ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of some Greek divergences and convergences, followed by an outline of Fukuyama's approach, with a focus on the theoretical link he posits between the 'divergence thesis' and the policies implemented since 2010. Greece's first divergence from developments in other European countries dates from the post-war period. The post-war period in Europe has been characterized as capitalism's 'golden age', but the same hardly applies to Greece, for these were years of recuperation from the Civil War. Greece also diverged from the Northern and Western European model in its adoption and abandonment of Keynesian policies, which occurred with a time lag. The chapter overviews the self-fulfilling prophecy set in motion by the politics of fulfilment has generated a precarious state in Greece, with characteristics. Mainstream analyses interpret precarization as being part of a broader biopolitical project of constructing 'obedient subjects' or 'disciplined bodies' through 'modes of subjectification' and 'governmentality'.
