...Constantine P. Danopoulos Copyright 2016 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2016 Papaconstantinou George : Game Over: The Inside Story of the Greek Crisis . Athens : Papadopoulos Publishing , 2016 . 432 pages . ISBN 978-960-569-600-9 . $19.95 (paperback). Constantine P...

...George Floridis George Floridis is former minister of public order of Greece and member of parliament. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Security for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games George Floridis More and more often, we become painfully aware that our...

...George V. Voulgarakis 2005 George V. Voulgarakis is minister of public order of Greece. Securing the Olympic Games: A Model of International Cooperation to Confront New Threats George V. Voulgarakis In truly...

...Petros Vamvakas The geopolitical game of the twenty-first century will be multilateral and multidimensional, placing great emphasis on political and commercial interests such as resources, markets, ecology, and finance than on military interests. This essay argues that the eastern Mediterranean...

... relationship with both sides in the 1950s were later replaced by a zero-sum game policy in which Israel was totally excluded. Since the 1980s Beijing has resurrected its balanced Middle East policy. While still sticking to nonintervention in regional conflicts, the Chinese implicitly offer their own experience...

... imbalance. There is a need for a better understanding of the possibilities and challenges for establishing new game rules and a more democratic redefinition of civil—military equation in Turkey, where a politically “autonomous” and “religiously secular” military bloc is pitted against a popularly elected...

..., the modern Olym- pic Games have received a fair amount of media and scholarly attention. Sociologists, historians, and other sports enthusiasts have produced numerous works detailing and analyzing the nature and importance of the ancient games, their evolution, the political calculations surrounding...

..., the modern Olym- pic Games have received a fair amount of media and scholarly attention. Sociologists, historians, and other sports enthusiasts have produced numerous works detailing and analyzing the nature and importance of the ancient games, their evolution, the political calculations surrounding...

..., the modern Olym- pic Games have received a fair amount of media and scholarly attention. Sociologists, historians, and other sports enthusiasts have produced numerous works detailing and analyzing the nature and importance of the ancient games, their evolution, the political calculations surrounding...

... players in the game of world politics and transnational issues are important to all tiers of the international agenda, soft power becomes a much more benign and effective means to an end. On any given day in the international political system, the odds are that you will get more from attraction...

.... The Greek government has worked out and elaborated a cooperation memoran- dum text with the U.S. Department of Justice. With the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece on the horizon, the Ministry of Public Order has made specific security arrangements. An Olympic Games...

... monopoly game. When it is won, a hollowness in the stomach and an emptiness in the soul follows. The business will finish. There will be no more players to play. The game, which was, after all, the source of the plea- sure, will soon be over, and this leaves the player with a feeling of lonely tri- umph...

... event facing Greece is the staging of the Olympic Games in 2004. Two years before the commencement of the games, prepara- tions are well advanced, a fact confirmed by the International Olympic Com- mittee. For the organization of the Olympics, in addition to the state machin- ery, the whole of Greek...

... for an appropriate twenty-­first-century, Greek expression of psychiatric care amidst a diverse population. In part 1, Davis uses the framework of truth games to examine power in therapeutic settings. “Clinical diagnosis,” she writes, “is the key to the problematic status of truth in contemporary...

..., and determination that were recently high- lighted by the Athens Olympic and Paralympic Games. In Athens, athletes of the world dedicated themselves to a noble cause and showed us that com- petition does not necessarily mean tension, friction, crisis, or confl ict. On the contrary, they proved...

...- atively affected America’s overall global power and influence. Reviews  125 Nye envisions global power in the form of “a complex three-­dimensional chess game.” The top level of that game represents military power. The United States unques...

... to say that the referendum vote would have been for anything but independence,22 unless Morocco had somehow been allowed to recover its “losses” in the appeals process. One can safely say that the UN abandoned the settlement plan not because it generated a zero-sum game but because it could have...

.... In this essay I suggest that the negotiating parties address the issues in the context of a zero-sum game. Accordingly, the proposition is, if you do not win, you lose, and losing is so complete that it is to be avoided at all costs. To complicate matters...

.... It was the rational decision to make, after an objective consideration of all issues hanging in the balance. One should not forget that, at the time, there existed conflicting interests and power games at play within the EU. In order to overcome these and to tip the balance in favor of accepting Cyprus...

... a commitment to our world and more specif- ically to our region, and I would like to outline this commitment. The Millennium Assembly and the Olympic Games of September 2000 symbolize the beginning of an era for my country. After the 2000 General...