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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (1): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2016
...George Bistis The year 2015 started with a great promise for austerity-harmed people in Greece, but within a few months the promise began to fade as reality sunk in. It was a year that the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) achieved a historic electoral triumph in Greece. SYRIZA came to power...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (3): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2013
...' anxieties brought about by economic crisis, illegal immigration issues, high unemployment rates, increases in crime, anti-austerity public sentiments, and the uncertainty over the country's future to become, in just a few years, a formidable political party in Greece. George Bistis is an award-winning...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (2): 6–32.
Published: 01 June 2014
... for its ambition to strengthen and develop its regional partnerships in order to enhance security and stability there. NATO’s ambitions are likely to be hampered by competing priorities within the alliance, as the as the members are increasingly facing diverging interests and financial austerity as well...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (3): 52–73.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the Greek state is forced to undergo holistic austerity. This essay supports the view that Greece is a failing state: it suffers a systemic ailment and declines rapidly but has not yet reached its bottom. It can reemerge as a healthy state, but only if a “grand strategy” is applied. This essay scrutinizes...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (3): 18–28.
Published: 01 September 2015
... government pledged to end austerity, reverse privatization, and reforms and to achieve at least partial debt forgiveness. A Greek departure from the eurozone was possible. A Greece adrift would leave it vulnerable to the blandishments of Russia, China, and other parties. Should such a shift occur, it would...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (3): 5–17.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to make, and it has been amply proven by the victory of the Greek Syriza party in the elections of January 2015. Campaigning against the eurozone program of austerity, Syriza won 36 percent of the vote in that election, as opposed to the 28 percent achieved by its nearest rival, New Democracy...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (2): 30–52.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Europe. Mediterranean Quarterly 28:2  DOI 10.1215/10474552-4164259 Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. Mavrikos-­Adamou: Immigration Law  31 encing the ill effects of austerity policies, including impoverishment and a decline in standards of living...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 June 2015
... on by the global financial crisis. Since 2010, Greece has been forced into stringent austerity measures in order to receive periodic bailouts from international lenders and to allow the heavily indebted Greek government to continue to operate. As a result, Greece’s unemployment rate hit worryingly high...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (1): 95–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the long term. Repeated bailouts will come only at the price of more austerity packages. Greece, in particular, is in its sixth successive year of recession and has seen a 25 percent drop in output since 2007. The long-­term prospect for the Southern European econo- mies is that if they stay within...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2018) 29 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Danopoulos. Yanis Varoufakis — an articulate, Western-­educated economist and a self-­professed game theory fan — was appointed minister of finance in the first anti-­austerity, left-­ wing SYRIZA-­led government that came to power in Greece in January 2015, following two emergency bailout agreements...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
... European partners. Consequently, the French proclivity to enhance its gold holdings would become a source of anxiety for the Kennedy administration.16 Growth versus Austerity in Southern Europe After an uninterrupted process of growth since the early 1950s that brought Italy to the top league...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (3): 1–4.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to bring about change — any change — to a Greece that has been under severe austerity for more than five years now, the new government under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, along with Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, has been on a public relations offensive to try to build pressure on Greece’s...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2016) 27 (4): 149–152.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in May 2010 provided an emergency loan to the country in exchange for deep austerity measures that included sharp tax increases, deep salary and pension cuts, and reductions in government spend- ing. This drew enormous attention by the news media and the scholarly community. A plethora...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (3): 74–98.
Published: 01 September 2014
... for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) puts the figure at a 0.4 percent contraction. Projections similar to the OECD’s were reported recently by George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. Ever since Soros publically condemned the troika’s austerity policies for accelerating the decline...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (3): 102–128.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... Other austerity policies that are required include privatization, elimination of protectionist policies, elimination of subsidies on domestically produced goods, increased interest rates, and restrained wages. These policies encourage competitive- ness and efficiency among producers, lure foreign...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (4): 38–54.
Published: 01 December 2010
... for falsifying data on public finances, causing further jitters in an already anxious market. Greece reacted by announcing a second round of austerity measures, the first having been announced in December, promising to bring down the deficit from 12.5 (later revised to 13.6 percent) to 8.7 percent...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (2): 53–79.
Published: 01 June 2017
... (Washington, DC: IFES, 2017), www.electionguide.org/countries/id/85. a Two elections held in the same year. Monetary Fund (IMF) – monitored austerity program (also known as the Mem- orandum) in 2009. In less than six years the turnout rate dropped by more than 14 percentage points. The 2015 voter...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (2): 1–3.
Published: 01 June 2017
... to 1991, when the first wave of immigrants came to Greece following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the breakup of Yugosla- via along Greece’s northern border. Mavrikos-­Adamou demonstrates how a dangerous cocktail of economic austerity mixed with over 1 million illegal immigrants...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (4): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2015
... at stake. This situation has led to discord across the EU, with the more austerity-­ oriented north seeking to instill painful discipline on Europe’s south. The relationship between Greece and Germany has become especially strained, with political theatrics to boot. Austerity and lack of economic...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 43–67.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of good governance and the rule of law were, and still are, a recipe for social tumult on the Arab street. In general, Arab regimes aided by international institutions, corporations, and Western governments have adopted forceful austerity and market liberal- ization measures. However...