... Arabia “go nuclear.” Copyright 2011 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2011 Gawdat Bahgat is a professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, DC. A Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East: Myth or Reality...

...: Myth or a Possible Opportunity? Joseph J. Sisco Crises provide both challenges and opportunities. Can the horrendous ter- rorist attacks that took the lives of people from eighty countries and has brought about an antiterrorist global coalition provide new strategic...

..., Byzantium and the Myths of Venice . Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection , 2010 . 296 pages. $60 . ISBN 978-0884023609 (hardcover) . Copyright 2011 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2011 Reviews Henry Maguire and Robert S. Nelson, Eds...

...Thanos Catsambas This essay summarizes developments since the outbreak of the Greek economic crisis in 2010 from the perspective of various myths that dominated the public discourse from 2010 to 2016. In the author's view, the perpetuation of these myths, which was partly the result of poor...

... distorted accounts regarding the Iraq crisis, the Balkan myths are as prevalent today as when they were first created. That situation is dangerous on two counts. First, it inhibits the formulation of intelligent, realistic, and equitable policies regarding current Balkan issues. Second, the success...

...Stephen B. Isabirye Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle, Editors: Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period since Independence . Athens, Ohio:Ohio University Press, 1995. 278 pages. $44.95; Canon Kodwo E. Ankrah: Development and the Church of Uganda: Mission, Myths...

... collected through a decade of ethnographic and archival research on the Greek island of Naxos, Stewart describes a type of religious “myth-­dream” that has come to serve as the basis for a collective historical conscious- ness present on the island. Stewart defines historical consciousness...

... Reviews Henry Maguire and Robert S. Nelson, Eds.: San Marco, Byzantium and the Myths of Venice. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. 296 pages. $60. ISBN 978-­0884023609 (hardcover). Reviewed by Constantine A. Pagedas. “This was Venice, the flattering...

... : Editura Militara , 2010 . 736 pages . ISBN 978-9733208365 (hardcover) . Copyright 2011 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2011 Reviews Henry Maguire and Robert S. Nelson, Eds.: San Marco, Byzantium and the Myths of Venice. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research...

... Andalusias, see the discussion of “le mythe neo-andalou” in Jean-Robert Henry, “Méditerranée occidentale et Euromediterranée, l’espace des malentendus,” Hérodote, no. 94 (July–September 1999): 24–36. Moulakis: The Mediterranean Region 13 The European Union is both...

...- ation in each nation of a “resistance myth” as an epic struggle that included the entire population united against the German oppressor, and second, the assignation of exclusive guilt for “the war, its suffering, and its crimes” to the Germans.1 Certainly both pillars of this European memory...

..., “Iran and the Shiite Crescent: Myths and Realities,” Brown Journal of World Affairs 15, no. 1 (2008): 87 – 99; Moshe Maoz, The ‘Shi’i Crescent’: Myth and Reality (Washington, DC: Brook- ings Institution, 2007), www.brookings.edu/wp- content/uploads/2016/06/11_middle_east_maoz .pdf; Rodger Shanahan...

..., a closer examination of the security argu- ment reveals discrepancies—outdated assumptions that led to certain myths based on old realities that do not match the current situation. While Israeli geography does not leave any margin for error, the concept...

... the traumatic events of the boom-­and-­bust Greek economy in its proper historical context while offering important policy prescriptions for the Tsipras government. Looking at the Greek debt crisis from an insider’s perspective in “The Greek Economic Crisis: Myths, Misperceptions, Truths...

... for having exerted a form of European “soft power,” thereby serving as a counterweight to American militarism. In academic studies of the development of the European project, the so-called peace myth is rarely questioned to any real extent. One explana- tion for this is that many in the field of EU...

... in Europe” or “Turkish Europe.” Venetian imperial ambi- tions have several sources, from the benign to the traditional play of power politics. O’Connell highlights Venice’s self-understanding as a natural maritime state as the source for true and perpetual dominion of the sea. The “myth of Venice...

... Europe.” Venetian imperial ambi- tions have several sources, from the benign to the traditional play of power politics. O’Connell highlights Venice’s self-understanding as a natural maritime state as the source for true and perpetual dominion of the sea. The “myth of Venice” was carefully crafted...

... of the sea. The “myth of Venice” was carefully crafted to justify Venice’s privileged position on the sea and perpetuated the notion that its rule was both benevolent and philanthropic in nature. The author points out that there are several interpretations of the ascendancy of Venice on the seas...

..., In Search of the Indo-­Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth (London: Thames Hudson, 1991). 10. The Genographic Project of the National Geographic Society has found that mitochondrial DNA haplotypes common in southern Europe (for example, “H”) date from Neolithic populations or earlier. See...

... thirty-six times more than the average 1. H. Solomon, Of Myths and Migration: Illegal Immigration into South Africa (Pretoria: Univer- sity of South Africa Press, 2003), 1. Hussein Solomon is professor of political science at the University of Pretoria and director of the Centre...