Abstract
Eleven articles discuss SYRIZA’s populist politics starting from its first election in 2015, making predictions about what will happen in Greece and Europe after it and discussing the problem of populism to liberal democracy. Greece isn’t Europe and Europe isn’t Greece. The Greeks have become victims of SYRIZA’s illusions and voted ‘No’ to the so-called Greferendum offering a symbolic victory to SYRIZA, which won’t change the inevitable acceptance of a new bailout. This so-called aGreekment won’t lead to the rise of the neo-Nazi party XA, but a left alternative to Europe is also impossible. Tsipras’ victory in the new elections will barely change Greek politics, as it is the first post-Memorandum election and the last in which Tsipras will not be held responsible for previous policies. Now part of that politics is in Tsipras’ hands and he faces the choice of which PASOK he wants to transform SYRIZA into. A year later, Greece is more isolated than ever before.
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Notes
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It was first published at Open Democracy on 25 January 2015.
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It was first published in The Guardian on 17 February 2015.
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It was first published at The Huffington Post on 16 March 2015.
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It was first published at The Huffington Post on 27 June 2015.
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It was first published at The Conversation on 6 June 2015.
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It was first published at The Conversation on 15 July 2015.
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See Alex McClintock, ‘Greek Bailout a “New Versailles Treaty”, Says Former Finance Minister Varoufakis’, ABC, 13 July 2015, available at: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/greek-bailout-deal-‘a-new-versailles-treaty’:-yanis-varoufakis/6616532 (McClintock 2015)
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See Cas Mudde, ‘The European Elite’s Politics of Fear’, Open Democracy, 18 March 2013b, available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/cas-mudde/european-elites-politics-of-fear. (Mudde 2013b)
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It was first published at Open Democracy on 23 July 2015.
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See Harry Lambert, ‘Yanis Varoufakis Full Manuscript: Our Battle To Save Greece’, New Statesman, 13 July 2015, available at: http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2015/07/yanis-varoufakis-full-transcript-our-battle-save-greece (Lambert 2015)
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See Cas Mudde, ‘It’s Time to End the Eurosceptic Illusions’, Open Democracy, 13 July 2015, available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/cas-mudde/it%E2%80%99s-time-to-end-eurosceptic-illusions. (Mudde 2015)
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It was first published at The Huffington Post on 24 August 2015.
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It was first published at The Huffington Post on 20 September 2015.
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It was first published at eKathimerini on 8 October 2015.
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It was first published at The Huffington Post on 25 January 2016.
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See Vassilis Petsinis, ‘Syriza One Year On: What Happened To the Radical Left in Greece?’, Open Democracy, 25 January 2016, available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/vassilis-petsinis/syriza-one-year-on-what-happened-to-radical-left-dream-in-greec (Petsinis 2016)
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Mudde, C. (2017). SYRIZA’s Populist Illusions. In: SYRIZA. Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47479-3_2
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