The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost?

In: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Ser

Abstract

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Images -- Chapter 1 The Setting: The Greco-German Affair on the Euro Stage -- Abstract -- 1.1 The Foundation of European Demoicracy -- 1.2 The Greco-German Affair and the Battlefield of Stories -- 1.3 Mutual Recognition and Its Denial -- 1.4 Rebuilding Trust -- Chapter 2 The Players: Greeks vs Germans -- Abstract -- 2.1 Of Greek Squanderers and German Misers -- The Good Life -- Conflicted Cheapskates -- Inequalities and Suffering -- The Age of the Lobster Pasta -- Blame Games -- Greece, Relentless Mirror -- 2.2 Swindlers vs. Hearts of Steel: Moralities of Rule of Law, Public Spirit, and Solidarity -- Greek Diseases -- Only Greeks? -- A Liar Will not Be Believed -- The Two Greeces -- Playing by the Rules -- Solidarity -- 2.3 Greece Mirror of German Demons -- Bankruptcy Greeks -- Traumas Resonating -- 2.4 Your History, My History -- Heir of Antiquity vs Err of Antiquity, and the War of Clichés -- German Guilt, German Debt, German Responsibility -- Lost in Translation -- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall -- Greek Historical Memory Revised -- 2.5 Power and Resistance -- German Despots and Their Greek Collaborators -- The Power of the Weak -- The Reluctant Hegemon -- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- Chapter 3 The Name of the Game: Shaping Europe Through Self and Other -- Abstract -- 3.1 A Union of Prosperity? -- From Promise to Threat -- Bottomless Pit -- United in Fear? -- Cui Bono? -- 3.2 Europe Re-Nationalised? -- Germanisation, or Nationalisation? -- Community of Fate and Responsibility -- Mortal Europe, More Europe, and a Different Europe -- European Domestic Politics -- 3.3 Embodiment of Progress, Competent Governance and Modernisation? -- Saviours Without a Plan -- Markets as the Lords of Politics -- Europe as Moderniser