... 10.1215/10474552-2008-029 126  Mediterranean Quarterly: Fall 2008 Nicholas J. Cull: The Cold War and the US Information Agency. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 533 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-81997-8. $125.00. Reviewed by Walter R. Roberts. Nicholas Cull, a British scholar who now teaches...

...Walter R. Roberts Wilson P. Dizard Jr.: Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the US Information Agency . Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Renner, 2004. 255 pages. ISBN 1-58826-288-X. $49.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Walter R. Roberts served most of his government career...

...Constantine P. Danopoulos; Boris Znidaric Constantine P. Danopoulos is professor of political science at San Jose State University. Boris Znidaric is lecturer on security and insurance at the University of Maribov, Slovenia. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Informal Economy, Tax...

...Philip Giraldi Despite more than thirty years of trying to collect significant information, the United States intelligence community is not well informed on many important questions relating to Iran. Decision-making by the Iranian government as well as its political alignments, capabilities...

...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...

... offers the first systematic, empirically grounded account of Maltese governmental and nongovernmental aid, based on official and unofficial statistical information on official development assistance levels and distribution; a database compiled by the authors covering nongovernmental Maltese development...

..., the issue now is less institutional than cultural. By problematizing European cultural minimalism as the main informant of anti.Turkish opposition, this essay turns the issue of Turkish membership upside down. While in Turkey religiosity does not appear to be a decisive factor in shaping perceptions...

...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...

... and concentric circles, in which the Olive Group is a “soft” landing place for informal dialogue among the group members and other non-EU states on the Mediterranean littoral. Copyright 2010 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Michael Frendo was Malta's minister of foreign affairs from 2004 to 2008...

... an ever-present tension within media and politics in Turkey. Turkish journalists tend to define themselves as liberals who historically assigned themselves the mission to inform the public and to raise public awareness on political issues independent of ruling governments. In contrast, successive Turkish...

... Tayyip Erdogan and illustrates the influence of political institutions. This situation has given rise to a “dual presidentialization,” meaning a situation that has arisen from institutional changes and certain informal factors. The hypothesis is that this dual presidentialization has accelerated Turkey's...

... for ten years. His government career included service as associate director of the US Information Agency and appointment by former presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton to the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Mediterranean Quarterly 18:4  DOI 10.1215/10474552-2007-025...

... surrounded himself with like-minded subordinates. He did not, for example, take aggressive action when it was learned that his prede- cessor as director of central intelligence (DCI), John Deutch, had mishandled extremely sensitive information, and instead permitted Deutch to retain his security...

... not consistently function in a way suggesting the shared values, outlook, and cooperation nor- mally associated with communities of whatever sort. It is characterized by many rivalries, and there are frequent failures to share critical information. According to accepted wisdom, at the most general level...

... Information Agency and appointment by Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton to the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. The Evolution of Diplomacy Walter R. Roberts The conduct of diplomacy has changed significantly over the past sixty years...

..., and exchanges funded both privately and publicly. Nye observes that globalization is a fact, so we might as well try to exploit its advantages, while realizing that the technological revolution has also rendered us more vulnerable. The Internet has reduced the costs of searching for information, increased...

... cooperation on any of them. DOI 10.1215/10474552-2008-029 126  Mediterranean Quarterly: Fall 2008 Nicholas J. Cull: The Cold War and the US Information Agency. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 533 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-81997-8. $125.00. Reviewed by Walter R. Roberts. Nicholas Cull...

... considerations; 3. development and coordination of federal programs to safeguard Rus- sian Federation (RF) security; 4. analysis and processing of information concerning the preservation of RF security; 5. informing of the SC secretary (by staff) about implementation of decisions; 6...

.... The Federal Tax Police Service and FAPSI were to be dismantled. Responsi- bilities of FAPSI, which included technical intelligence, counterintelligence, and security of regional telecommunications and information systems, were distributed between the FSB and the Defense Ministry. However, by April 2003...

... to share Iran-related intelligence information. American unilateral intelligence activities on the ground are underway to determine and confirm targeting sites in Iran. Despite all these efforts, there remains a dearth of specific targeting information on buried and hardened sites outside the main...