...Dominique Maillard Dominique Maillard is vice dean in charge of international relations at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. Grigoriadis Ioannis N. : Trials of Europeanization: Turkish Political Culture and the European Union . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 . 424...

...Vesna Pusić In this essay, Croatia’s minister of foreign and European affairs outlines Croatia’s foreign policy directions as a member of the European Union. Mutual benefits to the EU and Croatia of the latter’s membership are outlined, with particular reference to issues in southeastern Europe...

...Aylin Unver Noi In this article, Turkey’s and the European Union’s foreign policy approaches to the Middle East and North Africa region are analyzed by focusing on “normative power” and “soft power” concepts, the historical relations among the countries of the region, and the projects developed...

...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...

... Louis Napoleon Bonaparte The European Spring of 1848 and the Arab Spring of 2011: Lessons to Be Learned? Steven Philip Kramer and Judith S. Yaphe For some in the Middle East and for those watching events unfold from Europe or the United States, the Arab Spring must have appeared...

...Michalis Attalides This essay attempts to assess the consequences of the so-called Helsinki Strategy since its creation at the Helsinki European Council of December 1999. It analyzes the strategy’s interrelations with other processes involved in developments related to the Cyprus problem. Despite...

...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...

...Barbara Franz Thousands of young Europeans have joined the jihad. This essay looks at the reasons why the holy war is so popular among this cohort. While failed integration policies and widespread online media recruitment remain crucial for understanding this popularity, these explanations alone...

... countries used membership in the Non-Aligned Movement and later their connections with the European Union to gain leverage in foreign relations with more powerful states, especially in matters involving the Mediterranean region. During the Cold War and its aftermath, their ties with Middle Eastern neighbors...

...Valentina Rita Scotti After the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, and thanks to the better definition of the actors involved in external relations it provided, the European Parliament (EP) has acquired a greater role in European Union's (EU's) foreign policy and increased its...

... sufficiently explored. This essay helps fill this gap by assessing the parliamentary diplomacy activities performed by PAM vis-à-vis the Arab Spring countries between 2011 and 2016. A comparative perspective is adopted, using the literature on the European Parliament (EP) as the point of reference...

...Hasan Kösebalaban So far the prospect of Turkey.s accession to the EU has been studied with exclusive reference to Turkey.s progress in meeting the Copenhagen criteria for membership. However, as the recent electoral success of anti.Turkish European political parties and politicians suggests...

... the European Union Emrullah Uslu The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is the largest Kurdish opposition group in Turkey, serving as an umbrella for a myriad of organizations. The PKK includes the following basic components: 1.  Organizations •  an armed militia group...

...Justine M. Williams Joseph S. Joseph, ed.: Turkey and the European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 270 pages. ISBN 0-230-00549-5. $74.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Reviews Tim Weiner: Legacy...

... and Sinai, was and is also a European religion. Raymond C. Ewing is managing editor of Mediterranean Quarterly. As a Foreign Service officer with the US Department of State for thirty-six years, he held such assignments as ambassador to Cyprus and Ghana and economic officer in Rome...

...Mi Yung Yoon This essay examines how European colonialism continues to underlie most territorial disputes in Africa. How these disputes have been resolved or are likely to be resolved is described, based on the following four long drawn-out disputes: the Nigeria–Cameroon dispute over the Bakassi...

...Laman Tasch The absence of a universally accepted definition of minority and standardized mechanisms for minority protection presents challenges during the European Union (EU) accession process. The differences between definitions used by European policy makers and those used in candidate countries...

...Christopher Hemmer The increasing resources, albeit largely financial, that the European Union has committed to the Israeli-Palestinian relationship has led to increasing calls for the EU to take a greater political role in the peace process. In this essay the potential role of the EU...

... of Euro- pean economies; economic and ecological change in Ottoman power 1550 – 1850 (the complex subject of increasing European competition impressively analyzed by the late Faruk Tabak of Georgetown University, to whom this book is dedicated); maps and wars in the sixteenth century; architecture...

...Prodromos Yannas Athens: I. Sideris, 2007. 607 pages. ISBN 978-960-08-0409-6. €30.14. Copyright 2010 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Prodromos Yannas is professor of international and European relations and chair of the Department of Public Relations and Communication...