... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. A Sea of Opportunities: The EU and China in the Mediterranean Romano Prodi Asia’s new economic and political strength — particularly China’s — and its increasing economic ties with Europe are giving the Mediterranean region an opportunity...

... Studies, Bologna Center, from 2003 to 2006. Abulafia David : The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . 816 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-532334-4 . $34.95 (hardcover) . Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012...

...George L. Vásquez Vincent P. O'Hara: Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940 – 1945 . Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2009. 352 pages. ISBN 1-5911-4648-8. $34.95 (hardcover). Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 George L...

... of Maryland. A shorter version of this essay was presented at a conference of the American Hellenic Institute Foundation on the fiftyyear anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus, Washington, DC, 5 October 2010. Copyright 2011 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. Hydrocarbons and the Law of the Sea...

...Mordechai Chaziza The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most important maritime highways in international trade and a marine traffic hub at the western end of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This essay examines the role of Mediterranean countries in the construction and realization...

...Peter E. Paraschos With Israel and Cyprus recently confirming massive offshore gas reserves in the Levant Basin, the eastern Mediterranean Sea region is emerging as a significant new source of natural gas. The major economic and geopolitical implications explored in this essay include...

... of the Mediterranean Sea and Europe’s core, the spectrum of Italy’s foreign policy options opens to innovative forms of cooperation with China to meet the challenges emanating from the European Union’s southern and southeastern neighborhoods. An integrated study of the dynamics of Sino-Italian bilateral relations...

...Theodore C. Kariotis Theodore C. Kariotis is professor of economics at Towson University, Maryland. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 A Greek Exclusive Economic Zone in the Aegean Sea Theodore C. Kariotis For more than thirty...

... and a principal of Mediterranean Advisors, LLC. Greening the Mediterranean: Europe’s Environmental Policy toward Mediterranean Neighbors Pamela Lesser The Mediterranean is Europe’s largest sea and throughout history has played as much of a role in uniting...

..., however, demonstrates just how difficult and contentious potential cooperation among the regional players can be. Magnus Nordenman follows with “Europe and Its Seas in the Twenty-­First Century.” His overall argument demonstrates that the Mediterranean Sea has been and remains one of the world’s...

...- kan and Arab counties of the Mediterranean Sea. Our analysis focuses on the impacts that the political system and the level of economic development have. We believe that these factors are of critical importance for the extent of corrup- tion in the region, given the fact that the region’s...

..., such as environmental concerns, marine pollution, and tourism. Recently, how- ever, the issue of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe has dominated its agenda. PACE has regularly discussed the matter and called on individual states to address the problem. The involvement...

... of peace.” The agreement would cover Savir: Pax Mediterraneo 21 • full diplomatic, cultural, and commercial relations among all Mediter- ranean countries; • recognition that the Mediterranean Sea as the common natural treasure and resource must...

... Putin. Indeed, alongside Russia’s campaign to influence the 2016 US presidential election and its military buildup in the Baltic Sea region, Russia may now be consid- ered one of the greatest among the many threats to the peace and stability of the Mediterranean region. Washington’s current...

... the military capabilities and the political expertise necessary to successfully operate on the southern shore of the Mediterra- nean Sea. The aim of this essay is to assess the prospects for EU-­Chinese security cooperation in the Mediterranean region. The first section focuses on the doctrinal...

... on the different sides of the Mediterranean Sea. Prosperity gaps are an issue of importance, given the fact that overall security and political cooperation in the wider Mediterranean region are impossible to achieve without economic stability and the multilevel rapprochement of the people. Such a rapprochement...

..., the Mediterranean Sea has become the crossroads of people on the move and the stage on which human tragedy unfolds almost on a daily basis. Human cargoes fl oat from island to island in the eastern Aegean, with boat crews waiting for the opportunity to dump these people on dry land, after having extracted...

... Reviews  105 Reviews David Abulafia: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 816 pages. ISBN 978-0-19- 532334-4. $34.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Marisa R. Lino. When I was asked to review this addictive book...

..., Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) and Mashreq (the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia, namely, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Palestin- ian Authority, and the Persian Gulf countries). The states of Israel, Cyprus, Malta, and Turkey should also be noted in the latter...

...Martin N. Murphy This essay describes the piracy that took place in the Mediterranean from the time of ancient Greece to Barbary. It explains the corso , the sea war between nonstate but state-endorsed Christian and Muslim parties, with reference to the Knights of Malta and, more extensively...