BOOK REVIEW: And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability

Abstract

Yanis Varoufakis is a politician and economist who drew the attention of the world by taking a serious stand against the austerity policies and credit agreements imposed on Greece by the Eurogroup leaders while he was running the Ministry of Finance in 2015. Indeed, this book is a multifaceted work in which Varoufakis discusses the failures of the EU integration process today with theoretical and practical reasons as a scientist, and tells what he witnessed about the incompatibilities of Greece and the EU bureaucracy after the 2008 Crisis through his politician identity.

Keywords

Book Review, Yanis Varoufakis, Europe, Austerity Policies, Global Stability

Citation

Sönmez, Pelin, Book Review: “Yanis Varoufakis, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability, London, Vintage Penguin Random House, 2017”, International Relations, Volume 15, Issue 57, 2018, pp. 113-116, DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.518046

Affiliations

• Pelin SÖNMEZ, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Kocaeli University