... at Tabatabi University in Tehran and chief economist at the Economic Cooperation Organization headquarters. MQ 12.4-05 Afras 10/16/01 1:07 PM Page 62 The Economic Cooperation Organization: Regionalization in a Competitive Context...

... Angjeli: The Challenge of Terrorism and Organized Crime 39 estimated to provide the raw materials for four to six tons of heroin a month that transit through Turkey to the Balkans and into lucrative Western mar- kets. The International Organization for Migration estimates that approxi- mately...

...Danijela Dudley Parallel expansions of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in recent decades have blurred the lines between membership in the two organizations and the conditionalities attached to each. While both organizations have seemed successful in attracting...

... by the United States and European powers that found it convenient and desirable to dominate and exploit a bunch of fiefdoms. The outside powers reinforced the new system of minirepublics by inviting candidacy in their continental economic organization, the European Union, and their now global security...

...David Binder The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has some strange partners, in terms of history. The oddest couple of all may be Greece and Turkey. The two neighbors fought four wars in the space of a quarter century (1897 to 1922) and are still mutually suspicious. But they have followed...

... of Integra Foundation, a Maltese nongovernmental organization working in development. Blessed Is He Who Considers the Human Rights Paradigm: Maltese Aid between Charity and Human Rights and between Catholicism and Secularism Isabelle Calleja-­Ragonesi, Anna Khakee, and Maria Pisani...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Western leaders portray the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a league of democratic nations as well as a security alliance. Although the organization tolerated illiberal members during the Cold War, it would be more than a little embarrassing to have an outright autocracy...

...-first century. Ergenekon was conceptualized, debated, defined, and redefined by the media; it was brought to public attention by the media, not by state officials, the police, politicians, inspectors, or members of the organization. The author's intent is not to redefine Ergenekon yet again...

... every member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the 1960s. The new impetus in Greek-Soviet relations in the late 1970s, after the restoration of democracy in 1974, did not signify the loosening of Greek loyalty to the West but was a pragmatic pursuit of interests between two asymmetrical...

... attention in the wake of two major diplomatic crises in 2010: a flotilla incident—when the ship the Mavi Marmara , owned by a Turkish nonprofit organization, was boarded by the Israeli military while on the way to Gaza with aid—and Turkey’s “no” vote at the UN Security Council on sanctions against Iran...

...Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud This essay analyzes how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is likely to address the new security environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It investigates how factors internal and external to the alliance shape the possibilities and limits...

... Organization. The campaign opened a violent episode in the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict. Almost immediately the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office recognized the challenge to the international community. The crisis in the Middle East occurred during a period of substantial turnover in the foreign...

... supported the regime of Bashar al-Assad and the latter backed the military coup in Egypt. Turkey needed the support of its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies against these two rival blocs. However, Erdogan's populist discourse and tendency toward Islamist authoritarianism further deteriorated...

... Additional indices paint a similarly troubling picture. For instance, Greece has the lowest reform capacity of any of the 30 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop- ment and is close to the bottom within the EU as far as social mobility and near the top in inequality.4 When...

... isolated than he believed. After six years he had lost control of the army, with real power 19. For a detailed account of the organisation, suppression, and aftermath of the naval coup and for the students’ demonstrations of February and March, see Grigoriadis...

... coordination of efforts on national, subregional, regional, and international levels to combat foreign terrorist fighters. 110  Mediterranean Quarterly: December 2016 Within this framework, PAM was requested to organize and coordinate the Parliamentary Programme on Counter-­Terrorism Legislation...

... grow from pariahs to kingmakers in northern Syria? This essay surveys the strategy of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the most powerful organization among the Syrian Kurds, from 2011 until the first half of 2016, and shows how the PYD's realpolitik secured the party's survival and, eventually...

... of the integration, without exception, of these countries in the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Greece, the oldest member of both the EU and NATO in southeastern Europe and a country directly impacted by the instability in the Balkans in the 1990s, instantly recognized that its...

... accord with the Basque separatist organization ETA and its willingness to accommodate and integrate North African diaspora communities have floundered. Faced with repeated terrorist attacks and plots, the socialists have reversed course and have moved decisively toward a more draconian law enforcement...

... of the state machinery. This article sheds light on the organization of the deep state, some of the underlying reasons behind its emergence, and its activities affecting the country's course of democratization or lack thereof. It argues that with the recent efforts of deconstructing the deep state, Turkey has...