Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People (STAMP) at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Fault-lines. Since 2008, he has been developing a historical analysis of the global financial crisis and economic downturn using the geological metaphor of ‘global fault-lines’.

• Chapter 1. The study of global politics & economics today.- Chapter 2. Global power-shift, the decline of the West and new authoritarianism.- Chapter 3. Germany’s ordoliberal austerity and the European disunion.- Chapter 4. The road to Brexit.- Chapter 5. Imperial symphysis: Greece and German ordoliberalism.- Chapter 6. The disintegrative and authoritarian logics of Euro-Atlanticism.- Postscript – Political Perspectives.

Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People (STAMP) at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Fault-lines. Since 2008, he has been developing a historical analysis of the global financial crisis and economic downturn using the geological metaphor of ‘global fault-lines’.

• Chapter 1. The study of global politics & economics today.- Chapter 2. Global power-shift, the decline of the West and new authoritarianism.- Chapter 3. Germany’s ordoliberal austerity and the European disunion.- Chapter 4. The road to Brexit.- Chapter 5. Imperial symphysis: Greece and German ordoliberalism.- Chapter 6. The disintegrative and authoritarian logics of Euro-Atlanticism.- Postscript – Political Perspectives.

Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People (STAMP) at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Fault-lines. Since 2008, he has been developing a historical analysis of the global financial crisis and economic downturn using the geological metaphor of ‘global fault-lines’.

• Chapter 1. The study of global politics & economics today.- Chapter 2. Global power-shift, the decline of the West and new authoritarianism.- Chapter 3. Germany’s ordoliberal austerity and the European disunion.- Chapter 4. The road to Brexit.- Chapter 5. Imperial symphysis: Greece and German ordoliberalism.- Chapter 6. The disintegrative and authoritarian logics of Euro-Atlanticism.- Postscript – Political Perspectives.