The Greek crisis and European modernity / edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, European University Institute, Italy, Ruby Gropas, European University Institute, Italy and Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and Hara Kouki, European University Institute, Italy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Triandafyllidou, Anna.

Gropas, Ruby.

Kouki, Hara.

Series:

Identities and Modernities in Europe

Identities and modernities in Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Greece--History--21st century.

Financial crises.

International economic relations.

Euro.

History.

Economic conditions.

Greece--Economic conditions--21st century.

Greece.

Euro--Greece--History--21st century.

European Union countries--Foreign economic relations--Greece.

European Union countries.

Greece--Foreign economic relations--European Union countries.

Physical Description:

xvi, 237 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe. By critically reviewing the 'alternative' path to modernization that Greece has taken, the authors question whether the current Greek economic and political-moral crisis is the resulting failure of this model, or whether it is the consequence of a wider crisis in the dominant European economic and political paradigm. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : is Greece a modern European country? / Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas, Hara Kouki

International bubbles, currency union and national failures : the case of Greece and the euro / Loukas Tsoukalis

We are all Greeks now! the crisis in Greece in its European and global context / Yanis Varoufakis

On the Jacobin dimension of Greek constitutional tradition / Ioannis A. Tassopoulos

Memoranda : Greek exceptionalism or the mirror of Europe's future? / George Katrougalos

Religion in contemporary Greece : a modern experience? / Thalia Dragonas

The Orthodox church in Greece today / Stavros Zoumboulakis

The crisis and the welfare state in Greece : a complex relationship / Manos Matsaganis

Is the crisis a watershed moment for the Greek welfare state? the chances for modernization amidst an ambivalent EU record on social Europe / Maria Petmesidou

Postscript : cultural dualism revisited / Nikiforos Diamandouros.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137276247

113727624X

OCLC:

834978597