1. The European citizenship in general typology[1] The attribute of the citizen, citizenship, the existence of which quietly emerged in western-European societies at a transitional stage of the despotic state, only just in the 19th century, and eventually with time became generalised with the prevailing of the state-nation, is today at the epicentre of […]
Read moreProf. George Contogeorgis “Democracy as Freedom “1 1. The definition of the modern political system begins from an incontestable preliminary hypothesis: it is of a democratic nature. However, this identification of the modern political system with democracy does not correspond to its history. At its beginning the modern system was opposed to democracy, one referring […]
Read moreCultural Europe and Geopolitics[1] Georges CONTOGEORGIS Abstract: The question on the meeting of the cultural with the geopolitical approach to Europe is raised for the first time after World War II, as a result of the internal ethnocentric crystallization of Europe and, at the same time, of the danger that the European Powers may turn […]
Read morePrologue This essay is only a partial reflection of the current state of European integration studies in Greece. It is thus neither extensive, nor perhaps representative of the many different scholarly efforts by Greek political scientists to capture the reality of the ‘polity’ that is currently emerging in Europe. Accordingly, what follows sketches a general […]
Read moreGeorge Contogeorgis Religion and politics in the nation-state and the European Union The gradual development of the European Union into a political system appears to reposition the issue of the relationship between religion and politics, and, at the same time, to raise new questions concerning the structure of the religious and the political function pertaining […]
Read moreGeorge D. Contogeorgis Politics as Phenomenon The debate over the place of politics as a phenomenon is currently focusing on the pursuit of its particular “objects,” and consequently on a corresponding construction of politics in terms of power or strength in its social environment. The “object” of political science, political power, appears as a given […]
Read moreG. Contogeorgis, Professor of Political Science at Panteion University of Athens Political Culture in Greece Introductory Foreword The significance of the study of Greek political culture does not consist in the direct statistical result which issues from the responses to the Asia-Europe Survey, but in the background of values that prescribe the approaches of Greek […]
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