...Michael B. Bishku Cyprus and Malta are small Mediterranean states located on the periphery of Europe that have had unusual political affiliations following independence from Great Britain in 1960 and 1964, respectively. Historically and culturally they have had Middle Eastern connections. Cyprus...

...Derek Lutterbeck Located at the southernmost tip of Europe, just off the coast of Africa, Malta has during recent years increasingly come into the international spotlight as a frontline state for irregular migration from Africa toward the European Union. Even though, in absolute terms, the number...

...Daniel Fiott This essay focuses on the degree to which Maltese foreign policy has become Europeanized because of its membership in the European Union. The author focuses on three trends resulting from the Europeanization process: first, the ways in which Malta's national policies and political...

...Martin N. Murphy This essay describes the piracy that took place in the Mediterranean from the time of ancient Greece to Barbary. It explains the corso , the sea war between nonstate but state-endorsed Christian and Muslim parties, with reference to the Knights of Malta and, more extensively...

...Isabelle Calleja-Ragonesi; Anna Khakee; Maria Pisani Malta became a donor country with European Union membership in 2004. Maltese organizations (most prominently—but not solely—those linked to the Catholic Church) had, however, been active in development overseas long before that date. This essay...

...Michael Frendo Drawing on his personal experience as Malta's foreign minister from 2004 to 2008, the author argues that the process of Mediterranean integration should be viewed as building a mosaic block by block, with each tile being important to the whole. The original idea for a Union...

...Stephen C. Calleya Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Stephen C. Calleya is deputy director and senior lecturer of international relations at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta. His newest volume, Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean Relations , is forthcoming...

..., Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Fin- land, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portu- gal, Slovakia, and Sweden On the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the distinction is more formal because there is little decentralization, indeed little demo- cratic...

... from the University of Malta, provides an interesting outline of the roots of foreign aid policy focused on the small island nation of Malta. A member of the EU situated at the nexus of Europe and Africa and divid- ing the eastern and western Mediterranean, Malta’s unique history — home to one...

... Properties The Euro-Mediterranean complex encompasses at least two international “regimes” (Western Europe and the Middle East) and three subregional groupings: Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and Malta); the Mashreq...

.... Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Roderick Pace teaches international politics and European studies at the University of Malta and is director of the European Documentation and Research Centre of the University of Malta, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Stelios Stavridis is Aragon Research...

..., Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Syria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, and Turkey. Cofelice...

... of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta. He is the author of Evaluating Euro-Mediterranean Relations and the forthcoming Security Challenges in the Euro-Med Area in the 21st Century . The Union for the Mediterranean: An Exercise in Region Building...

...Roderick Pace; Stelios Stavridis; Dimitris K. Xenakis Roderick Pace is director of the European Documentation and Research Centre at the University of Malta. Stelios Stavridis holds an Onassis Foundation Fellowship at the Hellenic Centre for European Studies in Athens and is honorary fellow...

...Stephen C. Calleya Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Stephen C. Calleya is director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta. EU-Turkish Relations: Prospects and Problems Stephen C. Calleya The decision taken by the European...

...- Pagedas: From the Editor  3 ing overall tensions between the Islamic world and the West, will be resolved anytime soon. The third essay in this issue, “The Middle Eastern Relations of Cyprus and Malta: From Independence to Nonalignment to the European Union,” by Michael B. Bishku...

...Stephen C. Calleya Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Stephen C. Calleya is deputy director of and senior lecturer in international relations at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies,University of Malta. This article was drafted with financial assistance from the Commission...

... of the city, where protest signs and graffiti serve as constant reminders of con- tinuing tensions between political factions that cannot be white washed. The next two chapters examine environmental movements in Malta and Greece. In Malta, citizen action groups have become increasingly organized...

... of the city, where protest signs and graffiti serve as constant reminders of con- tinuing tensions between political factions that cannot be white washed. The next two chapters examine environmental movements in Malta and Greece. In Malta, citizen action groups have become increasingly organized...

... of the failing Kingdom of Two Sicilies. The island of Malta, with the advantage of its main port of Valetta and its key loca- tion situated between Sicily and Africa, came under the control of the British Royal Navy in 1800 and became a cause célèbre in the breakdown of relations between Great Britain...