... manageable changes can strengthen the system and make another Iraq far less likely. The roles of the secretary of state and national security adviser need to be strengthened, and career military officers and civil servants must be encouraged and supported in their efforts to offer independent views to the...

...Dora Bakoyannis Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Dora Bakoyannis is foreign minister of Greece. This essay is adapted from a speech at the international conference “Solving the Security Puzzle in the Mediterranean and the Broader Middle East,” held in Athens on 24 November 2006...

...Anthony N. Celso Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Anthony N. Celso is assistant professor of government at Valley Forge College in Pennsylvania. Spain’s Dual Security Dilemma: Strategic Challenges of Basque and Islamist Terror during the Aznar and Zapatero...

...Robert J. Pranger Bat Ye'or: Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis . Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. 384 pages. ISBN 0-8386-4077-X. $23.95. Raffaella A. Del Sarto: Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area . New York: Palgrave Macmillan...

...J. Ndumbe Anyu; Samuel Moki The authors contend that the pervasiveness of piracy on the African coasts is threatening global security. Within Somalia, it is causing a disruption of food supplies, fostering internal conflict, and increasing the prices of basic commodities. Globally, it is...

... Cruces, N. Mex. Russia, China, and the Energy-Security Politics of the Caspian Sea Region after the Cold War Gregory Hall and Tiara Grant In this essay we examine the interests and policies of Russia and China, respectively, in the Caspian Sea region since the...

...Ioannis Mantzikos In December 1992, the United Nations Security Council, acting under chapter 7 of its charter, authorized the use of all necessary means to secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to the people of Somalia. In the collapsing landscape of that country, however, the intervention of...

...Jeffrey S. Morton; Nicole Shortt The popular uprising that started in Tunisia in December 2010 quickly spread across the Arab world, culminating in a historic regional realignment with far-reaching implications. This essay details the implications of the Arab Spring for Israeli security. After...

... deputy to the commander and foreign policy advisor of the United States European Command. Hunt Swanee : Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . 296 pages. ISBN 978-0-822-34975-4 ( hardcover ). $32.95 . Copyright 2012 by...

...Timothy C. Kroboth Timothy C. Kroboth is a data management assistant for the Global Learning Initiative at Winthrop University. He studied at the American University in Cairo in 2010. Haas Mark L. : The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security...

...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 with...

...James M. Quirk Norman Angell and Alfred Thayer Mahan were two of the leading thinkers on pre–World War I “interdependence,” offering competing lessons on the changes in technology, economics, and security. At different times during the twentieth century, each one’s ideas seemed to best explain...

... Page 24 The Mediterranean and Its Security Agenda Stephen Blank The war in Kosovo has kept Balkan issues atop the agendas of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United States, but we should remem...

...-Ismay Europe: Britain and the Rebalance of European Security Constantine A. Pagedas At the height of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s first secretary-general, Lord Ismay, famously...

...Fotios Moustakis; Michael Sheehan Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Fotios Moustakis is a research fellow at the Scottish Centre for International Security, Department of Politics and International Relations,University of Aberdeen, UK. Michael Sheehan is director of the Scottish Centre for...

...Bülent Aras Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Bülent Aras is assistant professor of international relations at Fatih University, Istanbul. The Caspian Region and Middle East Security Bülent Aras Recent discussions on Middle Eastern security have...

...Gregory O. Hall Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Bülent Aras is assistant professor of international relations at Fatih University, Istanbul. Globalization and the New Security Agenda in Eastern Europe Gregory O. Hall In this...

... 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 of...

...Ron Paul Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Ron Paul is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas. Trading Freedom for Security: Drifting toward a Police State Ron Paul Most Americans believe we live in...

...Donald M. Payne Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Donald M. Payne, Democrat of New Jersey, is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee. Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: Bargaining with Law Breakers Donald M. Payne...