Front Cover -- Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Editors/Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- PART I: IRELAND -- Chapter 1 'The myth of the Celtic Tiger': The political economy of Irish development since the 1990s -- Introduction -- Phases of the political economy of the Celtic Tiger -- Ireland's 'crony capitalism' -- Outcomes: inequality, unsustainability -- Social partnership: Avoiding rather than confronting challenges -- What now for the Irish model of developmentquest -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2 Power, corruption and lies: Irish political, economic and social policy: 1900-2011 -- Introduction -- Policy formation before and after independence -- Eamon DeValera: corporatism and protectionism -- Fianna fÃil and catholic corporatism: Church and state -- The ideology of 'mother Ireland' -- Irish policy in the war years and era of modernisation -- Development and decline: The 1950s to the 1980s -- Economic neo-corporatism in the 1990s: From partnership to the 'Celtic Tiger' -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Sustainability and community: 'The un-sustainability of the social model of neo-liberal globalisation and the speechlessness of the community at the periphery' -- Language disorder in a disordered lifeworld -- Precarity and social pathology -- The socio-genesis of speechlessness -- Structural violence displaced to the community: Intimate violence, ambivalence and schizmogenesis -- 'Tongues of fire' and 'the burn' -- Outside of language there is only chaos and madness, silence and death (Beckett) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Social partnership and the fiscal crisis in Ireland: Acceptance or acquiescencequest -- Naïve capitalism -- Social partnership -- References.

Chapter 5 An issue history and event analysis of the green party and sustainable politics in Ireland -- Introduction -- Event history analysis 1: The green 'party family' emerges -- Event history analysis 2: The 2007 general election campaign -- Event history analysis 3: The general election outcome -- Event history analysis 4: The negotiations for government -- Event history analysis 5: The greens in government -- Event history analysis 6: The greens and coalition -- Event history analysis 7: The Lisbon treaty debates -- Event history analysis 8: The Lisbon referenda -- Event history analysis 8: Outcome -- Notes -- References -- PART II: GREECE AND THE EUROZONE -- Chapter 6 Euro's crisis: From the sovereigns to the banks and back to the sovereigns -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Greece and the EU: Promoting the idea of sustainable development. Easy to plan, hard to achieve -- Introduction -- European Environmental Policy -- The EEP influence on Greek Environmental Policy -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion - Proposals -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Green politics in Greece at the time of fiscal crisis -- Introduction -- A short history of Greek Green politics -- Greens and the economy -- The goal of ''green development'' -- 'Green development' at the time of the Greek fiscal crisis -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Environmental policy in Greece reloaded: Plurality, participation and the Sirens of neo-centralism -- Introduction -- The impact of EU membership -- The rise of non-state actors -- The challenge of decentralisation -- From closeness to pluralityquest -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Social capital and environmental policies in Greece -- Introduction -- Social capital and environmental policies -- Social acceptability and social capital in Greece -- Empirical findings.

Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Conclusion: Peripheral P.I.G.S. in the last chance saloonhellips -- Notes -- About the Editors -- About the Authors.