Monthly Archives: January 2016

By Luke Field, PhD researcher at UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations. (with apologies to Joe Strummer) The German word schuld has multiple meanings and translations, including ‘debt’, ‘guilt’, and ‘blame’. Whether this is a coincidence or a causal factor is not a matter for this blog, but it is certainly interesting, given thatContinue reading “‘Schuld I Stay or Schuld I Go?’ Germany, Greece, and the Politics of Debt and Blame”

Ideology as Insult By Daniel Listwa. MA in Philosophy and Public Affairs at University College Dublin. As the Euro Crisis heated up this past summer, I observed as a level of consensus arose among American, and other English-speaking, audiences with regard to what was happening in the Eurozone: the Germans, driven by moral ideology, set outContinue reading “Ideology, Morality and Rationality: The Uncomfortable Bedfellows of European Integration”