...Marios L. Evriviades Claire Palley: An International Relations Debacle: The UN Secretary-General's Mission of Good Offices in Cyprus, 1999-2004. Oxford, England, and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-84113-578-X. 335 pages. $45. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006...

... secretary overpowered senior military officers as well as the Department of State and its secretary. While it is difficult for Congress to constrain a president once a major military enterprise has been approved, Congress has been even more compliant that usual in this case. There are no panaceas...

...Alon Ben-Meir There are many who doubt that the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations will lead to a solution, in spite of US secretary of state John Kerry’s efforts and the presumed commitment to peace of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. What...

...Njoki S. Ndungu In this essay the origins, dimensions, and implications of Kenya's election crisis of 2007 and the key actors who contributed to it are examined. The author reviews the efforts undertaken by the African Union and the former secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan...

...Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo The author, former deputy secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reviews the current status of the transatlantic alliance and the evolving role of NATO as an irreplaceable peacekeeping structure with extensive obligations in asymmetrical warfare...

... April, Skokov was appointed as the first secretary of the new council, which received the task of formulating domestic, foreign, and defense policies—preparing presi- dential decisions of a national security nature.1 Although one might think that this new organ had been conceived as a replica...

... Cyprus, Hellenic bitterness toward the alleged destructive role played by the United States in 1974 remains intense. Eugene Rossides, a leader of the Greek American lobby in Washington since 1974, for example, claims that then secretary of state Henry Kissinger...

... proponent of twentieth-century secular modernism in the Mediterranean region, Ataturk, aka Mustafa Kemal. The author of this book, Edward Hale Bierstadt, was neither Greek nor Armenian but the executive secretary of the Emergency Committee of Near East Refugees as well as an author, drama critic...

..., Ataturk, aka Mustafa Kemal. The author of this book, Edward Hale Bierstadt, was neither Greek nor Armenian but the executive secretary of the Emergency Committee of Near East Refugees as well as an author, drama critic, and criminologist living in New York City. The emergency Robert J. Pranger...

... that the United States should con- tinue to court King Saud’s loyalty with stable oil markets in Western Europe while working to unite the non-­Nasserist Arab regimes under King Saud’s leadership.7 For Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Saudi Arabia seemed a good fit for regional...

... of the region to empha- size the values of democracy and to lower the level of tension caused by fun- damentalist Islamic movements. Transformational Diplomacy Transformational diplomacy were some of the first watchwords of the Depart- ment of State when Secretary Rice assumed her...

... govern- ment-to-government interpretation — as late as 1927, the Havana Convention limited a diplomat’s relationship to the foreign office of the host state and clearly considered any direct communication with the host public as undip- lomatic. It was a time when Secretary of State Henry Stimson...

...Nicholas A. Veliotes Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Nicholas A. Veliotes, a member of Mediterranean Quarterly 's Editorial Advisory Board, is a former assistant secretary of state for the Near East and South Asia, ambassador to Egypt and Jordan, and chargéd'affaires in Israel...

... not camouflage failings. Whatever the future may bring, important past histor- ical events should not be buried. What might have been can be constructive. The civil wars in Yugoslavia were made inevitable by the premature rec- ognition of the secessionist republics by the Western powers. US secretary...

..., assistant secretary for diplomatic security, and director general of the Foreign Service. The New Imperialism: Stabilization and Reconstruction or the Responsibility to Fix? Anthony C. E. Quainton If a nation shows that it knows how to act...

... relations continued strong. At the 1981 celebration in Belgrade commemorating one hundred years of diplomatic relations, Assistant Secre- tary of State Lawrence Eagleburger (and until earlier that year ambassador to Yugoslavia) declared on behalf of the secretary...

... Reviews  87 Athens junta against such adventurism. Consumed by Watergate, President Richard Nixon had ceded foreign policy to his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. The head of US diplomacy harbored no warm feelings toward the archbishop, whom Kissinger considered too independent...

... Reviews  87 Athens junta against such adventurism. Consumed by Watergate, President Richard Nixon had ceded foreign policy to his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. The head of US diplomacy harbored no warm feelings toward the archbishop, whom Kissinger considered too independent...

... Reviews  87 Athens junta against such adventurism. Consumed by Watergate, President Richard Nixon had ceded foreign policy to his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. The head of US diplomacy harbored no warm feelings toward the archbishop, whom Kissinger considered too independent...

... by Viscount Milner, the British secretary of state for the colonies, and Henry Simon, the French minister for the colonies. Under the terms of this agreement, Bakassi and the rest of British Cameroon was placed under British mandate and administered coterminous with Nige- ria, but the two never merged...