... Reviews Evaggelos G. Vallianatos: The Passion of the Greeks: Christianity and the Rape of the Hellenes. Harwich Port, Mass.: Clock and Rose, 2006. 245 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59386-039-4. $39.95. Reviewed by Christos C. Evan- geliou. This book was a pleasant surprise for me. Its title, The Passion...

... of the Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, one of the BRI’s two main components. China’s maritime activity in the Mediterranean Sea and its shores consists mainly of constructing and operating ports or railways. The investments in sea-lanes and railways complement each other and jointly open new...

... dynamic shipping industry was a major strategic advantage, over which the two countries’ main interests and priorities could meet, and it was ready to cash in on this new prospect. This opportunity was enhanced by the Greek government’s readiness for the privatization of sig- nificant ports. Greek...

.... Mediter- ranean ports face tough competition from Northern European ports, and this could become even tougher with a potential permanent opening of a new sea route through the Arctic. Today this route is opened for a few weeks per year, but if expected climate changes continue, this route could...

... rising geo­ political influence through efforts to increase access to ports and airfields, develop special diplo- matic relationships, and modernize military forces that extend from the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean, and on to the Arabian Gulf.” Christopher...

... Economic Belt Initiative. In April 2015, Chinese president Xi Jinping visited Pakistan and pledged a $46 billion infrastructure package to establish the China-­Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), with plans to connect Pakistan’s Arabian Sea Port of Gwa- dar to China’s Kashgar in Xinjiang province...

... of Commerce”; then the second by Caglar Keyder of the same institution and also of the State University of New York, Binghamton, “Port-­cities in the Belle Epoque”; and finally the last, “The Deep Structures of Mediterranean Modernity,” by Edmund Burke III of the University of California, Santa Cruz...

... by the editors (both on the faculty of Bogazici University in Istanbul), “Mapping Out the Eastern Mediterranean: Toward a Cartography of Cit- ies of Commerce”; then the second by Caglar Keyder of the same institution and also of the State University of New York, Binghamton, “Port-­cities in the Belle Epoque...

... of Cit- ies of Commerce”; then the second by Caglar Keyder of the same institution and also of the State University of New York, Binghamton, “Port-­cities in the Belle Epoque”; and finally the last, “The Deep Structures of Mediterranean Modernity,” by Edmund Burke III of the University...

... Abdullah Eco- nomic City at Rabigh north of Jiddah, with $27 billion in investment and an eventual population of 2 million, will have its own major port, industrial and light manufacturing, resorts, and an education complex. The Jizan Economic City in the south will entail $27 billion in investment...

..., Inc. Psilos: Albanian Nationalism and Unionist Ottomanization, 1908 to 1912 27 man civilian and military apparatus, thereby gaining an increasing share in the administration of the empire. More than thirty Albanians had assumed the leadership of the Sublime Porte as Ottoman grand...

... at activating US attention to sup- port Greece during its hour of need. No matter its government’s intentions, in a period of turmoil between Greece and the EU as well as between the EU and Russia (mainly because of the Ukrainian issue), Greece’s European partners perceived its moves as blackmail...

... between 1998 and 2000.1 An estimated 75,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 displaced. Because of the prevailing poor state of relations between the two countries, donor countries are forced to use primarily the port of Djibouti instead of the ports of Assab and Massawa in Eritrea, which...

... in nineteenth-century Egypt, and the introduction of modern Western psychiatric asylums into Egypt and Lebanon); (3) port cities and their populations (migrant workers in Salonica during the eighteenth century, European social outcasts in precolonial Tunisia, and the relations between public morality...

..., and the introduction of modern Western psychiatric asylums into Egypt and Lebanon); (3) port cities and their populations (migrant workers in Salonica during the eighteenth century, European social outcasts in precolonial Tunisia, and the relations between public morality and marginality in Ottoman Beirut); and (4...

... and Lebanon); (3) port cities and their populations (migrant workers in Salonica during the eighteenth century, European social outcasts in precolonial Tunisia, and the relations between public morality and marginality in Ottoman Beirut); and (4) entertainers (in Baghdad in the first half of the twentieth...

... and shipments and verifies their arrival at scheduled ports. Furthermore, the bureau was empowered to launch full-scale investigations to assist in the resolution of piratical acts. In 1982, the United Nations followed with the development of a legal regime to deal with this phenomenon. The UN Law...

... the criticisms and say they plan to deliver an estimated eight hundred thousand tons of food to the region. Delivery of humanitarian assistance could be hampered by the Ethiopia- Eritrea conflict. Prior to the conflict, Ethiopia used the Eritrean ports...

... Sea. As well as gaining full and unrestricted access to the port of Sevastopol, Russia has acquired the former Ukrainian naval bases of Novoozerne on Donuzlav Bay, Myrnyi, Saky, Balaklava, and a marine infantry base in Feodosiia.17 Russia has also inherited seven shipyards in 11. Sergey...

... to cross the dividing line, increase trade between the two communities, and more. We have also proposed the joint opening of a port in order to facilitate trade, and the Larnaca airport is available for the export of Turkish Cypriot products to the rest of the world. Further, the gov...