.... Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Terrorism in the United States: Revisiting the Hart-Rudman Commission William W. Ellis The terrorist threat to the United States was recognized before the horrible events of 11 September 2001...

... Commission Report 53 were warranted. Other criticisms were classic exercises in twenty-twenty hindsight. Bits of intelligence data that stand out in retrospect were just a small portion of a barrage of data at the time, and the commissioners failed to adequately take that inherent problem...

...Spyridon N. Litsas Since 2010 Greece has been between a rock and a hard place. In particular, since May 2010 the so-called troika (European Commission, International Monetary Fund, and European Central Bank) has provided financial support to Greece through an economic adjustment program while...

... is a response to jihadists' post-9/11 organizational and ideological problems. The loss of al Qaeda's Afghan sanctuary had made it dependent on affiliates to recruit terrorists. The failure of the North African Salafists to overthrow any government, moreover, requires the commissioning of a new cause. AQIM...

...Richard L. Jackson The inauguration of President Barack Obama offers a historic opportunity to reshape America's interface with the world at large and to undo errors of commission, omission, and neglect of the past decade. US assets undervalued and underused in recent years will be rediscovered...

..., including the promotion of democracy and respect for human rights; 2. economic cooperation, with the most important aspect being the progres- sive establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean free trade area by 2010 — the 3. See, for example, Commission of the European Communities, Information...

..., this discussion uses the term European Union throughout, even where it addresses events that unfolded before 1993. 78 Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2007 eign policy resources. In this context the European Commission, which had the power to negotiate trade agreements with third parties, offered the best...

... of commissioners. Its members should be nominated from political parties represented in parliament through a proportional for- mula to be implemented by the speaker. The commission should be set up within thirty days of the passing of the needed constitutional amendments and embark on key electoral...

..., in June 1992, the European Commission stated that to qualify for EU membership candidates should satisfy the conditions of “European identity, democratic status, and respect for human rights,” as well as should be willing to accept legal, political, and economic systems of the EU.7 However...

... Crisis of Internal Displacement (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1998), 23–9. See also United Nations High Commissioner for Refu- gees (UNHCR), The State of the World’s Refugees (New York: UNHCR, 1998), 112–5; and World Health Organization, Internally Displaced Persons: Health and WHO, paper presented...

.../ECPR Rotating Summer School, EU Enlargement and Euro-Mediterranean Relations, 15–22 September 2002, Rethymno, Crete, Greece. Pace, Stavridis, and Xenakis: Parliaments and Civil Society 81 organized.9 Up to that time, the European Commission and European gov- ernments would...

... to address the problem of minorities in the delta region and its response to the recommendations of the Willink Commission of enquiry into the plight of the minorities in the region. Niger Delta: The Geography and People The Niger Delta is one of the largest wetlands in the world...

..., no. 4 (2012): 433 – 53; Marianne Riddervold, “(Not) in the Hands of the Member States: How the European Commission Influences EU Security and Defence Policies,” Journal of Common Market Studies 54, no. 2 (2016): 353 – 69. 6. Mitchell A. Orenstein and R. Daniel Kelemen, “Trojan Horses in EU...

... 2002, a meeting was held in Geneva between the UN secretary-general and the presidents of Cameroon and Nigeria. During that meeting both presidents agreed to establish a commission made up of represen- tatives from both countries to address differences and consider all the implica- tions...

...Stephen C. Calleya Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Stephen C. Calleya is deputy director of and senior lecturer in international relations at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies,University of Malta. This article was drafted with financial assistance from the Commission...

... the EC and created an interministerial commission, charged with the mis- sion to analyze the European integration alternatives and make recommen- dations. Given the continuing authoritarian nature of the regime (as well as other factors, such as the relatively low level of economic development...

... high-powered presidential or congressional commissions becomes a basis for a continued emphasis within the U.S. domestic arena for arguments to build defensive systems like the NMD and the TMD in order to contain the rogue states. Third...

... F. Staar In July 1991, Russian president Boris N. Yeltsin issued a decree establish- ing a commission that would recommend the structure and duties of the soon to be created Security Council (Soviet Bezopasnosti), to be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Iurii B. Skokov. The following...

... that they were open, competitive, and honest, OSCE officials argued that they also had an implied mandate to ensure freedom of expression and the press. To that end, OSCE’s Provisional Election Commission (PEC) drew up an electoral code of conduct in early 1996 that included...

... for the international prestige Karamanlis enjoyed. This became obvious at a cru- cial junction of the accession process when the European Commission was asked to evaluate Greece’s application for full membership. The evaluators concluded that the country was not quite ready yet. In a written opinion published 28...