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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (1): 106–110.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Christina Lizzi Christina Lizzi is a policy analyst at the national nonprofit Food and Water Watch and former editorial assistant for Mediterranean Quarterly . Kousis Maria Selwyn Tom Clark David , Eds.: Contested Mediterranean Spaces: Ethnographic Essays in Honour...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2007) 18 (4): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., the issue now is less institutional than cultural. By problematizing European cultural minimalism as the main informant of anti.Turkish opposition, this essay turns the issue of Turkish membership upside down. While in Turkey religiosity does not appear to be a decisive factor in shaping perceptions...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 5–18.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Peo Hansen; Stefan Jonsson In response to a widespread idea of the European Union as a “peace project,” an idea disseminated especially after the EU received the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, this essay retrieves some of the historical causes of the foundation of the European Economic Community (EEC...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (2): 21–41.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Anthony N. Celso This essay studies the rise, decline, and rebirth of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and its transformation into the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). It first examines AQI’s distinctive vision and its defiance of al Qaeda central. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s anti-Shiite jihadist...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (4): 69–82.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Andrew Cooke-Welling This essay considers whether genocide is a neglected area of criminological inquiry. After a brief history of its evolution and definition, genocide is considered alongside other crimes against international law, including international human rights law (specifically, war...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 19–42.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Martin N. Murphy This essay describes the piracy that took place in the Mediterranean from the time of ancient Greece to Barbary. It explains the corso , the sea war between nonstate but state-endorsed Christian and Muslim parties, with reference to the Knights of Malta and, more extensively...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (3): 52–73.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the Greek state is forced to undergo holistic austerity. This essay supports the view that Greece is a failing state: it suffers a systemic ailment and declines rapidly but has not yet reached its bottom. It can reemerge as a healthy state, but only if a “grand strategy” is applied. This essay scrutinizes...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (4): 13–36.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Luisa Gandolfo Discourses on the Arab revolutions have, to date, focused on regime change and its implications for future democratization in the region. This essay explores the impetus behind the religiopolitical tensions in Tunisia and posits that to grasp the events unfolding since 2010...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (3): 68–92.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Lukáš Tichý This essay focuses on the global terrorist and militant group the Islamic State (IS), specifically on its use of terrorism targeting the energy sector as a strategic political instrument in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2014–16. The essay has two main thrusts. First...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2012) 23 (3): 98–114.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., or a combination of these. Utilizing survey data, this essay attempts to identify the key factors explaining the entrepreneurial initiatives of immigrants in Greece. It reviews the literature of immigrant entrepreneurship and gives an overview of immigration and the profile of immigrants in the country. The essay...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (3): 20–34.
Published: 01 September 2013
...James Rodgers Drawing on the author's time as the BBC's correspondent in Gaza from 2002 to 2004, this essay offers a way of understanding more fully the situation in Gaza in 2013, after the recent elections in the United States and Israel and following the Arab uprisings. The core argument...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (3): 102–128.
Published: 01 September 2013
... increased internationalization of their economies? Liberal economic theory suggests that pressures caused by the internationalization of an economy widely affect preferences, institutions, and policies. This essay examines whether smallholder coffee farmers have wanted or been able to benefit from free...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 43–67.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Nadine Mourad Sika This essay examines the structural economic reform measures undertaken in the Arab world in the past two decades. Developmental projects in the region have attained growth in gross domestic product, higher levels of human capital, and stable governments. These, however, have been...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (2): 48–60.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Jamie Coomarasamy The essay summarizes a recent reporting trip by the author to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for the BBC, during which he examined the reasons for and observed the practical impact of China’s growing influence in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. The author provides...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (2): 105–130.
Published: 01 June 2014
... that has deprived the country of a viable and sound economic foundation. This essay seeks to fill the void by concentrating of the cultural roots of corruption and the sources and factors that generate, nurture, and maintain high levels of corruption in the Greek setting. Borrowing from anthropological...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (3): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Isabelle Calleja-Ragonesi; Anna Khakee; Maria Pisani Malta became a donor country with European Union membership in 2004. Maltese organizations (most prominently—but not solely—those linked to the Catholic Church) had, however, been active in development overseas long before that date. This essay...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 83–106.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Burak Erdenir This essay analyzes the change in value orientations of Turkish society in recent decades with reference to the Europeanization process the country has been going through, particularly that embodied in the European Union accession process. As the Europeanization of Turkish political...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (1): 26–39.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Pablo Páreja-Alcaraz The past two decades have witnessed a significant intensification of the bilateral relations between Spain and China that, in spite of the economic and political significance for the former, has received little scholarly attention. This essay explores the evolution...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Marina Skordeli Since about 2005 relations between Greece and China have gained unprecedented momentum. At first glance, the timing and the reasons behind such a boost in bilateral relations between countries so distant and unequal in size are not entirely obvious. This essay examines how...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (3): 67–93.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Yossef Ben-Meir This essay provides programmatic and administrative recommendations for the effective building of civil, governmental, and private capabilities to help implement human development driven by local communities in Morocco in light of the Arab Spring. The essay relates a human...