Newswise — "The Greek debt crisis has exposed the underlying contradictions of Europe's economic monetary union-- a single currency and market absent a single government--at a time when the EU is beset by growing conflicts among the member states, says Hamilton College political scientist Alan Cafruny. Any resolution of the debt crisis is likely to exacerbate these conflicts, calling into question the underlying logic of Union."

Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, is co-author of "A Ruined Fortress?" and "Europe at Bay." In these books, published at a time (2003 and 2007) when most observers were celebrating the emergence of a European superpower, Cafruny and his co-author Magnus Ryner explained how and why there was a "coming crisis of the euro."

Co-editor of the International Political Economy Yearbook Series, Cafruny was the co-presenter of the keynote speech at the recent "Globalisation and European Integration: The Nature of the Beast" at the University of Warwick. He presented on "The Global Financial Crisis and the Obsolescence of European Integration Theory."

Cafruny, who earned a doctorate at Cornell University, is also author of “Europe’s Ambiguous Unity.”

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