...George C. Georgiou This essay analyzes Cyprus's financial crisis and its potential threat to the eurozone. The focus is on the economic consequences of the terms of the bailout agreement dictated by the Troika or Eurogroup for the Cyprus economy as well as its significance for any future bailouts...

...George A. Papandreou The prime minister of Greece discusses the causes, dimensions, character, and contributing factors to the current global financial turmoil and points to lessons to be learned from the crisis in his own country. The essay underscores the potential consequences of inattention...

...Shalendra D. Sharma What began as a downturn in the US housing sector in summer 2007 mushroomed into a global financial crisis by September 2008—the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Initially, Western European governments, including the Russian government, blamed the crisis...

...Nikolaos Zahariadis Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Fouskas Vassilis K. and Dimoulas Constantine : Greece, Financialization, and the EU . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . 272 Pages. ISBN 978-1-137-273444 . $81 . Nikolaos Zahariadis...

...Stavros B. Thomadakis The scope of the present global financial crisis is comparable to that of the 1930s. Public policies responding to each have been very different, however. The large macroeconomic response of the past three years has averted a new Great Depression, but regulation...

... of unrest are largely illuminated by varying degrees of societal support for monarchical regimes, deep-seated societal cleavages, and the deficiencies of political mobilization. The variation in state responses, in turn, is mainly explained by divergent financial resources, the quality of political...

... financial institutions, and fair trade, which influence price signals and opportunity costs. Michele L. Crumley is assistant professor of political science at East Tennessee State University. Copyright 2013 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2013...

... for its ambition to strengthen and develop its regional partnerships in order to enhance security and stability there. NATO’s ambitions are likely to be hampered by competing priorities within the alliance, as the as the members are increasingly facing diverging interests and financial austerity as well...

...Spyridon N. Litsas Since 2010 Greece has been between a rock and a hard place. In particular, since May 2010 the so-called troika (European Commission, International Monetary Fund, and European Central Bank) has provided financial support to Greece through an economic adjustment program while...

...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...

.... Nevertheless, one thing is abundantly clear: the active participation of the Taliban has aided and abetted opium cultivation on a scale unmatched by anything Afghanistan has seen in the past. Papaver soniferum , or poppy, is the lifeblood of the Taliban insurgency. Once the Taliban's financial arteries linked...

... political, demographic, and territorial problems, paying Greece back for its financial generosity with a constant barrage of anti-Hellenic propaganda, provocations in the media and on the Internet, and distortions of history. It also struggles to establish kinship between ancient Macedonians and the FYROM...

...Petros Vamvakas The global financial crisis of 2009–2010 has further underscored the demise of social democracy as a legitimate political alternative, for example, due to an absence of a clearly articulated alternative approach to the crisis offered by Social Democratic parties, even though...

.... China's influence in the global financial system constitutes the core of the author's analysis. The author also describes the challenges faced by the US from China as a rising competitor for superpower status. Copyright 2011 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2011 Richard S. Williamson is a senior...

..., its dimensions and implications are. Despite the advent of “disaster capitalism“ as a new model of “development,”1 the financial cri- sis that started in the United States morphed into a global menace that has impacted small economies the hardest. It exposed weak nations to the whims of a class...

... of Greece’s biggest companies are either state run or state managed.3 Since the socialists’ rise to power for the first time in Greece’s postwar history, successive governments accused their predecessors of cooking the books to present a rosy financial picture and gather votes. Each government...

... philosophical reminders to repatriate the ideals of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and defend them against a rising class of amoral financiers and assorted crooks. During the past four decades, this ruthless and rootless class of financial manipulators has colo- nized the centers of American power...

..., through coop- eration on important sectors, with emphasis given on the political and eco- nomic areas. The creation of the FTZ, coupled with the necessary financial assistance, was an economic event aimed at eliminating the so-called pros- perity gap, which exists nowadays between the two partners...

... Gregory XII in 1415. Meanwhile, Cyprus was forced to accept a European Union bailout, which damaged its reputation as an offshore banking and financial tax haven for wealthy, mostly Russian, businessmen. These three key events — and certainly all of the essays pre- sented in this issue...

... K. Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas: Greece, Financialization, and the EU. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 272 Pages. ISBN 978-­1-­137-­273444. $81. Reviewed by Nikolaos Zahariadis. Although the Greek sovereign debt crisis has received considerable attention, it has nevertheless yielded...