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global and transnational social and political-economic forces84. The failure of the state
was articulated in the media and beyond, dually, in terms of internal ineptitude (see figure
2) and impuissance relative to external forces (see figure 3).
Figure 2∙. Political cartoon, I Kathimerini (H Kαθημεpιvη) newspaper August 21s', 2000
Figure 3: Political cartoon, I Kathimerini (H Kαθημεprvη) newspaper March 19th, 2002
84 In the case of foreign policy, Ioakimidis argues that Greece used to produce not policies but “procedures”
and “management” as substitutes for policy ( 1999:180), a strategy analysts argue is still veιy much in
practice in Greece today (see, for example, Monastiriotis & Tsamis 2007).