...Ilia Xypolia This essay draws on archival documents to explore the British Empire's plans for establishing a university in the eastern Mediterranean in the 1930s. The British possessions in the region were at stake in the aftermath of the First World War. Since the early 1930s the Foreign Office...

...Craig A. Harrington British geostrategic considerations underwent an ad hoc metamorphosis during the decade following Great Britain’s retreat from formal territorial empire (1957-67). This essay investigates the shifting roles envisioned by British policymakers for vestigial colonial holdings...

... such as geographic division of municipalities, allocation of sovereign territory by a colonial power (the British), taxation and allocation of resources for the two communities to manage their affairs separately, the extent of integration of the armed forces, and the ratio of participation in the civil service...

... Organization. The campaign opened a violent episode in the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict. Almost immediately the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office recognized the challenge to the international community. The crisis in the Middle East occurred during a period of substantial turnover in the foreign...

...Sebastián Royo Is globalization forcing economies that are not coordinated market economies, such as Spain's, to converge on a British-American model? This essay seeks to build on the hypotheses generated by the literature on varieties of capitalism to analyze the challenges of developing...

... through the United Nations has been successful in providing security for Cyprus over decades. The essay then explores ways in which security can be achieved in cooperation with the UK government and the British Sovereign Base Areas. Further, it extensively examines how the North Atlantic Treaty...

... to British-American ties. Nearly four decades have passed since scholars first debated the meaning of this expression, as well as the substance and significance of the bilateral rela- tionship it denotes. Coral Bell provided a useful entry into the discussion...

...James Coomarasamy James Coomarasamy is a presenter of the Newshour program for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s World Service. Viroli Maurizio : The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi’s Italy . Translated by Shugaar Antony . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University...

... begins with the negotiations in 1915 between Sir Mark Sykes, a British MP and putative Middle East expert, and François Georges-­Picot, a French diplomat, ardent imperial- ist, and Anglophobe. Between them, the two men carved up the Middle East, mostly without much input from their political masters...

... Reviews  121 begins with the negotiations in 1915 between Sir Mark Sykes, a British MP and putative Middle East expert, and François Georges-­Picot, a French diplomat, ardent imperial- ist, and Anglophobe. Between them, the two men carved up the Middle East, mostly without much input from...

... Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2002 During the conference, the British favored maintenance of the provisions of Sèvres. Throughout the nineteenth century, Britain’s policy, inspired by confidence in the Ottoman Empire and a fear of Russia, had been directed...

... Africa (Namibia since 1990). British authority in southern Nigeria was accepted.11 Portugal was allowed to keep Cabinda.12 The more serious partition, however, took place after the conference; the European powers signed and ratified numerous bilateral treaties to delimit their possessions...

... the Mediterranean Sea controlled perhaps one of the most commercially important and militarily strate- gic waterways on earth. The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, French, British, Russians, Germans, and even Americans, as well as the Italian mari- time states, among others, all recognized...

... the Mediterranean Sea controlled perhaps one of the most commercially important and militarily strate- gic waterways on earth. The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, French, British, Russians, Germans, and even Americans, as well as the Italian mari- time states, among others, all recognized...

... the Mediterranean Sea controlled perhaps one of the most commercially important and militarily strate- gic waterways on earth. The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, French, British, Russians, Germans, and even Americans, as well as the Italian mari- time states, among others, all recognized...

..., and British atlanticism, which supports a United States that is deeply engaged in Euro- pean affairs. Today, the transatlantic relationship is at a critical juncture. Europe’s two most important organizations, NATO and the EU, which were MQ 12.4-08 Pagedas 10/16/01 1...

..., and that Nazi Germany would help him get it to the detriment of French imperial possessions. Not convinced that Britain deserved an empire and should be willing to fight for it, Chamberlain’s British government deceived itself that Mussolini would be a mediating factor tempering Hitler’s territorial...

... imperial possessions. Not convinced that Britain deserved an empire and should be willing to fight for it, Chamberlain’s British government deceived itself that Mussolini would be a mediating factor tempering Hitler’s territorial aspirations and be enticed at the same time away from a military alliance...

..., and that Nazi Germany would help him get it to the detriment of French imperial possessions. Not convinced that Britain deserved an empire and should be willing to fight for it, Chamberlain’s British government deceived itself that Mussolini would be a mediating factor tempering Hitler’s territorial...

... Jan Asmussen: Cyprus at War: Diplomacy and Conflict during the 1974 Crisis . London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008. 364 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84511-742. $100. Reviewed by William Mallinson. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 William Mallinson, a former British diplomat, is lecturer...