... remain problematic, but the end of the Global War on Terror nevertheless presents Washington with a window of opportunity to reorder its relations with the nations and peoples of the Middle East and North Africa and frees up resources for the United States to tackle other emerging strategic priorities...

... State University, Berks Campus, Reading, Pennsylvania. Carrots, Sticks, and Bombs: The End of Libya’s WMD Program Randall Newnham At the end of December 2008, the United States and Libya formally resumed diplomatic relations with the arrival...

...Constantine A. Pagedas Christodoulos K. Yiallourides and Panayotis J. Tsakonas, editors: Greece and Turkey after the End of the Cold War . New York and Athens:Aristide D. Caratzas, 2001. 498 pages. ISBN 0-89241-564-9. $30.00 paper. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Constantine...

...Charles G. Stefan Peter Kenez, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 283 pages. ISBN 052-13-1198-5 paperback. £11.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Charles G. Stefan, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer...

...Konstantinos S. Skandalis © 2018 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2018 Rizas Sotiris : The End of Middle Class Politics? Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2018 . 223 pages. ISBN 1-5275-0654-1 . £64.99 (hardcover). ...

.... Why the Islamic Revolution Ended: The Regional Politics of Sudan since 1989 Ioannis Mantzikos After Omar al-­Bashir seized power in Sudan with a military coup in June 1989, Hassan al-­Turabi was imprisoned in Kobar along with a number of prominent Sudanese...

... agreements. If 1848 proves anything, it is that the significance of great revolutionary upheavals emerges long after the barricades have been torn down. The year 1848 was not so much an end as a beginning; it is too early to tell how the Arab Spring will end. Steven Philip Kramer is professor of grand...

...Geoffrey Wright The attempt of the Georgian government to reform and restructure its military forces in the past ten years demonstrates the difficulty of conducting Western-style defense reform in postconflict states, which have not seen a formal end to armed conflict. Western-style reforms were...

...Antonis P. Skotiniotis Following the end of the bipolar world, Greece gradually realized both the benefits of forming a multidimensional foreign policy and the limits set by its participation in Western institutions. This essay examines the relations between the so-called BRICS (the association...

... ends with some conclusions about the findings and suggests future implications. Konstantinos S. Skandalis is a visiting scholar at the Claremont Graduate University, California. He has published a number of articles dealing with entrepreneurship in Greece and other Balkan countries...

... of Syria have been hard to watch. Several thousand innocent people perished between the eruption of resistance to Assad’s regime in March 2011 and the beginning of 2013, with no end in sight. There is little doubt that government forces were responsible for the majority of deaths. The prospect that Assad...

...Michael B. Bishku This essay reviews and analyzes Albania’s connections with the Middle East since the era of Enver Hoxha’s rule, when ideology was a strong factor in international relations. Since the end of the Cold War, Albania has been most interested in developing political, economic...

... zone can transform the island into a regional energy hub and an important pillar for Europe’s energy security and diversification. At the same time, these discoveries can create an additional impetus to end the long division of the island. Ambassador Andreas D. Mavroyiannis is the permanent...

...Ross Wilson Moves to resume the United Nations-led Cyprus peace talks in 2014 have given hope of an end to the island’s long-lived division. Factors that shape the prospects for progress now include the February 2013 election of a new, prosettlement Cypriot government and the discovery of offshore...

... government pledged to end austerity, reverse privatization, and reforms and to achieve at least partial debt forgiveness. A Greek departure from the eurozone was possible. A Greece adrift would leave it vulnerable to the blandishments of Russia, China, and other parties. Should such a shift occur, it would...

... promising to end the austerity era. However, from its first days in office, the new government realized that keeping this promise would be a far greater challenge than winning the election. Cancelation of the austerity measures required renegotiation of Greece's bailout loans, loans that were conditional...

...George C. Georgiou This essay traces the transfer of private ownership of economic resources from sovereign rulers to the modern nation-state, starting with mercantilism and ending with exclusive economic zones. Nation-states were initially envisaged as bodies that acted on behalf of their citizens...

... in the way Adolfo Suárez González would do in Spain four years later. The attempt stalled before it was ended by a coup organized by the regime hard-liners tacitly backed by the military as an institution. The cases compared include Spain and Turkey, which underwent similar transitions, but with very...

...Stelios Stavridis Following the end of the Cold War and the appearance of globalization and new forms of regionalization, new actors have emerged in world politics and changed the traditional practice of diplomacy. New forms of diplomacy range from economic diplomacy to paradiplomacy, cultural...

...David Binder It took twenty-seven years and the ending of the Cold War for former New York Times correspondent David Binder to obtain permission to enter Communist Albania. Once there, in 1990, the author was introduced to both suspicion and traditionally warm hospitality. He found Albania...