...David Binder The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has some strange partners, in terms of history. The oddest couple of all may be Greece and Turkey. The two neighbors fought four wars in the space of a quarter century (1897 to 1922) and are still mutually suspicious. But they have followed...

...Van Coufoudakis Van Coufoudakis is professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University-Purdue University. Blytas George C. : The First Victory: Greece in the Second World War . River Vale, NJ : Cosmos Publishing Company and the American Hellenic Institute Foundation...

..., or a combination of these. Utilizing survey data, this essay attempts to identify the key factors explaining the entrepreneurial initiatives of immigrants in Greece. It reviews the literature of immigrant entrepreneurship and gives an overview of immigration and the profile of immigrants in the country. The essay...

...George Bistis This essay traces the history of the Far Right in Greece, which is on the rise again almost four decades after the collapse of the military junta that ruled the Mediterranean country from 1967 to 1974. The author examines how the Golden Dawn party capitalized on Greek citizens...

... : The History of Greece . Santa Barbara, CA : Greenwood , 2012 . 215 pages. ISBN 978-0-313-37511-8 . $58.00 ( paperback ). Copyright 2013 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2013...

...Constantine P. Danopoulos Despite periods of growth, modern Greece is no stranger to severe and prolonged economic crises. Analyses of Greece’s current economic crisis have stayed clear of the seminal importance of culture as a key variable responsible for widespread and persistent corruption...

... in Island Greece . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2012 . 278 pages . ISBN 978-0-9835-3222-4 . $65 ( hardcover ). Copyright 2014 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 Reviews Charles Stewart: Dreaming and Historical...

...Elias Kulukundis Inconvenient truths about Greece’s current economic predicament are not often heard in today’s Greece, especially if they conflict with the picture presented by the Greek government. When they are heard, they are usually put down to adverse propaganda or positions of vested...

...Nikolaos Zahariadis Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Fouskas Vassilis K. and Dimoulas Constantine : Greece, Financialization, and the EU . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . 272 Pages. ISBN 978-1-137-273444 . $81 . Nikolaos Zahariadis...

...: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece . Duke University Press , 2012 . 344 pages . ISBN 978-0-8223-5106-1 . $25.95 ( paperback ). Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Review Elizabeth Anne Davis: Bad Souls...

...Van Coufoudakis Van Coufoudakis is professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University–Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Pappas Takis S. : Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . 152 pages . ISBN 978-113741-057-3 . $82...

...A. Murat Agdemir There have been important changes in the politics of the eastern Mediterranean since the discovery of energy resources and the disintegration of Turkish-Israeli relations. Israel upgraded its relationship with Greece and Cyprus after its ties with Turkey deteriorated. Since shortly...

...Constantine P. Danopoulos This essay explores and assesses the connection between accountability and the quality of democracy in modern Greece along three key dimensions: vertical, horizontal, and social. Vertical involves elected officials and the three branches of government; horizontal deals...

...Ismini A. Lamb The scale of the migrant crisis took Europe by surprise in 2015, but 2016 promised to be far worse. Europe dithered on how to respond, confusing the demands of compassion with migrant relocation policy and failing to recognize Greece's inability to resolve the crisis independently...

...Vangelis Angelis A comparison between the two dictatorships of Greece in the twentieth century (the 4th of August regime of 1936–41 and the Colonels' dictatorship of 1967–74) cannot be fruitful if it is static. One cannot understand the nature of these two regimes without studying the years...

...Van Coufoudakis Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2017 Featherstone Kevin and Papadimitriou Dimitris : Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power . Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 304 pages . ISBN 978-0-19-871717-1 . $95.00 . Van...

...Constantine A. Pagedas Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Constantine A. Pagedas is executive vice president of International Technology and Trade Associates, Inc. in Washington, DC. Ellis O. Briggs and the US Embassy in Greece, 1959 to 1962: A “Relentless Struggle...

... Evasion, and Poverty in a Democratic Setting: Greece Constantine P. Danopoulos and Boris Znidaric Generally speaking, informal economy refers to undeclared economic activity that is not recorded in the formal national economic ledgers. Also known as black, unofficial...

.... Attitudes toward the Xeno: Greece in Comparative Perspective Neovi M. Karakatsanis and Jonathan Swarts “We did not sell any tickets to Albanians, only to Greeks.” These were the words of a Greek Ministry of Public Order spokeswoman on 31 March 2005, when asked why...

...Cobie Harris Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Cobie Harris is associate professor of political science at San Jose State University, California. Costas Melakopides: Unfair Play: Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, the UK and the EU . Martello Papers 29. Kingston, Ontario: Centre...