Contemporary Greece and Europe
Published on 22. September 2000
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-1-84014-728-5 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary Greek society is characterized by an all-embracing trend for reform. This task, however, is constrained by problems of Greek polity rooted in the historical and political culture. This text explores the important facets of divergence between Greece and the EU, examining the process through which they affect the relative performance of the country in the economic, social, political and international relations fronts, together with significant attempts to modernize and rationalize internal and external policies and structures. The book is in five parts. In the first, introductory, section, Greece's Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, the late Yannos Kranidiotis, analyzes the fundamental objectives of Greek foreign policy, whilst the editors explore the challenges of EU membership for Greek domestic and foreign politics, and Greece's participation in the process of European integration. The second part deals with Greece and the EMU, the third analyzes the issues related to state modernization and adjustment.
A fourth section examines the welfare state and related policies, and the final part analyzes Greece's foreign policy and external relations, with particular emphasis on the Balkans and Greek-Turkish relations.
A fourth section examines the welfare state and related policies, and the final part analyzes Greece's foreign policy and external relations, with particular emphasis on the Balkans and Greek-Turkish relations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 223 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84014-728-5 (9781840147285)
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Content
Part 1 Contemporary Greece and Europe: contemporary Greece and Europe - introduction and synopsis, Elias Mossialos and Achilleas Mitsos; the fundamental objectives of Greek foreign policy, Yannos Kranidiotis; Greece in the Eu - domestic reform coalitions, external constraints and high politics, Lukas Tsoukalis; maximizing contribution to the European integration process as a prerequisite for the maximization of gains, Achilleas Mitsos. Part 2 Greece and EMU: the Greek economy converging towards EMU, Nicos Christodoulakis; Greece and EMU - prospects and challenges, Nikolas Garganas; the Greek economy and the euro, George Alogoskoufis; EMU and Greek macro-economic policy in the 1990s, Michael G. Arghyrou. Part 3 State modernization and adjustment: Greece and the European Union after Amsterdam, Dimitris Chryssochoou, Stelios Stavridis and Andreas Moschonas; the changing role of the Greek state in view of EMU, Panagiotis Liargovas; the six syndromes of structural adjustments - or what Greek privatization can teach us, George Pagoulatos; public infrastructure as a determinant factor of the economic performance of a Greek industrial output, Emmanouel C. Mamatzakis; institutional networks, learning and Greece's adaptation within European regional policy, Christos J. Paraskevopoulos; Greek orthodoxy and European identity, Efterpe Fokas. Part 4 Social policies: social protection in Greece in the nineties - reforming the "weak" welfare state, Maria Petmezidou; poverty and anti-poverty policies in Greece and a comparison with other Mediterranean EU member states, Panos Tsakloglou. Part 5 Foreign policies and external relations; the Europeanization of Greece's foreign policy - progress and problems, Panagiotis c. Ioakimidis; Greece in a post-Cold War environment, Theodore A. Couloumbis; Kosovo - a Greek appraisal, Thanos Veremis; Greece's contribution to European political co-operation policies towards former Yugoslavia, June 1991-January 1992 - an institutional analysis, Aristotle Tziampiris; Greece and the EU-Turkish relationship, harris C. Georgiadis; Geece and the Balkans - economic relations, Axel Sotiris Wallden; are Greek companies that invest in the Balkans in the 1990s transnational companies?, Lois Lambrianidis.