...George Bistis This essay traces the history of the Far Right in Greece, which is on the rise again almost four decades after the collapse of the military junta that ruled the Mediterranean country from 1967 to 1974. The author examines how the Golden Dawn party capitalized on Greek citizens...

...Robert J. Pranger Jan Herman Brinks: Children of a New Fatherland: Germany's Post-War Right-Wing Politics , translated by Paul Vincent, with a foreword by David Binder. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000. 200 pages. ISBN 1-86064-458-9. $35.00. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant...

...Sotiris G. Vandoros This essay systematically explores the role the immigration issue played in the electoral and overall political power structure of right-wing extremism in Greece as expressed by Golden Dawn. It employs a political-opportunity structure along with a discursive-opportunity...

... 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...

... in the Caucasus, the chaos and poverty that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the Kremlin’s human rights violations in Chechnya in many ways contributed to the rise of terrorism and Muslim extremism in Russia. In addition, the Kremlin uses terrorism as an excuse for an increased crackdown on civil...

.... Kabasakal Arat, ed. Human Rights in Turkey. Philadelphia: Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 349 pages. ISBN 978-08122-4000-9/ ISBN-10: 0-8122-4000-6. $69.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Pranger. Human rights, in the sense of an itemized list of individual liberties protected by legal safeguards...

...Donald M. Payne The author, a US representative (Dem., N.J.), outlines the obstacles to Turkey's path to membership in the European Union. They are of Turkey's creation, centered around human rights and freedoms of ethnic and religious minorities. Copyright 2010 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc...

... on research conducted under a NATO fellowship. MQ 13.3-09 Dagi 7/25/02 2:52 PM Page 119 Human Rights and International Security: The Challenge for NATO in the Mediterranean Ihsan D. Dagi The relevance...

...Petros Sioussiouras; Ioannis Vavouras This essay provides an account of the phenomenon of corruption in the Balkan and Arab countries of the Mediterranean. The analysis focuses on the effects that the political system—approached through the lens of political rights—and the level of economic...

...Van Coufoudakis In this essay a largely forgotten human rights issue involving the fate of the Greek-in-origin population that inhabited the Turkish islands of Imbros and Tenedos is examined. Exempted from the Greek-Turkish population-exchange agreements concluded following the end of World War I...

... and assertion of their rights. The authors conclude that any attempts at finding solutions to the conflict must address issues of program and policy. They posit that policies founded on rights and environmental justice are imperative to help to resolve the differences between the fighting stakeholders...

... for US policy and its ideals of self-determination and human rights? Will the liberals triumph, or will the Egyptian people face a hard-line Islamic future? This article attempts to answer these questions. Richard T. Sale is a former intelligence correspondent for UPI and the Middle East Times...

.... The Ennahda-led coalition needs to get the right mix of resources to make progress in reducing unemployment. Tunisians cannot do it alone; external assistance is badly needed. Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012 Mohamed A. El-Khawas is professor of history and political science...

...Andrew Cooke-Welling This essay considers whether genocide is a neglected area of criminological inquiry. After a brief history of its evolution and definition, genocide is considered alongside other crimes against international law, including international human rights law (specifically, war...

... policy, demonstrating that, besides its pragmatic features, it reveals idealistic motives, especially since 1991. These motives issue from a rich nexus of historical, religious, and cultural bonds, resulting in support for essentially idealist legal norms and ethical values that defend the rights...

... in various countries by analyzing differences in their respective values on a corruption perceptions index, the variables used here include additional data such as gross national income per person in purchasing power parities, a political rights index, a civil liberties index, and a nonincome human...

...Simone Dossi As political instability challenges China’s growing interests in the Mediterranean region, the European Union might prove to be the right partner for Beijing. This essay assesses the prospects for EU-Chinese security cooperation in the region. A shared doctrinal concern...

... of American lectures on human rights have all suffered. Stephen Blank is senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC. Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Russia Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh Caucasus US Policy, Azerbaijan, and the Nagorno...

... Cairo's insistence that its “historic rights” to the Nile be preserved and the belligerent response by Egyptian politicians to Ethiopia's inauguration of the Millennium Project in the spring of 2013. A careful survey of recent relations between the two states demonstrates that the dispute retains a high...

..., but over time they have become distant from democratic processes as they have sought to claim property rights over more and more of the planet, and now of outer space. Consequently, what remains of the global commons is on the verge of extinction. This essay examines whose interests such activities serve...