...Stephen Blank Even as the world focuses on Ukraine, Washington has conspicuously ignored resolute action to resolve existing conflicts in the Caucasus, in particular the so-called frozen conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Here, Washington has refused to see that Russia...

... to achieve “zero problems with the neighbors.” While we could previously see the removal of the political from foreign policy in Turkey, now we also can see the clear return of the political. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Yasin Aktay is a professor at Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey...

...Stephen Blank; Younkyoo Kim Many see the western Balkans as the back yard of Europe. As the promise and reality of regional economic integration has weakened, however, Russia has returned to the area to play its historically important regional role. In the Balkans, a Russian or Russifying project...

... compelling that Russia sees Iran as a partner against the United States and that the US concessions made to Russia to elicit support against Iran appear to have been excessive. Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012 Stephen Blank is professor of Russian national security studies...

...-thirsty India) vie for partnerships with the energy-rich former Soviet republics. Russia lays special claim to what it sees as its “near abroad” (notably, the Caucasus and Central Asia), and its leaders strive to limit US influence over the energy resources of the CSB. China, a global economic power still...

... not designate any sociopolitical entity. 2. Both of the official “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” tourist organizations use this kind of terminology, but it also seems to be especially popular among northern Cyprus real estate agents and hotel owners. See www.northcyprus.org...

... on the topic, which then have to be ratified according to national constitutional procedures of EU member states. 2. On the progressive extension of the EP’s power in this field, see Esther Barbé and Anna Her- ranz Surrallés, “The Power and Practice of the European Parliament in Security Policies...

... of international affairs — support for the 1. See на и за 15 2008 15 July 2008, www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/0/3A2F0D08C2EAD75BC3257487004 AF080, accessed 6 August 2008. 2. EULEX’s mission statement is available on its website, www.eulex-kosovo.eu/?id=2. 3. Information on the Serbian initiative...

... guilty of them as well. Proof of this shared responsibility for the evils of the war is widespread: thousands of Poles were executed at the hands of the Red Army; Allied forces bombed 1. See T. Judt, The Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe, in I. Deàk, J. T. Gross, and T...

... assumes a constructive synthesis of values and the elimination of the pros- perity gap through the overall convergence of the two worlds. 1. See N. Mousis, European Union: Law-Economy-Politics (Athens: Papazisis, 2001), 5; D. Papa- giannis, Introduction to European Law (Athens-Komotini: A. Sakkoulas...

... This would mean that the Kemalist state 1. In 2003 the infl ation rate in Turkey was 65 percent, compared to the 1.3 percent infl ation rate of the EU. Turkey’s accession to the EU will provide greater scope of employment for the existing unem- ployed Turkish youth. See Jacqueline Paranzino...

..., the Orthodox outsider in Western organizations. . . . In the post – Cold War world, Greece’s policies have increasingly deviated from those of the West. . . . Greece will undoubtedly remain a formal member of NATO and 1. See Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu, A Power Audit of EU-Russia...

... concerning the end of history. The international arena may be characterized as political when the probability of using violence is low. See George Voskopoulos, English-Greek Armed Forces Glossary of Strategic and Military Terms (Athens: Mediapress, 1998), 14. For a thorough presentation, see H...

..., but also about 1. For recent work, see Stelios Stavridis and Davor Jancic, eds., “Parliamentary Diplomacy Uncov- ered: European and Global Perspectives,” special issue, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 11, nos. 2–3 (2016). See also Stelios Stavridis, ‘“Parliamentary Diplomacy’: Some Preliminary...

.... The main reason behind the difference between the European south and the Arab world does not lie in a divergent approach toward political violence. As 2. For a thorough analysis, see P. R. Lane, “The European Sovereign Debt Crisis,” Journal of Eco- nomic Perspectives 26, no. 3 (2012): 49 – 68. 54...

... of the Classical Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 13. 2. Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land (New York: Penguin, 2010), 181. 3. The list included (in order) Aristotle, Plato, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Leo­ nardo Da Vinci, Confucius, Julius Caesar, Homer, and Pythagoras. See...

... perspective could better elucidate the ancient Greek-­Albanian relations. For 1. The magazine Mbesa, published by the Arvanite Association of Greece, repeatedly states that Arvanite is the language of the Pelasgians. See, for example, “Two Arvanite Goddesses in the Greek Pantheon,” Mbesa, January 2005...

... of re- establishing the state of affairs created by the present Treaty.” See the Treaty of Guarantee of the Republic of Cyprus, Cyprus- Greece- Turkey, UK, 16 August 1960, UN 5475, peacemaker.un.org/cyprus- greece- turkey- guarantee60. For an extensive analysis of the issue, see Iacovos Kareklas...

..., Ethnonationalism: The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 116. 6. See James P. Rubin, “Honoring Nation-Building,” Washington Post, 19 October 2004, A23. * Editors’ note: MQ uses the UN-designated and agreed-upon name for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

... in the political culture of the Balkan nation-states from 1880 to 1920.3 This restriction does not dis- card the importance of intellectuals in providing the intellectual edifice for 1. See Danna Mishkova, “Modernization and Political Elites in the Balkans before the First...