...Ted Galen Carpenter Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Toward a Grand Bargain with Iran Ted Galen Carpenter Iran would be at or near the top of a list...

...Donald M. Payne Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Donald M. Payne, Democrat of New Jersey, is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee. Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: Bargaining with Law Breakers Donald M. Payne...

... into Tabriz in 1501 and declared Shi9i Islam the state religion, Iran has been the home of a proud and nation- alistic people. Unlike many other nation-states in the region, Iran managed successfully to resist colonialism. Iran maintained its national integrity by resorting to its bargaining...

... model). In the area of industrial relations there has also been significant coopera- tion among unions, employers, and the Basque government, and this despite the relevance of national-level bargaining and the interference of political factors linked with the sovereignty dispute.24 The social...

... cloud the prospects for prog- ress. Going forward, both sides to the Cyprus problem need to convince one another, Europeans, Americans, and others that this time they want a solu- tion and are prepared to bargain to get one. The February 2013 election of a new government in Nicosia ranks high...

...- tinct but are consciously channeled into and aligned with a set of commonly held EU preferences — ­for example, the pursuit of free-­trade agreements. Andrew Moravcsik extends this view by suggesting that Europeanization is a bottom-­up process involving bargaining between member states through...

... the United States basing rights during the first phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003 provided an advantage in its bargaining position for European Union membership.11 Nonetheless, even where national leaders make nominally rational deci- sions, they may be unsuccessful...

... in their relations with other states are shaped by the spaces within which they are situated. Geopolitics explains the utility of strategic locations to the bargaining power of states and their relations with others in geographically contested spaces. In the context of the politics of disarmament, geopolitics...

... to similar structural changes in Europe’s agricultural sector. That the com- mission succeeded in doing so was due to its superior bargaining power. The Saleh: Europe in the Middle East and Northern Africa 81 southern Mediterranean countries had much smaller economies. Rejecting...

... decision put the process back on track. In January 2005, despite US objections, talks were resumed and bargaining began over the trade, technical assistance, and nuclear cooperation that Iran would get. The EU was eager to expand economic ties with Iran—one of the world’s fastest- growing countries...

... is a critical regional player, but it must not be allowed to dictate the terms under which peace is negotiated. The Libyan- Egyptian Joint Initiative (LEJI) must be recognized for what it is: a trans- parent diplomatic ploy to take southern self-determination off the bargain- ing table. The LEJI...

... address on 7 April 2004, President Tassos Papadopoulos stated that the Greek Cypriots were asked to deliver immediately their part of the bargain — including the dissolution of the republic — whereas the Turkish side’s delivery would be stretched over fifteen years. In an effort to under- mine...

...-­seven-­year draconian sentence on Karadzic’s vice president Momcilo Krajisnik in 2006, and convicted Milan Babic, a fifty-­year-­old dentist propelled to the post of president of the hapless Serb Republic of Krajina. Babic “committed suicide” after plea bargaining for a soft ten-­year prison...

... societies: (1) electoral incentives for campaigning politicians to reach out to and attract votes from a range of ethnic groups other than their own; (2) arenas of bargaining, in which political actors from different groups have an incentive to come together to negotiate and bargain in the search...

... Year’s holidays, and with a new bin Laden audio tape at the beginning of 2004 urging jihad against the United States—the latter two both highlight- ing that going to war against Iraq was not part of the war on terrorism against al Qaeda—the price tag is anything but a bargain. And having captured...

... embargo of October 1973, OPEC oper- ated primarily as an informal bargaining unit for resource-­rich developing-­ world countries and confined itself to gaining a larger share of the profits generated by Western oil companies and greater control over member pro- duction levels.44 The second oil...

... in the belief that the group can be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Ankara, pos- sibly looking ahead to obtaining Turkey’s endorsement of his region’s quasi- independent status if the Iraqi state collapses. Barzani has also increased tension by suggesting in April 2007 that he might...

... they have a powerful bargaining hand over Cyprus. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is frustrated at the failure of the Western world to intervene effectively in Syria, and at the same time, is under domestic pressures for political reform, caught between the demands of the urban middle classes...

... US troops through Turkey for an Iraqi invasion, the US government has agreed to pay a bribe of up to $30 billion and has made certain bargains [with Ankara] it isn’t eager to spell out.” See State Department Briefing, 3 March 2003. 2. See the essays in “Where Is the International Community...

... US troops through Turkey for an Iraqi invasion, the US government has agreed to pay a bribe of up to $30 billion and has made certain bargains [with Ankara] it isn’t eager to spell out.” See State Department Briefing, 3 March 2003. 2. See the essays in “Where Is the International Community...