...Melissa McConnell Foreign policy capacity is defined as dynamic, information-based adaptation by nation-states in complex, ambiguous environments that involve their domestic systems as well as external variables. On questions of Bosnia and Kosovo, Serbia's policy capacity is weakened by lack...

... at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Copyright 2016 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2016 Turkey urban renewal Istanbul Sulukule Fikirtepe Urban Renewal Projects and Democratic Capacities of Citizens Sultan Tepe Every city has the compass of a nation rather than a city...

... are suspicious of China’s strategic intentions and addressing China’s own knowledge and capacity deficits in dealing with the governmental and nongovernmental actors in the Central Asia, South Asia, and Middle East regions. Minghao Zhao is a research fellow at the Charhar Institute, a Chinese international...

... international strategies. At the state level, Turkey's military and diplomatic capacity was not sufficient to shape the political transformations in Syria and Egypt. At the international level, Turkey could not effectively respond to the challenges of the Iranian-led and Saudi Arabian–led blocs. The former...

... of the financial sector has been much softer than in the 1930s. This is partly due to financial globalization that extends beyond the capacities of national regulators. Macroeconomic antidepression measures have created new realities: the rise of indebted states. The sovereign crisis imposes market discipline...

... multipolarity and independent European Union military capacity while opposing a global role for NATO. He called for protection against the negative impacts of globalization and promoted EU.wide industrial .champions.. He opposed Turkey.s entry into the EU on cultural and antiterrorist grounds. Instead, he...

... such as the worsening conditions in Iraq, and the deepening problems in the Palestinian.Israeli debacle, currently constrain Turkey.s potential to serve the Middle East region in the capacity of soft.security provider by means of creating inspration for democratization and socioeconomic developments. Mediterranean...

...Umit Cizre When one takes stock of Turkey's capacities and limitations not in terms of geopolitics, Islamism, or the Kurdish question but from a sociological and political perspective focused on internal challenges and prospects, perhaps the most critical concern turns out to be the civil—military...

... trade links between China and the Eurasia-Africa zone. However, the implementation of a Maritime Silk Road via the Mediterranean Sea cannot succeed unless there is a way to bridge the gap between economic interests and the capacity to protect those interests. China MSRI Belt and Road Initiative...

... own domestic crude oil and because of its problems in the available refining capacities, Albania does not import crude oil. It is instead an exporter, with crude oil making up around 30 percent of the country’s 2013 exports. Albanian crude oil is currently being exported by small tankers...

..., many, if not most, states experience varying degrees of failure to live up to the optimistic standards of good governance and the management of the affairs of the state. At the extreme end of failure is the total collapse of the state, when the capacity to respond to crises disappears or diminishes...

... realignment that is hard to imagine, given what has occurred in their relations since the Mavi Marmara rift of 2010, Israel cannot logically commit more than 50 percent of its entire export capacity. This capacity is limited to 16 bcm per year for twenty years, according to the country’s gas export...

... climate change could wreak havoc on coastal Mediterranean nations, particularly for those countries that lack the infrastructure and capacity to rebuild and recover after catastrophe occurs. • The rapid spread of disease, particularly HIV/AIDS, will compound the negative effects of rapid...

... organizational arrangements of decentralization that have been applied in cases around the world. First, it includes devolution, or the building of capacities of subnational government agencies, which was the approach applied by Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Brazil. Second, the road- map incorporates...

... underlying assumptions and expectations that support free trade. Next, it analyzes how international financial institutions (IFI) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank along with the Washington Consensus have impacted state capacity in coffee-­exporting states in sub-­Saharan...

... to build sufficient Chadian capacity to manage and monitor oil production. The critics were particularly insistent that a detailed plan be in place to deal with the possibility of oil spills along the pipeline route and at the offshore loading facility—some- thing that had not been done. While...

... than 60 percent of Syrian oil production and almost 10 percent of the Iraqi oil production. This amounted to approximately twenty oil fields with a total production capacity of about 80,000 – 120,000 barrels of oil per day, and the IS sold the oil from these fields for a price of $25 – $50 per...

... unanimously finally decided that the EU must have the capacity to embark on autonomous action in order to respond to inter- national crises without NATO. Further, it was decided during the European Council meeting in Helsinki in December 1999 that the creation of a mili- tary force able to deploy...

... fully in politics and avoid the appeal of demagogues.6 As capitalism increased the economic capacity of the West and democracy continued to evolve and become more inclusive, the association between free market economics and democracy solidified. The linkage between liberal economics...

... civilian nuclear power and military applications. Thus, despite the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, nuclear power capacity is projected to substantially increase. This increase, however, adds only a little to its share of global electricity generation due to the impressive rise of renewable energy...