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Vassilis K. Fouskas is a senior research fellow in European and international studies at Kingston University, United Kingdom, and founding editor of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans.

Conventional wisdom and ideologies hold that responsibility for the partition of the Republic of Cyprus in the wake of Turkey's multiple advances on the island in summer 1974 rests on domestic ethnic and religious tensions between the Turks and the Greeks. This book, drawing on a wealth of archival material, shows that this is not the case at all. As the detailed report of the United Nations mediator, Galo Plaza, had shown in 1965, the Turks and the Greekslivingon the island could easily haveco-existed if left alone to determine their future. This did not happen. The partition of the island had been inscribed in NATO's policy since the 1950s, rewarding the strongest component of NATO's southern flank, Turkey, at the expense of Greece, the weaker component. The volume details the role of CIA agents in Greece and the machinations of the Greek junta of Dimitrios Ioannides to overthrow the charismatic leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, who had been fighting for an independent and non-aligned Cyprus. It also explains how the partition of Cyprus in 1974 has opened up prospects for the partition of the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, with Greece's eastern Aegean islands becoming NATOlands' in the service of the war against Russia. The volume is an essential reading for researchers and studentsof the history and politics of Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and south-eastern Europe.

"Fouskas and Gökay's book about the Euro Crisis and German ambition is compelling. The context is the restructuring of the Euro-Atlantic assemblage by the global push of China. A must read."--Werner Bonefeld, University of York, UK "This is an original, theoretically sophisticated, historically sensitive, and empirically grounded analysis." -Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster, UK "Fouskas and Gökay have produced an extraordinarily impressive, carefully researched analysis of the contemporary global crisis." -Alan W. Cafruny, Hamilton College, USA "This highly informative and stimulating book explores the larger picture in which the worrying symptoms of our time are unfolding at high speed. It makes an important and salutary contribution to the indispensable rethinking of ailing socialist politics." -Gilbert Achcar, SOAS University of London, UK This book sets out a concrete analytical and empirical framework to understand the Euro-zone crisis and the deep disintegrative tendencies of Euro-Atlantic neo-imperialism. It explores how the authoritarianism and austerity led from above in the transatlantic world cultivate right-wing populism and racist hysteria from below, especially in relation to the global power-shift to China and other emerging economies. The authors argue that ordoliberal/neo-liberal austerity cannot reverse the decline of western economies; if anything, it precipitates their downfall and the re-launching of globalization under Asian primacy. The book will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers across the fields of International Political Economy, European Politics and Critical Social and Political Theory. Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People (STAMP) at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Fault-lines. Since 2008, he has been developing a historical analysis of the global financial crisis and economic downturn using the geological metaphor of 'global fault-lines'.--

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction and Acknowledgments: Whatâ#x80;#x99;s in the Greek Cauldron?; I; II; III; Notes; References; 1. Eurozone Authoritarianism and the Neoliberal Project in Greece and Southern Europe; Class Compromise and Social Cohesion; The â#x80;#x98;Global Planâ#x80;#x99; and its Limits; Architects of the Minotaurâ#x80;#x99;s Labyrinth; The Many-Headed Hydra of Money Capital; Predatory Raiding and War; The Eurozone as a Playground for Hot Money; Redefining the Crash; The French Drift to Authoritarianism.

"For most of the first part of the 21st century Greece has been seen as a critical battlefield for the survival of the powerful and the adjustment or extinction of the weak, as if all the historical contradictions of the global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis were concentrated in that tiny part of the world, with a population of just 11 million people and a GDP of less than 2% of that of the European Union as a whole. While the country has been overpowered by the disciplinarian and deeply authoritarian policy mix of ordoliberal/neoliberal rules, as this book attempts to show, there is hope. Defeat does not end the crisis, and crisis means constant opportunity. In this state of affairs, all types of agencies try to take advantage of the conditions and opportunities in order to advance towards positions of power and provide the best of solutions for the class interests they represent. Thus, harsh conflict is inevitable and if history provides a yardstick, it is that in periods of conflict and crisis, the winner, usually, is the one who manages to strike the right political and social alliances at the right time.The editors have assembled in this volume a number of interdisciplinary chapters and arguments which, despite their differences, share the strategic aim of a critique of both neoliberalism/ordoliberalism and new authoritarianism. Chapters examine the eurozone crisis from a variety of angles with reference to Greece, and Greek politics and society. With this collection of heterodox and scholarly essays, the authors and editors aim to offer a progressive understanding of current historical circumstances.Constantine Dimoulas is an Assistant Professor in social administration and evaluation of social programmes at Panteion University, Greece.Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of international politics and economics at the University of East London, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Taylor & Francis)."--Provided by publisher.

Money, oil, and power -- Controlling governments -- The new American way of war -- Neo-imperialist ideology -- The battle for Caspian oil -- The U.S./NATO war on Yugoslavia -- The Greater Middle East initiative -- Iraq's Shiites move to fill a power vacuum -- Ukraine : regime change, U.S. style -- Beasts in Samaritan clothing -- Conclusion: An overview of the new American imperialism

AbstractNew Democracy (ND), the centre‐right party founded by Constantine Karamanlis in summer 1974 and currently led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, scion of a powerful political family, won the twin electoral contest of May/June 2023 with a landslide. The victory was comprehensive both in terms of the votes received—over 40 per cent of those who cast their vote (abstention was over 45 per cent)—and because of the near collapse of Syriza (17.83 per cent) and the weak recovery of the other centre‐left party, PASOK (11.46 per cent). Moreover, far right and conservative parties, three in total, entered parliament, amassing some 12 per cent of the vote. We argue that two interlinked phenomena account for these developments. The first was the eclipse of conditions that created the Syriza phenomenon in Greece (the 2010–15 debt crisis); the second was the lack of a credible programmatic alternative that spoke to the middle classes on behalf of both centre‐left parties.

Vassilis K. Fouskas is professor of international relations at the University of Piraeus and the editor of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. Bülent Gökay is professor of international relations at Keele University and the editor of Eurasian Studies Network.