...George Bistis This essay traces the history of the Far Right in Greece, which is on the rise again almost four decades after the collapse of the military junta that ruled the Mediterranean country from 1967 to 1974. The author examines how the Golden Dawn party capitalized on Greek citizens...

...Sotiris G. Vandoros This essay systematically explores the role the immigration issue played in the electoral and overall political power structure of right-wing extremism in Greece as expressed by Golden Dawn. It employs a political-opportunity structure along with a discursive-opportunity...

... government and the troika, the way the shadow of war reparations hung over the shaky German Weimar Republic before 1933. Private citizens have the insecure feeling that they are powerless to affect their fate, and Golden Dawn, an extreme right-­wing parliamentary party with paramilitary elements, has...

... nationalist, anti-immigrant rhetoric, after his ouster from New Democracy 3. The ultraright nationalist party, Golden Dawn, which gained eighteen seats in the September 2015 elections, and several members of which have been formally charged with carrying out acts of violence and hate...

... .weforum.org/docs/GCR2011-­12/CountryProfiles/Greece.pdf. 20  Mediterranean Quarterly: September 2015 This was not then, in other words, a “normal” country, and it was even less so in 2015. On any given day, events in Greece seemed to confirm this. • A Golden Dawn deputy attacks a Muslim...

..., the challenges still linger. Most of Africa may not meet the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, and part of the challenge involves convincing friends and partners like African Americans to understand that there is a new dawn in Africa. A major challenge in the years ahead must...

... to be seen, however, whether all of the interested parties can set aside what appears to be intractable dif- ferences and break the string of false dawns that have beset the on-­again/ off-­again peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. While the first three essays focus on the Middle...

...-­year career, has written a compelling essay on the rise of the extreme Far Right in Greece, focusing specifically on the political party Golden Dawn. In the wake of Greece’s economic meltdown and the deterioration of PASOK’s and New Democracy’s nearly forty-year grip on Greek politics, Bistis...

... dawn up plans that would enable it to kill up to one thousand Tutsis every twenty minutes. In this cable, Dallaire requested permission from UN headquarters to launch a preemptive attack Charles Murigande is minister of foreign affairs and cooperation of the Republic of Rwanda. This essay...

... also returned to the private lending market, where through sales of government bonds it generated capital to fully fund unex- pected 2014 financing gaps.17 15. George Bistis, “Golden Dawn or Democratic Sunset: The Rise of the Far Right in Greece,” Mediterranean Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2013): 35...

... this tradition and in his inner soul: The ideal of what Greece was in “ancient” times and the ideal of what it should be in my time clash violently with what Greece is, in fact, in the dawn of the twenty- first century. I love passionately all that is still Greek in Greece. I say this with sor...

... was in “ancient” times and the ideal of what it should be in my time clash violently with what Greece is, in fact, in the dawn of the twenty- first century. I love passionately all that is still Greek in Greece. I say this with sor- row, for Christianity radically remade Greece to the point...

... Kazami, “The Caliphate Attempted,” in Trends in Islamist Ideology, vol. 7, ed. Hillel Fradkin, Eric Brown, and Hassan Mneimnah (Washington, DC: Hudson Institute, 2008), 5 – 49. 29. Aymenn Jawad al-­Tamimi, “The Dawn of the Islamic State of Iraq and Ash-­Sham” (Wash- ington, DC: Hudson...

... forces have also been modified. At the dawn of independence (and before), the country depended on TD forces and police units. Their task was to pro- tect and defend the nation’s newly found sovereignty. Today, Slovenia finds itself in a fundamentally changed political security context...

... enemies.” Terrorist violence in the West today is politically irrelevant; that’s why, when it occurs, it is even more repulsive. Greece has the longest history in the West combined with the least terror- ist activity. But at the dawn of the twenty-first...

... with the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States. Expectations are justifiably high for the dawn of a new age in Ameri- can politics and a fresh approach to world problems. No doubt, Obama’s election is a monumental event in American history and a testament to the capacity...

... by outsiders and their domestic links in ways that sound like ethnic stereo- typing. For example, when it dawned on Northern European bankers that Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were facing similar problems, they would routinely attribute their predicament to some uniquely “Southern” European...

... that date. The criminal terrorist blow at the heart of America gave evidence of the diversity and unconven- tionality of threats and risks facing international security at the dawn of the Georgi Parvanov is president of the Republic of Bulgaria. MQ 13.4-01 Parvanov...

.... The Europeans, in both Europe and the New World, still don’t think muc­h of nature. The blows against nature keep c­oming at the dawn of the twenty-first c­entury under the guise of mining, logging, and fishing; the damming of rivers; and the c­onstruc­tion of elec­tric­ity fac­tories, nuc­lear power...

... of classical literature will remember the epithets of the Greek gods: gray-eyed Athena, or ox-eyed Hera, rosy-fingered Dawn and so on. But epithet is also used as a simple synonym for term of abuse or slur, as in the sentence, ‘There is no place for racial epithets in a police officer’s vocabulary...