Stateness and Sovereign Debt: Greece in the European Conundrum

Lavdas, Kostas A. & Spyridon N. Litsas & Dimitrios V. Skiadas

ISBN 10: 149851099X / ISBN 13: 9781498510998

Editore: Lexington Books, 2013

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• Titolo: Stateness and Sovereign Debt: Greece in the European Conundrum
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 149851099X
• ISBN 13: 9781498510998
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: As New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sugli autori

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.

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 at the University of Athens, Greece, (LL.B), and the University of Durham, UK, (M.Jur & Ph.D.), and has specialised on issues relating to European Union Law, Public Law, Budgetary Law, and Project Management. He has taught courses on European Union Law and other topics regarding his expertise at the University of Durham (Department of Law), the Hellenic Air Force Academy, the University of Athens (Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme of the Department of Economics and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications), and the University of Central Greece (Department of Regional Economic Development).