...Philemon Bantimaroudis Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Philemon Bantimaroudis bio to go here. Andrea Papandreou and the American Media: The Salient Attributes of a Socialist Philemon Bantimaroudis During the last four decades of the twentieth...

...Anthony N. Celso Elected on a platform of withdrawal from Iraq after the 3/11 train bombings, Spanish socialists sought early on to embark on an antiterrorist policy of negotiation and dialogue with disgruntled Arab and Basque communities. The socialists' early efforts at achieving a historic...

...George C. Papavizas Known as Paionia in antiquity, Vardarska Banovina from 1929 through 1944, and the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in Josip Broz Tito's time, this small Yugoslav province seceded from Yugoslavia to become the “Republic of Macedonia.” Accepted by the United Nations as the “Former...

...-oriented parties. For Socialist and Social Democratic parties, this has meant the end of the centrality of the welfare state in their ideological domain. However, other trends have been equally damaging. Unionization, which has been in decline since the 1980s, primarily because of the changing nature...

... trains, killing 192 people and wounding 1,500 others. Basque and Islamist terrorism continues to haunt the Spanish political scene, and the terrorism issue has accelerated partisan divisions. The Socialist Party’s electoral victory on 14 March 2004 was widely inter- 1. Yonah Alexander, ed...

... on the 14 March election (when the opposition Socialist Party was unexpectedly elected) and the Socialists’ decision to accelerate the withdrawal of Spanish forces from Iraq are testimony to al Qaeda’s skills at political extortion. The electoral and policy consequences of 3/11, however, mask...

.... In summer 1997 Albanians went to the polls for the fourth time in just six years. The Socialist Party won. Its leader, Fatos Nano, whom Berisha had put in jail in 1993 on dubious corruption charges, was released from prison and became prime minister of Albania. A year later Nano himself was forced...

..., meshing Egyptian nationalism with socialist goals, as expressed with the introduction of prosocialist laws in 1961.7 Especially from 1961 onward, those thinkers advocating pan-­Arabism and Arab socialism enjoyed high standing in the universities and media.8 That Egypt’s National Charter...

... is prime minister of Greece and president of the Socialist International. This essay is adapted for Mediterranean Quarterly from an address to the Council of the Socialist International, New York, 21 June 2010. A New Global Financial Architecture: Lessons from the Greek...

... that Italy had to improve its manufacturing base by curtail- ing consumption and excess purchasing power.21 The political landscape was complicated after the formation of the December 1963 center-­left coalition of the Christian Democrats and the Socialists.22 The latter disengaged themselves from...

... interests have set up shop in the country while an ill-paid, demoralized, poorly organized bureaucracy practically invites bribes. In view of such a critical problem, in October 2001 Socialist Party leader Fatos Nano initiated the so-called movement for catharsis...

... from his own party and opinion polls that predicted a loss, he insisted this was best for the country. It was certainly best for him, for the victorious socialists under George Papandreou announced three weeks after their vic- tory on 4 October 2009 that the government’s budget deficit would hit...

... at the expense of everything else. This translates into political problems for the government’s socialist party—PASOK—because the sacrifices made by the Greek people to enter the Euro-zone have not yet produced visible results. If defense expenditures...

....” And, eureka, his single-­minded explanation is the rise of “populism” in postjunta Greece, particularly in the post-­1981 period following the election of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the allegedly socialist party of the charismatic economist and politician Andreas Papandreou. Given...

... Bakoyannis: Terrorism in Greece: Revisiting an Issue 3 organization. The 17 November group is an extreme, dogmatic organization with hard-line Marxist characteristics. It operates under the banner of so- called socialist revolution, which it believes can be attained...

... state. Sell’s Milosevic is a caricature, a cunning power seeker and maddened fool who turns on trusted comrades and plays on divisions within the party. This Milosevic is both an “orthodox socialist” and an “opportunistic Serbian nation- alist...

..., a cunning power seeker and maddened fool who turns on trusted comrades and plays on divisions within the party. This Milosevic is both an “orthodox socialist” and an “opportunistic Serbian nation- alist,” a demagogic power-hungry “second Tito” who...

... Mitter- rand presidency. After all, there was a fellow socialist prime minister of Spain, Gonzalez, and so the old human rights justification against sending people back to Franco’s Spain wore thin. France instituted an active program of cooperation with Spanish authorities. They began to round up...

... society, and establish an Islamic state, urging a radical rupture with the hybrid postcolonial cul- ture of Algeria and its combination of multiple Arab, Berber, French, mar- aboutist, socialist, and secular infl uences. Besides, among the subtle poisons left behind by the abhorred French...

... Like These, Larry Watts argues convincingly that Romania was indeed a defiant state, and it was actually the Soviet propaganda machinery that cultivated the notion that Romania was a loyal fraternal socialist state indulging in demonstrative politics for public and international consumption...