Among European publics ‘the Greek crisis’ is a phrase that invokes images of corruption, poor government, civil unrest, and social turmoil. Foreign governments and political commentators have grasped that this narrative also provides a way to provoke political change in their own countries. By threatening a future ‘akin to Greece,’ unpopular domestic reforms are passed and internal political uprisings instigated. Phrases such as “Greek tragedy,” “Greece stands as a warning,” “the Greek alternative,” and “following Greece into crisis” are circulated, creating a politics of fear based on uniformed rhetoric of crisis and insecurity.

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