... of Integra Foundation, a Maltese nongovernmental organization working in development. Blessed Is He Who Considers the Human Rights Paradigm: Maltese Aid between Charity and Human Rights and between Catholicism and Secularism Isabelle Calleja-­Ragonesi, Anna Khakee, and Maria Pisani...

... in the Caucasus, the chaos and poverty that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the Kremlin’s human rights violations in Chechnya in many ways contributed to the rise of terrorism and Muslim extremism in Russia. In addition, the Kremlin uses terrorism as an excuse for an increased crackdown on civil...

...Yossef Ben-Meir This essay provides programmatic and administrative recommendations for the effective building of civil, governmental, and private capabilities to help implement human development driven by local communities in Morocco in light of the Arab Spring. The essay relates a human...

.... Kabasakal Arat, ed. Human Rights in Turkey. Philadelphia: Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 349 pages. ISBN 978-08122-4000-9/ ISBN-10: 0-8122-4000-6. $69.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Pranger. Human rights, in the sense of an itemized list of individual liberties protected by legal safeguards...

...Donald M. Payne The author, a US representative (Dem., N.J.), outlines the obstacles to Turkey's path to membership in the European Union. They are of Turkey's creation, centered around human rights and freedoms of ethnic and religious minorities. Copyright 2010 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc...

... on research conducted under a NATO fellowship. MQ 13.3-09 Dagi 7/25/02 2:52 PM Page 119 Human Rights and International Security: The Challenge for NATO in the Mediterranean Ihsan D. Dagi The relevance...

... Cascading Human Consequences of NATO’s War in the Balkans Joan McQueeney Mitric In the period since June 1999, when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization declared victory in its high-tech bombing war against...

... Studies, Bologna Center, from 2003 to 2006. Abulafia David : The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . 816 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-532334-4 . $34.95 (hardcover) . Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012...

...: Common Courage Press, 2006). Humanity’s Ecological Footprint Evaggelos G. Vallianatos Life thrives primarily on one-quarter of the earth, about 11.4 billion hec­tares of land and water. The oc­eans take up 2.0 billion hec­tares of that fertile quarter...

...Andrew Cooke-Welling This essay considers whether genocide is a neglected area of criminological inquiry. After a brief history of its evolution and definition, genocide is considered alongside other crimes against international law, including international human rights law (specifically, war...

...Van Coufoudakis In this essay a largely forgotten human rights issue involving the fate of the Greek-in-origin population that inhabited the Turkish islands of Imbros and Tenedos is examined. Exempted from the Greek-Turkish population-exchange agreements concluded following the end of World War I...

... for US policy and its ideals of self-determination and human rights? Will the liberals triumph, or will the Egyptian people face a hard-line Islamic future? This article attempts to answer these questions. Richard T. Sale is a former intelligence correspondent for UPI and the Middle East Times...

... in various countries by analyzing differences in their respective values on a corruption perceptions index, the variables used here include additional data such as gross national income per person in purchasing power parities, a political rights index, a civil liberties index, and a nonincome human...

...Nadine Mourad Sika This essay examines the structural economic reform measures undertaken in the Arab world in the past two decades. Developmental projects in the region have attained growth in gross domestic product, higher levels of human capital, and stable governments. These, however, have been...

... literature, the essay utilizes nine cultural dimensions of corruption: uncertainty avoidance, future orientation, institutional/societal collectivism, individual/in-group collectivism, human orientation, performance orientation, power distance, assertiveness, and gender egalitarianism. Constantine P...

... of American lectures on human rights have all suffered. Stephen Blank is senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC. Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Russia Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh Caucasus US Policy, Azerbaijan, and the Nagorno...

...J. Ndumbe Anyu; J.-P. Afam Ifedi Africa has a long and disturbing history with outside powers exploiting the continent for its natural and human resources in furtherance of their own economic and developmental objectives. In this essay, China's main objectives and the prospects and implications...

... a cauldron of chaos and human suffering. Rival, mostly Islamist militias vie for power in a multisided civil war. There is a vast flow of desperate refugees trying to get across the Mediterranean to Europe, many of whom perish in the attempt. Libya is a case study in how good intentions are not enough...

... growth with equitable distribution, respecting democratic values and fundamental rights, and forging cooperative relations at the regional and international levels. Failure begins to manifest itself when a state cannot manage confl icts to minimize violence, ensure physical secu- rity, protect human...

... Quarterly: Winter 2004 weapons and weapons of mass destruction. All three of its “baskets” (poli- tics and security, economics and finance, and the human dimension) have suffered from these problems. The post–11 September, U.S.-sponsored coun- terterrorism campaign in the Arab world and the crisis...