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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (1): 81–97.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Kostas Rontos; Luca Salvati; Petros Sioussiouras; Ioannis Vavouras The authors propose a classification of the perceived corruption levels of Mediterranean countries according to key political, economic, and social factors. While relevant empirical research has shown the extent of corruption...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (4): 167–171.
Published: 01 December 2006
...C. Edward Dillery Alfonso Perez-Agote: The Social Roots of Basque Nationalism . Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006. Translated by Cameron Watson and Williams A. Douglas. 246 pages. ISBN 0-87417-605-0. $39.95. Reviewed by C. Edward Dillery. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 C...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (4): 77–92.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Petros Vamvakas The global financial crisis of 2009–2010 has further underscored the demise of social democracy as a legitimate political alternative, for example, due to an absence of a clearly articulated alternative approach to the crisis offered by Social Democratic parties, even though...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2003) 14 (3): 125–127.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Filip Kovacevic Victor Roudometof: Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans . Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Press, 2001. 304 pages. ISBN 0-313-31949-9. $72.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Filip Kovacevic is a political...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (4): 186–202.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Benjamin Kline Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Benjamin Kline is professor of history at De Amza College, Cupertino,California. The Changing Social Environment of Modern Ireland: Immigration and the Issues of Politics, Economics, and Security...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2000) 11 (3): 144–163.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Page 144 The Social Origins of Balkan Politics: Nationalism, Underdevelopment, and the Nation-State in Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, 1880–1920 Victor...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (4): 110–131.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Constantine P. Danopoulos This essay explores and assesses the connection between accountability and the quality of democracy in modern Greece along three key dimensions: vertical, horizontal, and social. Vertical involves elected officials and the three branches of government; horizontal deals...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 43–67.
Published: 01 December 2013
... accompanied by corruption, structural economic problems, social exclusion, and negligence of good governance and the rule of law. This essay suggests that the juxtaposition of economic reform and liberalization with corruption, authoritarianism, and absence of good governance were a recipe for the social...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (1): 98–118.
Published: 01 March 2013
... effects of diamond exploration in countries that are contemptuous of good governance and are experiencing lawlessness, economic deprivation, social unrest, and political instability. This essay provides a timely reminder to Cameroon on the consequences of mismanaged natural resources. It explores...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 19–42.
Published: 01 December 2013
... that any similarities are slight and superficial. At the same time, similarities rooted in economic, social, and political change do exist between all outbreaks of depredation at sea and the responses to them. Martin N. Murphy is an internationally recognized expert on piracy and unconventional...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (4): 83–106.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of Turkish society are examined vis-à-vis those dominant in European societies. Levels of religiosity, interpersonal trust, and social tolerance are selected for cross-cultural comparison. The essay elaborates on the reasons Turkish society has been diverging from European societies on value orientations...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (2): 21–41.
Published: 01 June 2015
... perspective, dramatized by AQI’s use of social media, attracted thousands of foreign fighters to Iraq. The Jordanian’s struggle against Shiite apostates and 2006 martyrdom in a US airstrike continues to dazzle young militants. Second, the essay analyzes AQI’s regeneration and metamorphosis into ISIS and its...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (3): 18–28.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and the result of error on both sides. While an interim agreement was reached on 20 February 2015 to extend Greece's bailout by four months, the longer-term outcome was far from clear. Social and economic pressures had been building in Greece since 2008, resulting in the 25 January 2015 election of a radical...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (1): 3–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Sotiris Rizas During the 1960s Italy and Greece were undergoing rapid economic and social changes that were significant in both their economic and political ramifications. US policy was able to influence the course of events either bilaterally or multilaterally in the context of the Bretton Woods...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2008) 19 (4): 91–110.
Published: 01 December 2008
... interest and transform themselves by circumventing the many economic, political, and social contradictions that are afflicting them. J. Ndumbe Anyu is associate professor of public administration and policy at the University of the District of Columbia and assistant editor of Mediterranean Quarterly...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2010) 21 (4): 55–76.
Published: 01 December 2010
... the Western Saharan conflict, but only if it genuinely advances the political, social, economic, and environmental fulfillment of the people living there. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Yossef Ben-Meir is professor of sociology, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. He is president of the High...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (3): 112–130.
Published: 01 September 2017
... for the necessity for further research on the Arabic conception of state-society relations. This approach may unravel whether the social foundations in the region are conducive for democracy and shed light on the nature of traditional authority that has commanded loyalty from people over many centuries...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2018) 29 (1): 70–95.
Published: 01 March 2018
...P. R. Kumaraswamy; Manjari Singh The ability of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to provide basic food to its citizens and inhabitants and thus ensure food security has been hampered by a host of physiological factors and resource constraints. Some of the periodic social upheavals and violence...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2018) 29 (4): 52–76.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Ihsan Yilmaz Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments have managed to remove Kemalism only to replace it with an Islamist nation-building and social-engineering project that is as, if not more, authoritarian, conservative, and regressive than the Kemalist one. The Turkish education...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (3): 86–100.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... In this article, therefore, I offer what I believe to be a much-needed con- ceptual analysis of the dominant socializing dynamics adopted by European 3. The origins of this term are usually traced to former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and his suggestion of a “global Balkans...