Stateness and Sovereign Debt Greece in the European Conundrum

The main aim of the project is to examine the present crisis of Greece's political economy as a crisis of stateness, tackling the domestic as well as the international dimensions. The approach aims to fill a major gap, combining insights from comparative political economy, international relations, legal-institutional analysis and political theory, in a theoretically informed account of the Greek case in comparative and theoretical perspective. In so doing, the book situates the case of Greece in the wider European and international context. The book represents the first attempt by Greek academics to present a theoretically-informed, inter-disciplinary analysis of Greece's fiscal, economic, and political crisis. The theoretical tools that have been used by the authors cover a wide spectrum of social science theory. 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, highlighting specific phenomena that occur 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 EU's and the eurozone's weaker periphery unfolds, the book uses the Greek crisis in order to address a much larger and critical issue: the role and predicament of stateness in the developing EU.