Stateness and Sovereign Debt

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.

Auteur
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. Author of The Europeanization of Greece: Interest Politics and the Crises of Integration (London / New York: Macmillan / St Martin's Press, 1997), Politics, Subsidies and Competition: The New Politics of State Intervention in the European Union (with M. Mendrinou) (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999), Formation and Development of the European Communities (in Greek) (Patras: Hellenic Open University, 2003), Interests and Politics: Interest Organization and Patterns of Governance (in Greek) (Athens: Papazisis, 2004), Politics between the Potential and the Familiar (in Greek) (Athens: Sideris, 2010), and A Republic of Europeans: Civic Potential in a Liberal Milieu (with D. Chryssochoou) (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011). Co-editor (with D. Chryssochoou) of European Unification and Political Theory: The Challenge of Republicanism (in Greek) (Athens: Sideris, 2004) and (with D. Chryssochoou and D. Xenakis) of Directions in the Study of International Relations (in Greek) (Athens: Sideris, 2010). Author of numerous chapters in international volumes (The Political Economy of Privatization, Verbaende und Verbandssysteme in Westeuropa, Republicanism in Theory and Practice, The New Balkans, among others) and articles in distinguished international journals (including European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Politics, among others). He regularly serves as a referee for international journals (including Political Studies, European Journal of Political Theory, Journal of European Public Policy, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and others) and research funding institutions (including the ESRC of the UK). He has served as a member of the Board at the Hellenic Center for European Studies (EKEM) and at the Center for Educational Research (KEE). In 2007-2008 he was the Constantine Karamanlis Professor of Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, and in 2009 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute, Hellenic Observatory, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Spyridon N. Litsas is Assistant Professor of International Relations Theory at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece. Born in Chania, Crete in 1974, he studied Politics and European Studies (BA Hons) at the University of Central Lancashire (UK), and International Relations (Ph.D) at the University of Durham (UK). He is the author of the monograph War and Rationality: A Theoretical Analysis, Athens: Poiotita Publications, 2010. In addition, he has published in various scientific journals both in Greek and English and has participated in collective volumes about I.R. Theory and Strategic Analysis. He is a visiting Professor at the Joint Supreme War College of the Hellenic Army, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, while he is a frequent guest lecturer at the School of Information Analysis of the Hellenic Army and at the NATO Deployable Corps H.Q. Thessaloniki. During 2006-2009 was a Research Fellow of the Institute of Defence Analysis (IAA). Last but not least, he is a frequent contributor to major Greek newspapers on international politics issues and I.R. Theory, mainly about the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean, European Politics, Islamic fundamentalism etc.

Dimitrios V. Skiadas is Assistant Professor of European Governance at the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Macedonia, Greece. He was born in Athens, Greece, in 1973. He has studied Law...

Contenu

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