...George Bistis This essay traces the history of the Far Right in Greece, which is on the rise again almost four decades after the collapse of the military junta that ruled the Mediterranean country from 1967 to 1974. The author examines how the Golden Dawn party capitalized on Greek citizens...

...Sotiris G. Vandoros This essay systematically explores the role the immigration issue played in the electoral and overall political power structure of right-wing extremism in Greece as expressed by Golden Dawn. It employs a political-opportunity structure along with a discursive-opportunity...

...Tiago A. Ferreira Lopes In 1993, Piotr Sztompka stated that some post-Soviet societies were doomed to suffer from “civilizational incompetence.” The key argument was that the vision of a golden past acts as a deterrence mechanism against the future. Modernization is resisted not because of its...

... government and the troika, the way the shadow of war reparations hung over the shaky German Weimar Republic before 1933. Private citizens have the insecure feeling that they are powerless to affect their fate, and Golden Dawn, an extreme right-­wing parliamentary party with paramilitary elements, has...

... nationalist, anti-immigrant rhetoric, after his ouster from New Democracy 3. The ultraright nationalist party, Golden Dawn, which gained eighteen seats in the September 2015 elections, and several members of which have been formally charged with carrying out acts of violence and hate...

... .weforum.org/docs/GCR2011-­12/CountryProfiles/Greece.pdf. 20  Mediterranean Quarterly: September 2015 This was not then, in other words, a “normal” country, and it was even less so in 2015. On any given day, events in Greece seemed to confirm this. • A Golden Dawn deputy attacks a Muslim...

..., and journalists engaged in a thorough Kemalist appropriation of Ottoman history. Powerful sultans from the empire’s Golden Age such as Fatih Mehmet II were transformed into secular, pro-­Western revolutionaries while Turks of all political persuasions celebrated the Ottomans for their military might...

... instinct and one particularly prominent among the Tsintsars. He also records the fact that the formerly powerful caste of Tsintsars was “fi nally destroyed and dispossessed” by the Yugoslav Communist regime.9 He picked up this theme of acquisitiveness again in the Golden Fleece (Zlatno Runo, published...

...-­year career, has written a compelling essay on the rise of the extreme Far Right in Greece, focusing specifically on the political party Golden Dawn. In the wake of Greece’s economic meltdown and the deterioration of PASOK’s and New Democracy’s nearly forty-year grip on Greek politics, Bistis...

... organizations lobbied the Kostas Mitsotakis government to organize the evacuation of the Abkhazian Greeks who had been trapped in the breakaway republic.36 Protests and petitions were organized in Ath- ens and Thessaloniki. In August 1993, finally, the Hellenic Navy carried out Operation Golden Fleece...

... which you borrow them. Together with the largest tea house in the world (a magnificent, multi­colored structure, with three golden domes and sweeping staircases but with a con- struction timetable that has already run over schedule) and a free-­standing flagpole that has just overtaken...

... and dramatic, often reordering the ethnic composition of the “Golden State.” The impact of immigration in California has been far more compelling than else- where. Whereas foreign-born residents account for 12 percent of the nation’s population, they represent more than 28 percent of California’s population...

... also returned to the private lending market, where through sales of government bonds it generated capital to fully fund unex- pected 2014 financing gaps.17 15. George Bistis, “Golden Dawn or Democratic Sunset: The Rise of the Far Right in Greece,” Mediterranean Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2013): 35...

..., is redeveloping downtown Beirut in a way that essentially wipes out fifty years of architectural reminders of the civil war and creates an image of the city as it was in the “golden age” of the 1950s and 1960s. Haugbolle contrasts this with the lived experience of residents in the neighbor- hoods...

..., is redeveloping downtown Beirut in a way that essentially wipes out fifty years of architectural reminders of the civil war and creates an image of the city as it was in the “golden age” of the 1950s and 1960s. Haugbolle contrasts this with the lived experience of residents in the neighbor- hoods...

.... Some aspects of the Ottoman past — its backwardness, obscurantism, decadence, weakness, subservience to the West, and collabo- ration with the enemy following its defeat in the First World War — were repu- diated. Other aspects — martial prowess of the Ottoman golden age, military victories...

... in the mid- 1990s to reach some of their shared goals. These agreements led to a “golden age” in bilateral relations. However, the security- focused nature of bilateral ties kept it limited to a mostly military- to- military relationship. Even these limited relations started to evolve as a result...

.... While this might not be surprising, it is remarkable, because each and every group of pundits had different predictions, and they all were wrong. Who expected that French president Jacques Chirac would, out of the blue, undermine U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and give the hawks a golden...

... administration missed a golden opportunity to offer lead- Davis: Implications of Preventive Wars for Collective Security 117 ership to a fractured world during a pivotal moment in international rela- tions: to act as the leading voice calling for the adjustment of international law to meet...

... of Corinth.60 Briggs immediately jumped at the chance to shoot with the renowned “Golden Greek.” As far as hunting was concerned, Greece provided few opportunities for such gentlemanly pursuits. Spetsopoula, however, stocked annually with twelve thousand redleg partridges imported from...