Since coming to power in January, the Greek government, led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza party, has believed that the threat of default – and thus of a financial crisis that might break up the euro – provides negotiating leverage to offset Greece’s lack of economic and political power. Months later, Tsipras and his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, an academic expert in game theory, still seem committed to this view, despite the lack of any evidence to support it.
如此惊险绝非巧合。自1月执政以来，由总理齐普拉斯的左翼联盟（Syriza）党领导的希腊政府认为，违约——以及可能由此导致的欧元区崩溃——威胁能够给希腊提供谈判筹码，抵消其在经济和政治实力上的弱势。几个月后，齐普拉斯和他的财政部长、博弈论专家瓦鲁法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）似乎仍坚持这一观点，尽管根本没有证据可以支持这一看法。