Europe's Transformations Essays in Honour of Loukas Tsoukalis

by Wallace, Helen; Koutsiaras, Nikos; Pagoulatos, George

• ISBN13: 9780192895820
• ISBN10: 0192895826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-01-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Helen Wallace, Honorary Professor, University of Sussex,Nikos Koutsiaras, Associate Professor of Political Economy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,George Pagoulatos, Professor of European Politics & Economy, Athens University of Economics & Business

Professor Dame Helen Wallace is an Academic Specialist in the Politics of European integration with recent positions at the London School of Economics and Politics, the European University Institute, and the University of Sussex.

Nikos Koutsiaras is Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Political Science and Public Administration). He also is a senior research fellow at ELIAMEP. His research interests are in political economy of growth and redistribution, macroeconomic
policy, employment and labour market policy, social policy, European integration, and EMU.


George Pagoulatos is Professor of European Politics & Economy at the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is Director General of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). A regular columnist in the
Sunday edition of the Greek newspaper Kathimerini since 2007, he served as Senior Advisor and Director of Strategy at the PM Office under Greece's two non-political prime ministers (2011-12). He holds a Law degree from the University of Athens, M.Sc. and D.Phil. in Politics from the University of
Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chronology of Loukas Tsoukalis' works
List of contributors
1. Setting the scene, Helen Wallace
2. Tsoukalis and the political economy of European integration, Nikos Koutsiaras
Democracy and welfare
3. Growth and competitiveness: an elusive European quest?, Andr? Sapir
4. Education and the European social contract, Xavier Prats Monn?
5. Europe's (euro) crisis of legitimacy, Vivien Schmidt
6. The East-West divide revisited 30 years on, Jacques Rupnik
7. Liberal democracy and its discontent, Yves M?ny
Lopsided integration
8. The European Council as a transformative force, Wolfgang Wessels
9. Core-periphery relations and European integration, Brigid Laffan
10. Integrating through crises: Revisiting the Eurozone's reform conundrum, George Pagoulatos
11. Implications of Brexit for the UK and the EU - The knowns and the unknowns, Matthew Bevington and Anand Menon
What kind of power in what kind of global system?
12. The end of multilateralism?, Ngaire Woods
13. The return of global asymmetries, Jean Pisani-Ferry
14. The quest for European autonomy, Nathalie Tocci
15. The European Union as a global power?, Enrico Letta
16. The Partnership Between the United States and the European Union: The Key to Ensuring that the Western Model is Not Eclipsed by China, Anthony Gardner
17. Are we still allowed to dream?, Herman Van Rompuy