This book examines the present crisis of Greece's political economy as a crisis of stateness, tackling the domestic as well as the international dimensions. It represents the first attempt by Greek academics to put forward a theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary analysis of Greece's fiscal, economic, and political crisis. The approach aims to fill a major gap, combining insights from comparative politics, political economy, international relations theory, and legal-institutional analysis, in a theoretically informed account of the Greek case in comparative and theoretical perspective. The book tackles the issue of the possible next steps for the EU under the influence of the crisis of the eurozone, including a thorough analysis of national sovereignty seen from a domestic and an international point of view, focusing on critical processes in the international arena such as interdependency and dependency, while a legal-institutional chapter demonstrates the erratic way in which Greek government dealt with sovereign debt.
The project comes at the right time in order to address a highly contentious chapter in the political development of the Greek state and of the European South. As the crisis in the eurozone's weaker periphery unfolds, Lavdas, Litsas, and Skiadas use the Greek crisis in order to address a much larger and critical issue: the role and predicament of stateness in the developing EU.
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Kostas A. Lavdas is Professor of European Politics and Head, Department of Political Science, University of Crete, Greece where he was previously Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Personnel and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Born in Athens in 1964, he studied political science, political sociology, public policy and international relations in Athens, the UK (at LSE and Manchester), and the USA (at MIT). He has published extensively in English, German and Greek on European politics, Greek politics and policy, comparative interest group politics and applied political theory. He has taught (as a Professor, an Associate Professor and a Senior Lecturer) and researched (as a Senior Research Fellow and a Research Associate) at several universities and research centers in Europe and the USA.
Inhalt
Introducing Stateness under Strain: Greece in the European Conundrum
Kostas A. Lavdas
Chapter 1: Junctures of Stateness: The Historical and Regional Context
Kostas A. Lavdas
Chapter 2: State and Sovereignty: Mythical Talos and the Politics of Conventional Rationality
Spyridon N. Litsas
Chapter 3: Sovereignty and International Politics: Interdependence, Self-Help and Survival
Spyridon N. Litsas
Chapter 4: Tackling Greece's Financial Crisis: A Legal - Institutional Viewpoint
Dimitris V. Skiadas
Afterword: On the Different Ways of Transforming Stateness
Kostas A. Lavdas, Spyridon N. Litsas, Dimitris V. Skiadas