1. Stathis Kalyvas, Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 153, 156.
2. Kevin Featherstone and Dimitris Papadimitriou, Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 189.
3. Giannis Voulgaris, Η μοιραία πενταετία. Η πολιτική της αδράνειας, 2004–2009 [The Fateful Five Years: The Politics of Inaction, 2004–2009] (Athens: Polis, 2011), 311 (10 January 2009); Kostas Kostis, History’s Spoiled Children: The Formation of the Modern Greek State, trans. Jacob Moe (London: Hurst, 2018; Greek original published in 2013), 388–9.
4. George Papaconstantinou, Game Over: The Inside Story of the Greek Crisis (English edition privately published, 2016), 30–40 (37 quoted).
5. Loukas Tsoukalis, In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project be Saved? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 89.
6. Kalyvas, Modern Greece, 163.
7. For the period 1974–2000, see David Close, Greece since 1945: Politics, Economy and Society (London: Longman, 2002), 168–70; for 1999–2015, Miranda Xafa, ‘Back from the brink: How to end Greece’s seemingly interminable crisis’, in Spyros Economides (ed.), Greece: Modernisation and Europe 20 Years On (London: London School of Economics, Hellenic Observatory, 2017), 46–53.
8. Kostis, History’s Spoiled Children, 416; Dimitris Tziovas (ed.), Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity (London: I. B. Tauris, 2017), 26.
9. Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment (London: Bodley Head, 2017), 237 (quoted); Johanna Hanink, The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017), 200, 223, citing headlines in the German press from 2010.
10. Varoufakis, Adults, 469.
11. Varoufakis, Adults, 48; Hanink, Classical Debt, 219.
12. Varoufakis, Adults, 474.
13. Karen van Dyck (ed.), Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (London: Penguin, 2016), xviii.
14. Tziovas (ed.), Greece in Crisis, 4.
15. George Pagoulatos, ‘From project modernisation to forced adjustment: two decades of incomplete reforms (1996–2016)’, in Spyros Economides (ed.), Greece: Modernisation and Europe 20 Years On (London: London School of Economics, Hellenic Observatory, 2017), 37–45 (44 quoted).
16. Tziovas (ed.), Greece in Crisis, 30; see also Hanink, Classical Debt, 255–7.
17. Denis Vovchenko, Containing Balkan Nationalism: Imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians, 1856–1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 329.
18. Kostis, History’s Spoiled Children, 421.