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As the eurozone’s weakest economy struggles to bring sovereign debt under control, can Greece’s new government turn the economy around, and is the country able to accept the pain of transformation into a modern state? At the heart of the Greek debt crisis are outmoded attitudes towards the state as a duty bearer, and the role of citizens as rights holders that do not sit well with the needs of a modern state functioning in a globally-linked economic and financial system. The stakes are too high for failure, but do Greeks really have sufficient appetite for real change?