...Petros Vamvakas The geopolitical game of the twenty-first century will be multilateral and multidimensional, placing great emphasis on political and commercial interests such as resources, markets, ecology, and finance than on military interests. This essay argues that the eastern Mediterranean...

... of the eastern Mediterranean and the prospects it presents for Euro-Atlantic strategic priorities. Marina Skordeli is director of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Athens. She was formerly a foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis of Greece. Copyright 2015...

...A. Murat Agdemir There have been important changes in the politics of the eastern Mediterranean since the discovery of energy resources and the disintegration of Turkish-Israeli relations. Israel upgraded its relationship with Greece and Cyprus after its ties with Turkey deteriorated. Since shortly...

... with Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. Greece and Cyprus, on the other hand, were almost completely satisfied with the benefits of the Constitution of the Oceans, as it has also been known, and voted in favor of the convention. Theodore C. Kariotis is professor of economics, University...

...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...

...: Implications for Europe, Cyprus, and the Eastern Mediterranean George Vassiliou The enlargement of the European Union and its recent efforts to embrace the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean is not a new phenomenon. In reality, since...

...Evaghoras L. Evaghorou In recent years, the eastern Mediterranean has been characterized by instability and intense competition among states and nonstate actors. This is mainly because of the Syrian crisis, the terrorist activity of the Islamic State in Syria, the competition over energy sources...

...Michael Clarke The eastern Mediterranean, and particularly Cyprus, had been set for some sort of international crisis throughout 2013. Many tense situations become spring loaded by their circumstances, and no one can predict what, if anything, might set them off. But in the politics of the eastern...

...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...

...Peter E. Paraschos With Israel and Cyprus recently confirming massive offshore gas reserves in the Levant Basin, the eastern Mediterranean Sea region is emerging as a significant new source of natural gas. The major economic and geopolitical implications explored in this essay include...

...Andreas D. Mavroyiannis This essay explains how Cyprus is positioned to play a constructive and stabilizing role in the eastern Mediterranean and how valuable this role can be for the foreign and security policy of the European Union. Offshore hydrocarbon discoveries in Cyprus’s exclusive economic...

..., the salience of nationalism, the current return to a more active participation in the eastern Mediterranean, and the extraordinary resilience of the Hellenes complete an explanatory framework for Greek diplomacy with specific historic antecedents. Aristotle Tziampiris is associate professor...

...Michael B. Bishku Cyprus and Malta are small Mediterranean states located on the periphery of Europe that have had unusual political affiliations following independence from Great Britain in 1960 and 1964, respectively. Historically and culturally they have had Middle Eastern connections. Cyprus...

... in the increasingly relevant and complex eastern Mediterranean, Costas Melakop- ides’s Russia-­Cyprus Relations: A Pragmatic Idealist Perspective, deals with a subject that has been overlooked in contemporary geopolitical literature. Through a chronologi- cal examination of the relationship between Russia...

... (EEZs) between 2008 and 2011, as well as the 2015 discovery of Egypt’s Zohr gas field, intro- duced a relatively new factor of national power to the tumultuous balance of the eastern Mediterranean at a time of regional volatility unprecedented since the Cold War.1 Since then, many academics...

... by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2014 The Modern Geopolitics of the Cyprus Question John Sitilides Amid the heightened tensions in the eastern Mediterranean — rooted in Syrian civil war, the Egyptian military’s overthrow of the Muslim Brother- hood regime, and the pervasive lawlessness along...

... of the eastern Mediterranean had been going on for more than two decades by the time of the battles in 1077 BC. Of course, in both instances the processes related to decline were much longer and more complicated, and the years provided for convenient reference unhelpfully shroud that fact. In his book...

... other things, serve as a precedent for peaceful coexistence of different ethnic and religious groups within one state, while at the same time it could promote stability, security, and cooperation in the vital area of the eastern Mediterranean and beyond. On the other hand, an unworkable...

... gas in the eastern Mediterranean gives the decades-­old stalemate between Turkey and Cyprus an opportunity cost price tag — it provides dollars-­and-­ cents reasons for easing the estrangement or bringing it to an end. Many Ross Wilson, a former US ambassador to Turkey (2005 – 8...

...Constantine A. Pagedas Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 From the Editor As fighting continues in the eastern part of Ukraine following Russia’s annexation of Crimea; as violence between Israel and Gaza has reached new heights; as the self-­declared Islamic State...