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Published in: HomeThe road to Europe: the making of the Union’s crisisYes, European leaders could all agree when it came to imposing austerity on Athens, Dublin, Lisbon and Rome,...
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Published in: HomeThe flotilla and the siege – resistance and complicityWhile the second flotilla to Gaza prepared to set sail this week under the motto ‘Stay Human,’ Europe moved a step...
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Published in: HomeThe Greek trilemmaThe crisis in Greece can be seen as an illustration of a trade-off between sovereignty, democracy and globalization....
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Published in: HomeGreece – a year in crisisExamining the social and political impact of an unprecedented austerity programme
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Movement for a New Direction
The nature of capitalism over the last three decades has led to the present crisis in the West. A counter-movement...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe movement that needs no nameA global movement is taking shape. The failure of neoliberalism, the development of new technologies, a burgeoning...
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Published in: HomeGreek protest in Syntagma Square: in between post-politics and real democracy
Syntagma Square is a political response to a highly polarised political establishment that has repeatedly failed in...
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Published in: HomeGreece’s exit from the eurozone: a poisoned chalice
In times like these not making a big mistake is half a battle won.
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Published in: HomeFacing the Greek crisis: it’s the politics, stupid
As 200,000 people, led by a movement across Greece calling itself ‘The Outraged’, surround the parliament in Athens...
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Published in: HomeGreece’s other imminent crisis
Could politics in Greece prove even more dangerous than its economics?
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Published in: HomeEurope and its myopic leaders
Europe’s leaders are reversing their historically generous role in assisting countries out of criminality and...
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Published in: HomeRemnants of a Greek past, image from the future
The tendency to deflect all discussion of protest and resistance onto the issue of violence is also misleading when...
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Published in: openEconomyIf Greece's crisis has political roots, it will have a solution in wide-ranging institutional reform
Greece isn’t working… Reforms need to turn a people that has accustomed itself to practices of excessive consumption...
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Published in: openEconomyThe causes of the Greek crisis are in Greek politics
The Greek crisis came out of marrying a European project with a specifically Greek political culture of populism and...
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Published in: openSecurityLetter bombing campaign uncovered in Greece
Multiple bombs destined for top-level targets discovered in Greece. Iran chides Russia over decision not to honour...
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Published in: openSecurityAbyei referendum to be delayed, say northern officials
Vote in Abyei to be delayed, say northern officials, stoking fears of a return to conflict in Sudan. Greek police...
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Published in: openEconomyThe real Greek economy: owners, rentiers and opportunists
Rebuilding the Greek economy will require creative interaction with the underlying realities of Greek society: the...
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Published in: openSecurityRhetoric and reality: the clash of civilisations from Classical Greece to today
The concept of the ‘clash of civilisations’ is usually traced back to Classical Greece. In Classical times as today,...
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Published in: HomeEurope faces stark choice between dissolution and cohesion after Greek crisis
The Greek crisis may spur further integration in the EU, rather than signal its downfall.
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Published in: openSecurityAfrican Union warns of bombing campaign in SomaliaAfrican Union warns of bomb attacks in Somalia. Nigerian President Yar’Adua dies. Greek austerity protests turn...
