Exadaktylos, Th., Zahariadis, N., (2012), “Policy Implementation and Political Trust: Greece in the Age of Austerity”, Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe, GreeSE Paper No. 65. Why did the Greek Socialist government consistently fail to faithfully implement the bailout reforms between 2010 and 2011 despite strong international and European pressures? Building on the top-down implementation framework by Mazmanian and Sabatier, we argue political trust underpins the government’s implementation …Read More

Zotti, Antonio, (2013), “The crisis of the periphery. Greece and EU foreign policy”, Istituto Per Gli Studi Di Politica Internazionale. Since the outbreak of the EU debt crisis, severe budget constraints and urgent domestic concerns have been seriously affecting Greece’s foreign policy. The first part of the paper tries to shed light on how structural factors underlying both Greek policy-making and its regional context produce stabilizing effects on the country’s …Read More

 Erixon, Fredrik, (2012), “The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis”, The European Centre for International Political Economy Policy Brief, Ν. 06/2012. The Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders’ inability to agree on robust and credible crisis responses. Individual governments are experiencing sovereign deficit and debt crises, but not the Eurozone at large. Its fiscal position is manageable. The Eurozone is rather going through …Read More