... as LAOS (meaning “people” in Greek), achieved a measure of success in the national parliamen- tary elections. Supporters of LAOS, a party considered by many others to be an extreme, right-­wing populist party operating on the fringes of the political spectrum, rejoiced in what they considered...

... electoral and overall political power during certain instances, such as the 2015 – 16 refugee crisis. The essay does not examine any other Far Right political groups. Occasional ref- erence is made to the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), a populist radical right party, but from 2012 onward GD has...

...-­wing Independent Greeks Party (ANEL), led by current min- ister of defense Panos Kammenos, who has publicly stated that his party opposes immigration and has espoused xenophobic rhetoric 2. The Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), founded by Georgios Karatzaf- eris, known for his...

... a valued economic partner as well. The Soviet Union did add a few more client states in the Third World, but most of them were small, poor nations (for example, Laos, Mozambique, and Yemen) that did little or nothing to augment Moscow’s strength. Indeed, one could make a credible case...

... to feel the pressure of its own communist insurgency, presumably supported from the north. (Similar developments were under way in neighboring Laos and Cambodia.) In both China and Vietnam, these local communist movements, well organized and well led, managed to capture and embody...

... family and community ties. Historians of Vlach life dwell on their endogamy—mar- riage within the tribe. One of the problems in discovering more about the history of the Vlachs is that the Aromanian language strongly resembles Romanian (although Niko- laos Xirotiris, a Greek scholar specializing...

... and Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) together with a small far-right party (LAOS) voted in favor of the 82  Mediterranean Quarterly: Spring 2010 Tziampiris: Greek Foreign Policy and Russia  83 was precisely during Russia’s...

.../oikonomia/news/story/561208/varoyfakis-­eixa-­entoli-­apo -­ton-­lao-­na-­po-­oti-­to-­mnimonio-­teleiose. 24. Manolis Glezos, “Glezos Denounces Greek Loan Agreement as ‘Illusion,’ ” Roaemag.org, 22 February 2015, Roarmag.org/2015/02/glezos-­greek-­bailout-­illusion...

... to meet the growing appetite of its population; it has acquired agricultural land in many countries, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Russia, and Zimbabwe. India has made similar 8. FAO, Country Profile: Jordan, 2012 (Rome: FAO, 2012); Mohamed Khraishy, Jordan Grain and Feed Annual, Report...

...,” in Greece’s Horizons: Reflecting on the Country’s Assets and Capabilities, ed. Pantelis Sklias and Niko- laos Tzifakis (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2013), 33 – 35; Efraim Inbar, “The New Strategic Equation in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Middle East Security and Policy Studies 109 (September 2014): 22. 38...