... at Georgetown University, where he specializes in Anglo-American diplomacy during the Cold War. Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Thatcher and Reagan Atlantic Alliance Lebanon War Operation Peace for Galilee Margaret Thatcher’s Diplomacy and the 1982 Lebanon War...

...William Harris William Harris is professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic . Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Crisis in the Levant: Lebanon at Risk William...

... or False Promises: Multilateral Interventions in Darfur, Afghanistan, and Southern Lebanon Richard Rupp Fifteen years have passed since the end of the Cold War. During this time the international community has launched nearly two dozen multinational...

...Asad AbuKhalil Nasser M. Kalawoun: The Struggle for Lebanon: A Modern History of Lebanese-Egyptian Relations . London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. 224 pages. ISBN 1-86064-423-6. $59.50. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 Asad AbuKhalil is associate professor of political science...

... Committee and the chairmanship of the first Select Committee on Intelligence. Lebanon’s Contemporary Significance Lucien N. Nedzi Attentive readers of Mediterranean Quarterly since its first issue in 1989 will readily recognize some modern issues now found...

...Brent J. Talbot; Heidi Harriman Hezbollah has become a powerful yet destabilizing force in Lebanon, affecting internal stability, allowing Syria and Iran dangerous influence, delaying peace with Israel, and complicating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moreover, it forces the United States...

... Ali, “The Construction of Identity in War Discourse,” Adab Al-­Rafidayn, no. 68 (2013): 112, 115. 82  Mediterranean Quarterly: June 2017 Hezbollah’s Conflicts, the Israeli Front, and Engagement in Syria Hezbollah’s origins date back to Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon in 1978...

... surface through diplomatic means, in a spirit of compromise, mutual respect, and acceptance. To this end, the argument posited here is simple and is centered on the ideas of interconnectedness and inclusion. Approaching from four key fronts —  the war in Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian issue...

... and a robust multinational force — the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFR) — at its borders. In the framework of cooperation with the United States and the United Nations, the European Union’s role shifted from that of the key payer and major funding source of the past to key player...

... Turkey and Lebanon are only just beginning to open their Mediter- ranean maritime territory to exploration.1 The only truly unresolved major policy and commercial issue is how much gas will be developed for export markets. Over the long term, the Levant Basin may offer European and Asian mar...

... for Lebanon: A Modern History of Lebanese- Egyptian Relations. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. 224 pages. ISBN 1-86064-423-6. $59.50. Reviewed by Asad AbuKhalil. It is rather curious that the subject of Egyptian relations with Lebanon has...

... for Lebanon: A Modern History of Lebanese- Egyptian Relations. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. 224 pages. ISBN 1-86064-423-6. $59.50. Reviewed by Asad AbuKhalil. It is rather curious that the subject of Egyptian relations with Lebanon has...

... the majority (74 percent), followed by the Shiites (Alawis and Ismailis making up 13 percent), Christians (10 percent), and Druze (3 percent). During World War I, France occupied Syria and turned the western part of the country into an independent state, Lebanon. After Syria gained its independence...

... vulnerability to medium- range missiles (reaching approximately four hundred kilometers) from Iraq. The distance between Iraq and Israel is much longer than the width of the Golan. The third case is the former Israeli security zone in Lebanon. For twenty-two...

... (2) Monaco Jordan (2) Greece Montenegro Mauritania (2) Italy (2) Morocco (2) Malta Israel Portugal Lebanon Slovenia (2) Libya Spain (2...

... States also tried to shape the political environment in South Viet- nam. Washington insisted on (more or less) competitive elections and played a large role in writing South Vietnam’s constitution. Nation building was even more clearly a feature of US policy in the inter- ventions in Lebanon...

... interests effectively in the Arab world as a whole. Instead, all diplomatic (and military) effort focuses on special states, with Iraq the most dramatic case but also with emphasis on Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Syria. Meanwhile, all the affected Arab parties, including the Sunnis in Iraq...

... breached and became well known across the Middle East and the Arab Gulf. Iran’s ruling theologi- cal regime remained the patron and financier of Syria and its brutal leader- ship while itself supporting Shiite militants in Lebanon and Bahrain. But even in Iran itself, the efforts to submerge popular...

... with non- Arab states on the periphery of the region with which Israel had no direct conflict, including Iran and Ethiopia, as well as with ethnic and religious minorities, like the Maronites in Lebanon and the Kurds in Iraq. The fact that, like...

... for the delimitation of the EEZ with Lebanon. Turkey immedi- ately objected to the signing of this maritime agreement and alleged that Lebanon should ask for Turkey’s opinion before signing any agreement with Cyprus, since it should contain “a Turkish part,” according to Ankara. Both of these agreements were...