...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...

..., multilateralism, and outreach based on political values, culture, and history. While the formation and implementation of the Greek foreign policy has remained in the hands of state officials and agencies, nonstate actors have had an important contributing role. The extent of Greek Black Sea policy's success...

...Aristotle Tziampiris This essay presents the major factors that make up the framework in which Greek foreign policy operates and explores whether they have any connections to past centuries, especially to Antiquity. They include Greece’s consequential geographical location between East and West...

...Erkan Ertosun This essay seeks to explain the source and magnitude of change in Turkish foreign policy during Turgut Ozal's premiership. In doing so, it employs theoretical studies on foreign policy change and the role of the leader in such processes. The essay argues that Prime Minister Ozal...

...Maria Gianniou In the literature dealing with parliamentary diplomacy, the role that the European Parliament (EP) can play in the formation and conduct of European Union (EU) foreign policy is intensively studied. Yet analyses thus far have not dealt with how the EP can urge the EU and its member...

...Robert J. Pranger Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant with extensive experience in national security affairs. He was formerly associate/managing editor of Mediterranean Quarterly . Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 American Foreign Policy after Iraq...

...Ivan Eland Ivan Eland is senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the books The Empire Has No Clothes: US Foreign Policy Exposed and Putting “Defense” Back into US Defense Policy . Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Back to the Future...

...Robert J. Pranger A new American president will now confront the extraordinary complexity of his country's foreign policy. Presidents, even without foreign affairs backgrounds, have already formed ideas about basic directions that the nation's international policies should take...

...Melissa McConnell Foreign policy capacity is defined as dynamic, information-based adaptation by nation-states in complex, ambiguous environments that involve their domestic systems as well as external variables. On questions of Bosnia and Kosovo, Serbia's policy capacity is weakened by lack...

...Yasin Aktay The “political” has been absent from Turkish foreign policy because the main difficulties facing the country were considered almost constitutive elements of Turkish national existence, so that they are kept incurable. This essay includes a brief history of the absence of the political...

... with Russia. Upon further scrutiny, it is concluded that cultural affinities do not determine or even greatly influence contemporary Greek foreign policy. Rather, Athens' various decisions are better explained on the basis of more traditional realist concepts. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010...

...Emilian Kavalski This essay examines the domestic logic informing the creation of Bulgaria's foreign policy. It contextualizes inferences made from Bulgaria's diplomatic attempt to “play the EU” during the visit by the Bulgarian minister of foreign affairs to Central Asia in September 2007...

...Daniel Fiott This essay focuses on the degree to which Maltese foreign policy has become Europeanized because of its membership in the European Union. The author focuses on three trends resulting from the Europeanization process: first, the ways in which Malta's national policies and political...

... significant trade and foreign investment as well as reconstruction assistance from Tehran, it has been less successful in consolidating an Iranian-sponsored coalition to ensure victory in national elections. Jason E. Strakes is an analyst at the Army Reachback Research Center, Newport News, Virginia...

...Yücel Güçlü Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Yücel Güçlü is head of department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey. MQ 13.3-06 Guclu 7/25/02 2:49 PM Page 58 The Uneasy Relationship: Turkey’s Foreign Policy visvis...

... of the Elliot School of International Relations at the George Washington University. Both authors are members of the Mediterranean Quarterly editorial advisory board. Constructive Internationalism: An American Foreign Policy for the Early Twenty-First Century...

... available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Iraq in the Context of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy Nikolai Zlobin The relationship between Moscow and Baghdad, like Russia’s foreign-policy relationships throughout the Persian Gulf...

...Petros Molyviatis Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Petros Molyviatis is foreign minister of Greece. This essay is based on his address to the fifty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Greek Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century...

... Foreign Policy Discourse Norman Bowen French offi cials portray resistance to unilateral American military action in Iraq as stemming from French allegiance to collective security authorized by the United Nations Security Council on the basis of the UN Charter...