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"The European Union in the 21st Century takes a fresh look at a complex and ever-changing organization by examining its pursuit of two very different objectives: power (security and political weight) and plenty (economic growth and social welfare). Nikolaos Zahariadis aims to help students understand these two objectives and how the tension between them affects different issue areas, illuminating how each objective represents a different perspective on what the EU is and what it does. The book also introduces students to the systematic thinking that political scientists employ to see the connections between policies, institutions, and actors. By unpacking the various perspectives, students will gain greater insight into how policymakers think and why EU leaders make the kinds of decisions they do"--

"Multiple Streams in Foreign Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.

What factors explain the brinkmanship and threats of Greece's distributive tactics over the third bailout package in 2015? Examining negotiations between Greece and its creditors duringsyriza's (Coalition of the Radical Left) tenure in power, I argue that the Greek government's strong ideological fervor turned the bailout negotiations into an ideologically based dispute, which involved "sacred" value biases and uncompromising posturing. Unable to form cooperative transnational coalitions, Athens increasingly turned to distributive bargaining tactics that antagonized creditors and escalated the conflict. The article highlights how values act as barriers in bailouts and has implications for the study of intergovernmental negotiations in the European Union.