Dr. Pavlos Roufos
Contact: roufos.pavlosuuni-potsdampde
Profil
Political science, political economy. Expertise & interests in neoliberalism/ordoliberalism, European integration, central banks, constitutional law, global governance.
PhD (Dr.rer.pol) from the department of Political Science in Kassel University. Topic “Ordoliberalism and the Making of the Economic Constitution: State, Law, and Money in the Market Economy” with Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer
Akademischer Werdegang
2017-2022: PhD, Department of Political Science, Kassel University
1999-2001: MA in Social and Political Thought, Department of Law, Politics and Sociology, Unversity of Sussex
1996-1999: BA in Philosophy with Politics, Department of Social Sciences, University of Sussex
Arbeitserfahrung
2024-2025: Visiting Lecturer (Lehrauftrag) at Potsdam University, seminar “European integration and its crises” (undergraduate)
2024: Visiting Lecturer (Lehrauftrag) at Potsdam University, seminar “European integration and its crises” (graduate)
2024: Visiting Lecturer (Lehrauftrag) at Witten-Herdecke University, seminar “Global Governance and the birth of International Institutions”, graduate
2023: Visiting Lecturer (Lehrauftrag) at Witten-Herdecke University, seminar “Theories of European integration”, graduate
2019-2020: Visiting Lecturer (Lehrauftrag) at Kassel University, seminar “The Eurozone crisis”, graduate
Publikationen (Auswahl):
Books
- Roufos, Pavlos (manuscript under review) 100 Years of Neoliberalism: Making the Economic Constitution, Stanford University Press (letter of interest attached)
- Roufos, Pavlos (2018) A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: on the Greek Crisis and other Disasters, Reaktion Books UK / University of Chicago Press US
Selected reviews of the book:
- Science & Society, Vol. 87. No. 1, January 2023, pp. 136-139
- Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, March 2019
- Capital & Class, Vol. 43, Issue 1, pp. 212-214
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Forthcoming
- Roufos, Pavlos (accepted, forthcoming) ‘Central bank independence’, entry for Encyclopaedia of Neoliberalism, ed. Dieter Plehwe & Haagen Schulz-Forberg, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Roufos, Pavlos (under review) ‘Revisiting ordoliberal influence in the process of early European integration’, submitted for forthcoming special issue of Contemporary European History journal.
Work in progress
- Roufos, Pavlos & Massoc, Elsa-Clara (co-author), ‘When Cerberus and Hercules are working together: regulatory derisking and new legal technologies in NPL management in Greece’, target journal Finance and Society
- Roufos, Pavlos, ‘Ordoliberalism and central bank independence: a case of foster parenting?’, target journal New Political Economy
- Roufos, Pavlos ‘The political economy of European constitutional battles: the BVerfG May 2020 ruling in context’, target journal European Law Open
Published
- Roufos, Pavlos (2024) ‘Spectres of European Money and Stefan Eich’s Currency of Politics’, European Law Open, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 654-670.
- Roufos, Pavlos (2023) ‘Ordoliberalism’s advice for economic policy making’, in Handbook on Critical Political Economy, Elgar Original Reference Series, Edward Elgar Publishing, March 2023.
- Roufos, Pavlos (2022) Conservative Liberalism, Ordoliberalism and the State: a review, in Contemporary Political Theory, November 2022.
- Roufos, Pavlos (2021) ‘The Discreet Charm of the ‘Bourgeois Bloc’, review of The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the origins of France’s Political Crisis, by Amable, Bruno & Palombarini, Stefano, Verso, 2021, in Tocqueville 21 Journal, June 2021
- Roufos, Pavlos (2021) Unwitting Architect: German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism: a review (Stanford University Press, 2021), in Journal of Law and Political Economy, Vol. 1, Issue 3
- Roufos, Pavlos (2020) ‘Ordoliberalism out of order? The Fragile Constitutionality of Greek Austerity, Parts I & II’, in Legal Form, May & June 2020
Public Writings (selection)
- Roufos Pavlos (2024) ‘“The First Cause of Stability of Our Currency is the Concentration Camp”: Central Banker Solidarity on the road to Hitler’s Czechoslovakian gold’, Notes on the Crises, available here
- Roufos, Pavlos (2023) ‘Europe’s authoritarian shift’, Le Grand Continent (in French and Spanish), available in English here
- Roufos, Pavlos (2023) ‘Europas murar avskräcker inte – de mördar’, for Flamman (in Swedish)
- Roufos, P (2023) ‘Victorious defeat’, tribute to Gaspar Miklos Tamas, in New Left Review, March 2023
- Roufos, P (2020) ‘A Disaster Foretold’, in Brooklyn Rail, New York, May 2020