Vassilis K Fouskas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vassilis K Fouskas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vassilis K |
| FAMILY NAME | Fouskas |
| SIGNATURE | FOUSKAS V K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3128-6411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing neoliberalism
Financialisation, capitalism and imperialism
Ukraine, Europe, and the re-routing of Globalization
The dominant Western narrative—now virtually obligatory within its media and foreign policy establishments—asserts that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was unprovoked, deriving from domestic political imperatives and messianic imperial nostalgia. Yet, while these factors must be included within a comprehensive causal argument, a deeper and more satisfactory explanation for the invasion situates the predicament of the Russ…
Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies
Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has unleashed the largest and most lethal war on the European continent since 1945. Vladimir Putin and the Russian government bear most of the responsibility for the invasion and its terrible humanitarian consequences. However, explanations for the war deriving from Russian domestic political dynamics or Vladimir Putin’s imperial nostalgia do not provide a comprehensive understanding of the crisis that led to …
Greece: The Return of the Right
New 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 th…
When the world was not Eurocentric
About political reactionaries (but why the jargon?)
that the study of revolutions is [nor ought to be] value-free'.Instead, they argue that all research should be crafted to 'support humanity in the pursuit of emancipation'.Therefore, scholars of revolution should commit themselves to an 'emancipatory praxis', engaging in research and studies that seek 'to support liberation and justice'.On Revolutions is a complex book.It is not a compendium of all that is already known on revolutions, nor is an …
Constantine Karamanlis and the Cyprus Crisis of July-August 1974: A Re-assessment
Certain Western powers have attempted to create a rift between President Makarios and our government by asking us to condemn his policies. In this fashion, they have shown that they do not understa
Prelude to America’s Downfall: The Stagflation of the 1970s
Since the end of the Bretton Woods system and the stagflation of the 1970s, the transatlantic core, under the leadership of the United States of America, has been trying to expand its model of free market capitalism embracing every part of the globe, while addressing its domestic overaccumulation crisis. This article follows a historical methodological perspective and draws from the concept of Uneven and Combined Development (UCD), which helps us…
Socialism across the Iron Curtain. Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945
Reflections on Shared Parenting
Special Issue: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and Covid-19
In this discussion with Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay, Biljana Vankovska explores the complexities of the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean centred around the issue of refugees/migrants/asylum seekers. Fouskas argues that the Turkish government has weaponized the refugees in a hybrid warfare against a hypocritical Europe and NATO, with Russia being the real winner in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. Further, he believes that Europ…
Lenin’s ‘Eastern Policy’ and Communism in Turkey and Greece, 1918-1923
Examining Lenin’s strategy towards colonial and semi-colonial periphery is crucial in understanding the way in which early Soviet policy was shaped and implemented towards the crucial conflict in Anatolia between Greece—Britain’s proxy—and Turkish national resistance movement based in Ankara. We show that, Soviet state interests kept a firm hand on—albeit in different ways—the development of communism both in Greece and Turkey and, for most of th…
The mysteries of neoliberalism
The Greek Conundrum
Syriza lost the July 2019 election in Greece to the right‐wing New Democracy Party, though it was not a crushing defeat. This article explains that although Syriza is chiefly responsible for the return of New Democracy to power, its remarkable electoral performance is because its party elites, being in power for over four years, succeeded in appropriating the state machine, establishing caucuses of power, influence and clientelism. Thus, the demi…
Still hoping for socialism in one country
Neo-liberalism and Ordoliberalism - One or Two Critiques? An Introduction
This special issue addresses principally, but not exclusively, two themes: first, the differences and similarities between two stylised and separable, but not separate, class policies - that of Anglo-American neo-liberalism and German-Austrian ordoliberalism; and second, whether or not European Union Treaties and actual policies have been driven by German-Austrian ordoliberal principles. By way of examining these two themes, the contributions als…
Greece in the 21st Century: The Politics and Economics of a Crisis
Varoufakis contra omnes
Letter from Athens
Athens has No Voice: On the closure of Greece’s Public Broadcasting Corporation (ERT)
Greece's Public Broadcasting Corporation, ERT, was closed down with a Ministerial decree. The article explains why this was wrong and why the road taken by Greek authorities to streamline the Greek debt crisis is the wrong one
Andreas Papandreou. The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
The Political QuarterlyVolume 84, Issue 2 p. 295-297 Papandreou before austerity Andreas Papandreou. The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick Vassilis Fouskas, Vassilis FouskasSearch for more papers by this author Vassilis Fouskas, Vassilis FouskasSearch for more papers by this author First published: 08 July 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.12001_4.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to…
Whatever Happened to Greece
The sovereign debt crisis in Greece and other periphery countries is a yardstick for the viability of the European project: if Greece defaults and exits the Euro‐zone, then the entire European architecture will be questioned. This article examines the origins of the Greek debt crisis and argues that the key sources of the debt are the economic and political factions that have dominated Greek politics since the fall of the Colonels in summer 1974 …
The Greek Workshop of Debt and the Failure of the European Project
Much has been written on Greece's sovereign debt crisis and the disintegrative tendencies of the EU in conjunction with the global financial crisis that hit the West since summer 2007. This paper reviews the most important contributions to the debate and advances an original analysis as to what the sources of the Greek debt crisis are and what steps should be taken in order to get out of it. The argument put forth is that responsibility for the c…
Dealing with Sovereign Debt Crises Today: Lessons from Eastern Europe and the Balkans
The public debt becomes one of the most powerful levers of primitive accumulation. As with the stroke of an enchanter's wand, it endows unproductive money with the power of creation and thus turns
The Muffled Voice of the New Pasok: Reflections on Neo-Revisionist Socialism in Greece
This article examines the political significance of leadership changes in PASOK and attempts to conceive them in the light of recent ideological revisions advanced by the new ruling group of the party, headed by the president of PASOK and prime minister, Kostas Simitis. The thesis suggested is that the'post-Papandreou era’, marked by the hegemony of neo-revisionist socialist ideas, does not represent a clear-cut victory of the ‘modernizers’ over …
Whatever Happened to Greece
The sovereign debt crisis in Greece and other periphery countries is a yardstick for the viability of the European project: if Greece defaults and exits the Euro‐zone, then the entire European architecture will be questioned. This article examines the origins of the Greek debt crisis and argues that the key sources of the debt are the economic and political factions that have dominated Greek politics since the fall of the Colonels in summer 1974 …
Uncomfortable Questions: Cyprus, October 1973–August 1974
Scholarly research to date has analysed the Cyprus issue from the perspective of Greek–Turkish relations, suggesting that the United States was attempting to strike a balance between them in order to safeguard the cohesion of NATO's southern flank during the cold war. This article, without undermining the validity of previous historical findings on the issue, nevertheless constitutes an attempt to move towards a differing research agenda: it loca…
Greece: The Return of the Right
New 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 th…
The Greek Conundrum
Syriza lost the July 2019 election in Greece to the right‐wing New Democracy Party, though it was not a crushing defeat. This article explains that although Syriza is chiefly responsible for the return of New Democracy to power, its remarkable electoral performance is because its party elites, being in power for over four years, succeeded in appropriating the state machine, establishing caucuses of power, influence and clientelism. Thus, the demi…
Varoufakis contra omnes
Dealing with Sovereign Debt Crises Today: Lessons from Eastern Europe and the Balkans
The public debt becomes one of the most powerful levers of primitive accumulation. As with the stroke of an enchanter's wand, it endows unproductive money with the power of creation and thus turns
The Italian left and the enlargement of the European union
The Muffled Voice of the New Pasok: Reflections on Neo-Revisionist Socialism in Greece
This article examines the political significance of leadership changes in PASOK and attempts to conceive them in the light of recent ideological revisions advanced by the new ruling group of the party, headed by the president of PASOK and prime minister, Kostas Simitis. The thesis suggested is that the'post-Papandreou era’, marked by the hegemony of neo-revisionist socialist ideas, does not represent a clear-cut victory of the ‘modernizers’ over …
Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East
Debates
The New American Imperialism: Bush’s War on Terror and Blood for Oil
With the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States’ long war on communism was replaced by a perpetual war on terror. The authors posit that this neo-imperialistic phase is but the latest development in a line of thought and action established after World War II. But, they say, 2005 is not 1945. Today, they argue, the United States uses its power to deplete the resources of the developing world, and to compel the rest of the world…
Uncomfortable Questions: Cyprus, October 1973–August 1974
Scholarly research to date has analysed the Cyprus issue from the perspective of Greek–Turkish relations, suggesting that the United States was attempting to strike a balance between them in order to safeguard the cohesion of NATO's southern flank during the cold war. This article, without undermining the validity of previous historical findings on the issue, nevertheless constitutes an attempt to move towards a differing research agenda: it loca…
Why Zones of Conflict is so annoying to some: A response to Bruce Kuniholm and others
The culture of the Europeans: An interview with Donald Sassoon
In May 1994 a couple of PhD students at Queen Mary–History working under his supervision, as well as other students of the University of London, walked into Donald Sassoon's office in Mile End. We said to him that though there was a war in the Balkans there was no serious academic journal dealing specifically with the region, as well as southern Europe, in a broader European and global context. We also told him our intentions: the setting up of a…
Germany and the Passage from War to Peace in Eurasia
The article examines the geo-political and socio-economic positioning of Germany in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Greater Middle East vis-à-vis the contingency of another US-led war against Iran. The central argument is that an attack on Iran would further undermine the cohesion of the EU as a potential political actor in the international arena, while setting on a collision course Europe and Russia. However, the article shows that there ar…
The poet of Turkish communism
The ‘isolation’ of Turkish Cypriots and its relevance to a constitutional convention
The Imperial Reification of the Qur‘an
The Qur‘an, the holy text of Islam, is not simply a text liable to interpretation. It is a social relation mediated by a number of agencies that reify its messages in a number of ways. Over the millennia, the West managed to assert its intellectual hegemony over the forms and the types of the reification of the Qur‘an. The West is today the key mediating agency that has transformed the message of the Qur‘an, removing its original cultural tenets …
Dealing with Sovereign Debt Crises Today: Lessons from Eastern Europe and the Balkans
The public debt becomes one of the most powerful levers of primitive accumulation. As with the stroke of an enchanter's wand, it endows unproductive money with the power of creation and thus turns
The Greek Workshop of Debt and the Failure of the European Project
Much has been written on Greece's sovereign debt crisis and the disintegrative tendencies of the EU in conjunction with the global financial crisis that hit the West since summer 2007. This paper reviews the most important contributions to the debate and advances an original analysis as to what the sources of the Greek debt crisis are and what steps should be taken in order to get out of it. The argument put forth is that responsibility for the c…
Athens has No Voice: On the closure of Greece’s Public Broadcasting Corporation (ERT)
Greece's Public Broadcasting Corporation, ERT, was closed down with a Ministerial decree. The article explains why this was wrong and why the road taken by Greek authorities to streamline the Greek debt crisis is the wrong one
Andreas Papandreou. The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
The Political QuarterlyVolume 84, Issue 2 p. 295-297 Papandreou before austerity Andreas Papandreou. The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick Vassilis Fouskas, Vassilis FouskasSearch for more papers by this author Vassilis Fouskas, Vassilis FouskasSearch for more papers by this author First published: 08 July 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.12001_4.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to…
Whatever Happened to Greece
The sovereign debt crisis in Greece and other periphery countries is a yardstick for the viability of the European project: if Greece defaults and exits the Euro‐zone, then the entire European architecture will be questioned. This article examines the origins of the Greek debt crisis and argues that the key sources of the debt are the economic and political factions that have dominated Greek politics since the fall of the Colonels in summer 1974 …
Letter from Athens
Varoufakis contra omnes
Greece in the 21st Century: The Politics and Economics of a Crisis
The mysteries of neoliberalism
The Greek Conundrum
Syriza lost the July 2019 election in Greece to the right‐wing New Democracy Party, though it was not a crushing defeat. This article explains that although Syriza is chiefly responsible for the return of New Democracy to power, its remarkable electoral performance is because its party elites, being in power for over four years, succeeded in appropriating the state machine, establishing caucuses of power, influence and clientelism. Thus, the demi…
Still hoping for socialism in one country
Neo-liberalism and Ordoliberalism - One or Two Critiques? An Introduction
This special issue addresses principally, but not exclusively, two themes: first, the differences and similarities between two stylised and separable, but not separate, class policies - that of Anglo-American neo-liberalism and German-Austrian ordoliberalism; and second, whether or not European Union Treaties and actual policies have been driven by German-Austrian ordoliberal principles. By way of examining these two themes, the contributions als…
Special Issue: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and Covid-19
In this discussion with Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay, Biljana Vankovska explores the complexities of the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean centred around the issue of refugees/migrants/asylum seekers. Fouskas argues that the Turkish government has weaponized the refugees in a hybrid warfare against a hypocritical Europe and NATO, with Russia being the real winner in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. Further, he believes that Europ…
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