Loukas Tsoukalis Explained

Loukas Tsoukalis is a Greek political economist and European public intellectual with a long experience in EU affairs. He is a Professor (Professeur affilié) at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, Emeritus Professor at the University of Athens, and President of the Board of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).

Career

In 1976, he was elected to the first European studies fellowship at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and in 1984 he became university lecturer in international relations and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford.

He taught at the College of Europe for many years and was the director of the economics department from 1983 to 1999.^[1]

He was research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London where he co-directed a project, together with Professor Susan Strange, on the reform of the international monetary system. He was also the editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies, the leading journal in European integration between 1980 and 1984.^[2]

In 1990, he returned home as Jean Monnet Professor of European integration at the University of Athens where he taught until 2017 when he became Emeritus Professor.^[3]

Between 1998-2001 he was the first holder of the Eleftherios Venizelos Chair at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).^[4]

He has also held several Visiting Professorships notably, as visiting professor at SAIS, The Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C. (1983-4), Pierre Werner professorial fellow at the Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence (2003-4), visiting professor at King's College, London^[5] (2013-5), and Pierre Keller visiting professor.^[6] at the Kennedy School, Harvard University (2016).^[7]

Since 2019, he has been teaching at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po.^[8]

His non-academic activities include two short stints as special envoy in Washington D.C. of the Greek minister of National Economy (1983) and special adviser with ambassadorial rank to the Greek prime minister (1988). He was later adviser to the president of the European Commission (2005–11) and the president of the European Council (2012-4).^[9]

Since 2001, he has been president of the board of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece's leading think tank.^[10]

Awards and honours

In 2021, Oxford University Press published a book (Festschrift) in his honour^[11]

He was selected for the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).^[12]

He has received decorations by the President of the Hellenic Republic (Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, 2004),^[13] the President of the French Republic (Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, 2016),^[14] and the King of Spain (Order of Civil Merit, 2021) ^[15] and the Emperor of Japan (Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2022).^[16]

Selected works

• Europe's Coming of Age (Polity, 2022). ISBN 9781509554553.
• In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project be Saved? (Oxford University Press, 2016) ISBN 978-0198755319.^{[17] [18] [19]}
• What Kind of Europe? (Oxford University Press, 2003, 2005) ISBN 9780199279487.^{[20] [21] [22]}
• The New European Economy: The Politics and Economics of European Integration (Oxford University Press, 1991, 1993). ISBN 9780198287506.^[23]
• The New European Economy Revisited (Oxford University Press, 1997). .
• The Political Economy of International Money (Sage for RIIA, 1985).  Editor and author of ‘The new international monetary “system” and prospects for reform’. ISBN 0803997116.^[24]
• The Politics and Economics of European Monetary Integration (Allen & Unwin, 1977).  Reprinted by Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-1138732025.^[25]

His books have been translated into several languages.

References

1. Web site: Loukas TSOUKALIS Coleurope . 2022-07-26 . College of Europe.
2. Web site: Editorial Board Journal of Common Market Studies .
3. Web site: Professors Emeritus and Retired Staff . 2022-07-26 . siteA-EN . en.
4. Web site: Our History .
5. Web site: Loukas Tsoukalis reinforces 'Europe in Crisis' Programme as Visiting Professor Website archive King's College London . 2022-07-26 . King’s College London.
6. Web site: 2016-01-15 . Professor Tsoukalis will be the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University . 2022-05-23 . ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ . en-US.
7. Web site: Center for European Studies, Harvard University .
8. Web site: SCIENCES PO - Course Directory . 2022-07-26 . Sciences Po.
9. Book: Europe's transformations: essays in honour of Loukas Tsoukalis . Oxford University Press . 2021.
10. Web site: Loukas Tsoukalis . ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ . 12 October 2008.
11. Book: Europe's Transformations: Essays in Honour of Loukas Tsoukalis . 2022-01-28 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-289582-0 . Oxford, New York.
12. Web site: 2022 Recipient Prof Loukas Tsoukalis . UACES . en.
13. Web site: 2004-09-23 . Τιμητικές διακρίσεις σε 14 Έλληνες από τον Πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας . 2022-07-26 . in.gr . el.
14. Web site: Remise des insignes de la Légion d'honneur à M. Loukas Tsoukalis . 2022-05-23 . Ambassade de France en Grèce - Πρεσβεία της Γαλλίας στην Ελλάδα . fr.
15. Web site: 2021-09-23 . The Cross of the Order of Civil Merit has been awarded to Loukas Tsoukalis by the Ambassador of Spain . 2022-05-23 . ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ . en-US.
16. Web site: 2021-09-23 . The Cross of the Order of Civil Merit has been awarded to Loukas Tsoukalis by the Ambassador of Spain . 2022-12-22 . ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ . en-US.
17. 'In Defence of Europe', Book by Loukas Tsoukalis (now also in Greek) . Ελιαμεπ . 12 December 2016 .
18. Lewis . Paul . Book Review: Loukas Tsoukalis, In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project be Saved? . Political Studies Review . August 2017 . 15 . 3 . 489–490 . 10.1177/1478929917708107 . 149282467 .
19. Louri . Helen . In Defence of Europe by Loukas Tsoukalis (review) . Journal of Modern Greek Studies . 2017 . 35 . 2 . 605–608 . 10.1353/mgs.2017.0039 . 149363618 . 1086-3265.
20. Jones . Erik . What Kind of Europe? ? Loukas Tsoukalis . Industrial Relations Journal . November 2006 . 37 . 6 . 689–691 . 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2006.00429_1.x . en . 0019-8692.
21. O’Cle´ireaca´in . Se´amus . What Kind of Europe? by Loukas Tsoukalis. New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. 240 pp. $35.00. . Monica Toft Harvard University.
22. Mauro . Giuseppe . Ebohon . Obas John . Marroquin . Lucia Diaz . Oldfield . Jonathan . Rodríguez . María Jesús Delgado . Reviews: What Kind of Europe?, the Earthscan Reader in International Trade and Sustainable Development, Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration, the Human Geography of East Central Europe: Development and Change within European Green Parties, Integration in an Expanding European Union: Reassessing the Fundamentals (Journal of Common Market Studies) . Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy . April 2004 . 22 . 2 . 309–316 . 10.1068/c2202rvw . en . 0263-774X. free .
23. Wood . David M. . Review of The New European Community: Decisionmaking and Institutional Change; Euro-politics: Institutions and Policymaking in the "New" European Community; The New European Economy: The Politics and Economics of Integration . The American Political Science Review . 1992 . 86 . 4 . 1106–1108 . 10.2307/1964422 . 1964422 . 153790302 . 0003-0554.
24. Edwards . Sebastian . The Debt Crisis and Economic Adjustment in Latin America . Latin American Research Review . 1989 . 24 . 3 . 172–186 . 10.1017/S0023879100023062 . 2503705 . 153244143 . 0023-8791. free .
25. Warmenhoven . Henri J. . The Politics and Economics of European Monetary Integration. By Loukas Tsoukalis. (Reading, Mass.: Allen and Unwin, 1977. Pp. 192. $18.75.) . American Political Science Review . June 1979 . 73 . 2 . 698–699 . 10.2307/1955035 . 1955035 . 156158802 . en . 0003-0554.