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September 1979 - December 1987
May 2002 - present
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- Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics
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When can crises overcome the fragmentation of a core executive and facilitate a centralised management response? Here, we identify the latter by reference to the concept of a ‘crisis response network’ (CRN). We draw on several literatures that refer to crisis centralisation and develop hypotheses that comprise likely
contributing factors. We explor...
Greece has defined ‘Europe’ in many and diverse ways. But Europe—in the form of the Great Powers and/or the European Union (EU)—has also structured so much of Greece’s developmental path. Historically, the Great Powers—Britain, France and Russia—were drawn in to determine the fate of the emergent modern nation, but their intervention drew back from...
This rejoinder responds to the eight comments to our report on ‘Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals’. We address questions related to our definition of Europe, the notion of power, context and appropriateness of the scenario approach, the feasibility of enhancing European power, the rationale behind the propose...
In the present context of intensifying competition between the major trading blocs and potentially game-changing technological developments, the European Union is generally seen as the weaker party. Lacking the ‘hard power’ derived from military capabilities, it has laid claim to a ‘soft power’ of normative influence externally, yet even that is on...
The multi-level governance of the European Union (EU) makes the adoption and implementation of its laws and policies vulnerable to the variation in the ability of member state institutions to deliver on their obligations. Studies of EU law compliance have established the relevance of institutional capacity to member state performance. This paper co...
First, in-depth study of Greek government on the inside.
Features extensive primary sources of original data, archival materials, and personal interviews with the leading players.
Places the Greek case in a clear comparative and conceptual frame.
This book is concerned with a large question in one small, but highly problematic case: how can a prime...
Levering domestic reform via external conditionality has become crucial to the rescues of European Union member states in the context of the eurozone crisis. This article examines a critical case – Greece – and a problematic sector – reform of the central state administration – to assess the applicability of three hypotheses advanced by Schimmelfen...
Letter in 'Nature':
Greek politics stall
research reforms
The ongoing damage to Greek
scientific research is not solely
due to austerity measures
(Nature 517, 127–128; 2015).
In my experience as a member
of Greece’s National Council
for Research and Technology
from 2010 to 2014, political
manipulation and institutional
weakness are also contributor...
International attention has focused recently on the reform “failures” of Greece in the context of its European Union membership. Systemic constraints are increasingly recognized. The present article argues that attention ought also to be given to the inner workings of government at the center and their undermining of reform capacity. It explores th...
This paper explores the extent to which current reforms of the euro-zone’s governance remain encased in the constraints of the Maastricht Treaty - the narrowness of its underlying paradigm; the gaps and imbalances of its design – and the implications for the future of the euro. With a model of ‘sound money, sound finances’, based on the precepts of...
This paper explores the extent to which current reforms of the euro-zone’s governance remain encased in the constraints of the Maastricht Treaty - the narrowness of its underlying paradigm; the gaps and imbalances of its design – and the implications for the future of the euro. With a model of ‘sound money, sound finances’, based on the precepts of...
This volume has an ambitious task – to assess the performance and impact of the Lisbon 2000 Programme – and one that is made analytically complex by the multifarious dimensions involved. Essentially, the Programme is a ‘soft law’ package of very mixed elements, entailing a loose commitment device for the adjustment or compliance of Member States. A...
The recent crisis of the Greek economy, and the threat of its withdrawal from the Eurozone, was only averted by the rejection of a referendum on the EU bail-out and the resignation of the country’s prime minister. Kevin Featherstone argues that, while the situation has now stabilised, instability and uncertainty still remain. European and global ec...
The Greek sovereign debt crisis of 2010 exposed the weaknesses of governance of both the ‘euro area’ and of Greece. Successive governments in Athens had failed to overcome endemic problems of low competitiveness, trade and investment imbalances, and fiscal mismanagement placing the economy in a vulnerable international position. Once the market cri...
Why, when faced with a brutal occupation and then a bloody civil war, did the Muslims on Greece's border with Turkey remain passive? The Lausanne Treaty of 1923 had recognized them as a vulnerable minority and there were a number of international and local factors that might have led to ethnic conflict. This first in-depth historical study of the m...
As WWII entered its closing stages, the power struggle for control of Western Thrace assumed a renewed urgency, both internationally and locally. With the advance of the Red Army, the Fascist Bulgarian regime at home collapsed. Subsequent Bulgarian attempts to re-write the history of Sofia’s entanglement with the Axis forces and maintain access to...
The changing fortunes of the military conflict between the government forces and the DSE exposed the Muslim community of Western Thrace to two very different kinds of authority. In the big towns and (most of) the lowland villages, the pre-war state apparatus began to return gradually from March 1945 onwards, ending the de facto dominance that EAM h...
Civil wars necessitate recruitment and propaganda to execute the conflict and gain supporters. The strategies deployed in these respects display how the conflict is conceived and who it embraces. This chapter explores the local operations of the conflict and considers how they were structured by the wider national context. In doing so, it locates t...
With the extent of control exercised by the new Bulgarian authorities in Western Thrace, the local Muslim population (as indeed all other ethnic groups) was forced to adapt and to learn how to survive. Most starkly, they were confronted by strategic choices: resistance, collaboration, or passivity? This chapter explores the evidence as to how the M...
The primary aim of the case study that has been presented in the previous chapters was to address the historical puzzle of why the Muslim minority in Western Thrace remained passive and disengaged from collaboration or resistance under the Axis occupation and insurgency during the civil war. The puzzle was founded on a number of factors that might...
The previous chapter outlined how Western Thrace in the 1930s had come to enjoy a certain level of stability. This chapter adds to that account how Greco-Turkish rapprochement provided a conducive context for the local stability. With the threat of war, both Greece and Turkey set about constructing common security alliances.
With the invasion complete, the occupation of Western Thrace created new challenges to the local society. How would the authorities deal with the various socio-ethnic groups? What favour/discrimination would be shown and how would the communities respond? How would the new policies affect the demographic mix of the area and the relations between th...
In 1923, the American Geographical Society (AGS), seeking to convey the context of recent events to its readers, declared that ‘The debatable ground of Thrace has long been a political storm belt’ (AGS 1923: 127). Indeed it had and for a variety of reasons. Before examining the events of the 1940s, it is therefore necessary to examine the longer-te...
We do have a debate here. Because there are a number of points that Costas has just made that I would disagree with. Why has Greece entered this crisis? I think what made Greece vulnerable cannot be divorced from the domestic conditions. It was ultimately, I think, a crisis invented in Greece. It was a comfortable blame shift away from the general...
This article outlines recent scholarship on the influences of Europeanization on British politics to evaluate what has been learned to date. The discussion provides a brief survey of research straddling policy, political actors, and institutions. The article also argues that, though Britain generally does indeed represent a distinctive case, the ev...
The study of British politics has been reinvigorated in recent years as a generation of new scholars seeks to build-upon a distinct disciplinary heritage while also exploring new empirical territory and finds much support and encouragement from previous generations in forging new grounds in relation to theory and methods. It is in this context that...
This is the fourth volume in a series sponsored by the Social Science Research Council of the United States and the American Council of Learned Societies, under the program title, "The Nature and Consequences of Democracy in the New Southern Europe." The previous volumes are: The Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative...
With Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the European Union is embarked on a major historic political project of formidable technical complexity. In January 2009 the Euro Area will be ten years old. What does the evidence from the first decade tell us about the significance of the euro for the EU and its member states? This book brings together a ran...
The previous chapter examined the external stimulus to reform represented by the pressures of the EU. The Europeanization literature delves into the domestic conditions that might affect the processes of adaptation to such stimuli. Yet the further such a search progresses, the greater the need to consider different literatures that focus on the dom...
The EU’s aspiration of creating an open, flexible market among its member states confronts head-on the twin dilemmas of the limitations of its own policy instruments and the in-built resistance to liberal reform found at the domestic level. The single European market created new sets of competitive pressure at the national level, but left governmen...
Pension reform has proved to be difficult and controversial in many European countries in recent years. The EU’s attempts to coordinate a reform programme in this area face major challenges at the national level: not least, differences of model and of opposition from current stakeholders. At the same time, there are strong fiscal imperatives for re...
The domestic impact of the EU entails a mix of policy instruments emanating from ‘Brussels’. Some are ‘hard’ laws, such as EU directives or policy rules set by treaties. Others involve policy coordination with ‘soft’ instruments of sharing best practice and/or the Commission urging preferred solutions. Domestic actors must distinguish between these...
This study seeks to use the Greek experience as a test case. There are two major types of tests applied here. The first is of the extent to which EU membership has facilitated domestic economic and social reform. This is now commonly termed a test of the impact of ‘Europeanization’. The conceptual framework for this test is the focus of this chapte...
Comparisons of national economic performance or of welfare provision often seek to explain these by reference to the crucial distinguishing structural conditions of each domestic system, grouping countries into relevant typologies. In this context, Greece often stands as something of an exception to the dominant typologies or is simply left out. Th...
IN THE SEVEN YEARS SINCE THE FALL OF THE COLONELS' dictatorship in Greece, a new Greek party has established firm political roots. With the accession of Greece to the European Community on 1 January 1981, the new parties have been brought into the Western European political orbit, a development which marks the rehabilitation of a political system o...
In recent years much debate has been generated over the reshaping of the European airline industry and the restructuring of many of the heavily indebted national flag-carriers across the European Union. The European Commission has sought to orchestrate this reform process by the gradual break up of monopolies in air travel and its associated servic...
This analysis of the attitudes of British Labour Members of Parliament towards European integration focuses in particular on attitudes towards three themes: integrationist policies, the ‘national interest’ and ideological identification. Based on the results of a survey of Labour MPs, it suggests the importance of the ideology and national interest...
The paper analyses the change and continuity in electoral support from the pre-dictatorship period to the years following 1974. It analyses the geography of the election results both by region and by type of area, and it also examines the results of a pre-election opinion survey in 1981 which categorized voters by age, sex, level of education, and...
The paper examines the process of pension reform in Greece in the context of the ‘soft' policy constraint (on structural reform) emanating from the European Union. It argues that the EU stimulus to reform complemented a set of domestic pressures. However, the domestic system of interest mediation has largely thwarted reform. The reform process is m...
Contemporary Greek politics are marked by tensions between pressures for reform and the structural constraints to their realisation. The pressures combine those emanating from processes of Europeanisation (European Union agendas on economic reform, for example) and the domestic demand for ‘modernisation' (the agenda of former Premier Simitis). The...
Kevin Featherstone is the editor of this special issue of Western European Politics.
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), on the one hand, and existing models of labor market regulation and welfare provision within the European Union (EU), on the other, have often been assumed to stand in contradiction to one another. The re-appearance of EMU on the European agenda in the late 1980s, following the de-regulation paradigm of the Single...
EMU was an agenda determined outside Greece and it represents the importation of a radical new policy paradigm. In gaining entry into the 'euro' system, EMU has been the stimulus to profound change in Greek macroeconomic policy. However, the developing EU agenda on structural reform highlights the dilemmas of policy-making in Athens: the uncertain...
This introductory chapter defines the purpose of the book, which is to bring together recognized experts in the field to distinguish the conceptual meaning of 'Europeanization' and to analyse its empirical implications. In order to set the context it seeks to chart the uses of the term 'Europeanization' and to clarify how it will be used in the res...
This conclusion draws together the discussion and results presented in the foregoing chapters. It has three sections. The first, 'Europeanization: Fad, Political Concern, or New Research Agenda?', shows that the contributions to the book attest to Europeanization as a possible new research agenda. The second, 'The Contours of Europeanization', look...
The Politics of Europeanization looks at the political aspects of European integration from the viewpoint of domestic politics. In so doing, it goes beyond the classic analysis of 'how policies are made in Brussels' and raises instead the question 'what is the power of Europe in national contexts?'.Whereas standard books on domestic politics and Eu...
This is an ambitious and innovative study of the processes of democratization evident in Greece after 1974. It has two major distinctions. Firstly, it is based on an extensive range of personal interviews with some of the protagonists involved, as well as on archival searches. Secondly, the empirical analysis is placed within relevant theoretical f...
Discussion of pensions in Greece displays a paradox: reform is universally acknowledged to be important, urgent and mature, yet the political class avoid and postpone all discussion. This results in a syncopated reform path. A historical overview indicates that reforms are best understood as interrupted and unsuccessful attempts to complete the ori...
This paper examines how Greek actors participated in the negotiations
on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) that led to the Maastricht Treaty
in 1991. It asks: who set policy and strategy, why,
how, and with what effect. The preferences, strategies,
and institutional context of the actors are understood by reference
to the conceptual framework of ra...
This article analyzes the EU's impact on Cyprus during its ‘pre-accession’ phase. The processes of Europeanization are considered in terms of the structural transformation of state–economy relations (in which ‘empowerment’ is diffuse and differentiated among domestic actors); and the adaptation of the state administration (to the demands of coordin...
This article introduces the theme of ‘Europeanization’ in the context of the focus on contemporary southern and Mediterranean Europe. In applying the term ‘periphery’ to the region, it argues that the major contrasts that exist between it and the ‘core’ EU states serve to highlight in stark terms the challenges endemic within the Europeanization pr...
Economic and monetary union in the European Union represents a massive change for Europe and for the world. The Road to Maastricht identifies why the agreement was possible and how the agreement was made. The book examines the motives that inspired European political leaders, the strategies that they pursued, and the institutions that were used to...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the manageme...
