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In 2010, as the Greek economy wavered on the edge of a financial precipice and the scale of its financial crisis could no longer be hidden from the public by policy makers and bankers, an internet joke went viral. It went something like this.
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Michel Foucault, ‘The Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom’, in Michel Foucault and Paul Rabinow (eds) The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954 — 1984 Volume 1: Ethics — Subjectivity and Truth (New York: The New Press, 1997) p. 290.
G. Federico Mancini, ‘Europe: The Case for Statehood’, European Law Journal, 4(1) (March 1998) p. 30 (my emphasis).
For a detailed account of events and the British response see Richard Davis, ‘The “Problem of de Gaulle”: British Reactions to General de Gaulle’s Veto of the UK Application to Join the Common Market’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 32, No. 4 (1997) pp. 453–464.
Jane O’Mahoney, ‘Ireland’s EU Referendum Experience’, Irish Political Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2009) p. 430.
A particularly effective historical analysis of intrinsic moral order can be found in William E. Connolly, The Augustinian Imperative (2nd edition) (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002).
Augustine, City of God, Trans. Henry Bettenson (London: Penguin Classics, 2003).
The origins of this formulation can be found in a radically different political context in Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure, Trans. R. Hurley, (London: Penguin Books, 1984) p. 25ff.
John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920) Project Gutenberg E-text by Rick Niles and Jon King, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15776/pg15776.txt, accessed 12 May 2013.
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Lee, P. (2015). Who Mentioned the War?. In: Truth Wars. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137298492_10
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