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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 MayThe 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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Published in: HomeAthens shows the way
The Greek people have delivered an unmistakable verdict: out go the ruling incumbents. Greeks have opted instead for...
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Published in: HomeUngoverned Democracy: Greece after the electionsThe results of the elections have brought an end to the post-Junta era in Greek history dominated by New Democracy...
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Published in: HomeFeeling lost
On the eve of the elections, a Greek voter contemplates his choices in a ‘liquidified’ country.
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Published in: HomeChoose4Greece
As the clientelist networks of the past are crumbling, Greek citizens increasingly vote on the basis of their policy...
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Published in: HomeThe colours of disintegration: interpreting the 2012 elections in GreeceEconomic depression is as ever a catalyst for change. This map of the terrain launches a series of analyses of the...
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