...David Binder Neni Panourgia: Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State . New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. 302 pages. ISBN 978-0-8232-2967-3. $24.30 (hbk). Copyright 2011 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2011 David Binder is a Balkans specialist, a former...

...Kenneth Katzman Maziar Behrooz: Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran . London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. 368 pages. ISBN 964-311-263-2.$12. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Kenneth Katzman is a foreign policy analyst at the Congressional Research Service. MQ 13.4-09...

...Akis Kalaitzidis © 2018 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2018 Sotirelis George : Which Left: Detecting the Progressive Identity in Europe in the Midst of a Crisis (Ποια Αριστερα; Aνιχνευοντας την Προοδευτικη Tαυτοτητα στην Ευρωπη της Κρισης) . Athens : Polis , 2017 . 166 pages. ISBN...

...George Bistis The year 2015 started with a great promise for austerity-harmed people in Greece, but within a few months the promise began to fade as reality sunk in. It was a year that the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) achieved a historic electoral triumph in Greece. SYRIZA came to power...

... independence—that Kosovo was the last open question left over from the breakup of Yugoslavia—is likely to prove wrong. Thus, given the breakdown in the international and regional consensus on the contours of a legitimate Balkan political and security order, the instability of Kosovo and other states...

... and establish itself as a pivotal actor in one election only to fall below the minimum required vote 1. The terms Left and Right are used in this essay to reflect the conventional classifications of the parties. In Turkish politics, Left often refers to political positions that advocate secularist...

... intellectuals, the former Yugoslavia did not qualify as a socialist state because it had allowed too much penetration by private corporations and the International Monetary Fund. But U.S. policy makers are notorious for not seeing the world the way purist left-wing...

... by the postcommunist Partito Democratico della Sinistra (Democratic Party of the Left), the hard-line Rifondazione Communista (Communist Refoundation), and a scattering of remnants of the dissolved Christian Democrats. Berlusconi’s government was short lived. After only seven...

...) of Northern Italy. On the losing side was another loose coalition, led by the postcommunist Partito Democratico della Sinistra (Democratic Party of the Left), the hard-line Rifondazione Communista (Communist Refoundation), and a scattering of remnants of the dissolved...

... was another loose coalition, led by the postcommunist Partito Democratico della Sinistra (Democratic Party of the Left), the hard-line Rifondazione Communista (Communist Refoundation), and a scattering of remnants of the dissolved Christian Democrats. Berlusconi’s...

... and communist-dominated groups into a respectable military force. The rem- nants of the Right, with British assistance, reacted to consolidation of power by the Left belatedly and indecisively. In the conflict that erupted in 1943, the Left prevailed easily, maneuver...

... a successful democratic transition because the country’s political Right and Left were able to reconcile their bloody past and negotiate the so-­called Pact of Forgetting, an informal agreement that placed more importance on building a democracy than seeking traditional notions of transitional justice...

..., the British governor, Sir Hugh Foot (center), signed the documents formalizing Britain’s handover of sovereignty to the Republic of Cyprus in the House of Representatives in Nicosia. Archbishop Makarios, Cyprus’s first president (left), looks...

...; Olav Njolstad, “The Carter Administration and Italy: Keeping the Com- munists Out of Power without Interference,” Journal of Cold War Studies 4, no. 3 (2002): 56 – 94; Leopoldo Nuti, “The United States, Italy, and the Opening to the Left, 1953 – 1963,” Journal of Cold War Studies 4, no. 3 (2002...

... a better understanding of Turkey and the “Kurdish problem.” DOI 10.1215/10474552-1189683 Neni Panourgia: Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. 302 pages. ISBN 978-­0-­8232-­2967-­3. $24.30 (hbk). Reviewed by David Binder...

..., in a district of Athens called Nikaea, a blast caused a disaster that probably did not bring much grief to the residents of this traditionally left-­wing and working-­class neighborhood. The bust of Ioannis Metaxas was no longer standing on its podium after an explosion detonated by a resistance group...

... orientation. The higher the estimate of the dead, the farther left the person holding the view is likely to be. Recently, a leader of an extreme right-­ wing party decided against taking a halfway position — he asserted with the certainty of one who debunks a myth that not one person died in the siege...

... of the European Left — ­an outcome I would argue to be as profound as the collapse of the Soviet bloc. The social trans- formation of perceived affluence and the subsequent consumer culture that emerged significantly affected ideological and interest articulation structures. Social democratic political...

.... But the condition under which they left Arab countries fits quite well the definition of a refugee in international law: 48 Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2003 The essential quality of refugee [is] that he has left his country of regular residence . . . as a result of political events in that country which...

... in Egypt have covered left-­ wing activism in depth, and scholarly research on the most vibrant student organization in the 1970s, the Jamaat al-­Islamiyya (JI), has been confined to the literature on Islamic movements.2 Student activism in Turkey has received even less attention; there have been...