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...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...

...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...

...Katerina Gardikas Karakatsanis Neovi M. Swarts Jonathan : American Foreign Policy towards the Colonels’ Greece: Uncertain Allies and the 1967 Coup d’État . New York : Palgrave , 2018 . 232 pages. ISBN 978-1-137-52317-4 . $85 (hardcover). © 2018 by Mediterranean Affairs...

...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...

...Constantine P. Danopoulos Vassilis K. Fouskas: Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East . London: Pluto, 2003. 177 pages. ISBN 0-7453-2030-9. $24.95. Constantine P. Danopoulos is an associate editor of Mediterranean Quarterly and professor...

...Akis Kalaitzidis Nikolaos Zahariadis: Essence of Political Manipulation: Emotion, Institutions and Greek Foreign Policy . New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 231 pages. ISBN 0-8204-7903-9. $66.99. Reviewed by Akis Kalaitzidis. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Akis Kalaitzidis is assistant...

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

...Ivan Eland Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 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 . 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...

...George A. Papandreou Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 George A. Papandreou is minister for foreign affairs of Greece. This article is based on Foreign Minister Papandreou's address during the general debate of the fifty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, 14 September...