The re-emergence of crisis theory as Europe faces new calamity: Don Pittis
To Canadian political economist Daniel Drache, Europe feels like it could be on the verge of a crisis. Yesterday’s violent killings at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices in Paris did nothing to change that feeling.
“I think there’s lots of turmoil ahead,” said Drache, who I called to talk about something called crisis theory. “And when you move to highly ideologized mentalities, then all sorts of shit can happen.”
Drache is former director of Canada’s Robarts Centre and author, most recently, of Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen.
When I had arranged the interview the day before, the attack in Paris hadn’t yet happened. Our subject was going to be the rise of a radical left party in Greece, Syriza, that the research group Oxford Economics says is heading for a “decisive victory” in the country’s snap election now only 17 days away.
As I wrote last month, the Greek election was almost an accident after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras played chicken with the Greek parliament and lost. Now the establishment coalition, carefully patched together by way of financial support from the European Union, has fallen apart.
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