern Greek...
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Published in: HomeBelief in the Union: solidarity with the Greeks
They think ‘Europe’ is ‘foreign affairs’. But Europe is nothing if it is not its citizens. That is why, the day...
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Published in: HomeGREXIT and the sovereign crisis of trust: why the Greeks should not accept the German terms of austerity
Greeks should not accept Germany's austerity measures but should remain in the euro, and ultimately seek a federal...
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Published in: HomeDear Merkel, beware Greeks bearing geopolitics
It is time to stop the chorus of blackmail assailing Syriza, the radical Greek left party poised to win the Sunday...
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Published in: HomeElite hauteur: Greece, Niger and the IMF
It may be time to remind ourselves of the parallels between today's IMF-Merkel-Cameron package for Europe’s nations...
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Published in: HomeMapping Greece's forthcoming electionsAs Greek electoral law awards the party that comes first 50 bonus seats in the country’s 300-seat parliament,...
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Published in: HomeGreece and the eurozone: managing the crisis
A Greek exit from the European single currency would not bring the catharsis that some expect. Rather, it will...
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Published in: HomeThe Alabama syndrome
The European Union is not the United States; Germany is not Massachusetts; and Greece is not Alabama, more’s the pity.
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Published in: HomeThe politics of suicide: Greece and Europe poised between two elections
New Democracy needs strategies that cut to the bone: it has to foster fright at a surging far left, it has to force...
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Published in: HomeEuropean dis-Union: lessons of the Soviet collapse
Europe's crisis is being felt at multiple levels, from the future of the eurozone and divisions between...
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Published in: HomeThe extinction of the Greek dinosaurs?
The collapse of the two formerly dominant Greek parties, PASOK and New Democracy, has left a gaping void in the...
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