.... 2016 maritime Europe immigration sea power Eurasia Europe and Its Seas in the Twenty-­First Century Magnus Nordenman Unlike the Asia-­Pacific region, seen primarily as a maritime environment, Europe is most often thought about in terms of its land, as a continent whose destiny...

...Mohamed Nejib Hachana Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Mohamed Nejib Hachana is the ambassador of Tunisia to the United States. Twenty Years of Change: Tunisia’s Journey of Progress Continues Mohamed Nejib Hachana...

... of the Elliot School of International Relations at the George Washington University. Both authors are members of the Mediterranean Quarterly editorial advisory board. Constructive Internationalism: An American Foreign Policy for the Early Twenty-First Century...

...Petros Molyviatis Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Petros Molyviatis is foreign minister of Greece. This essay is based on his address to the fifty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Greek Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century...

...Mohamed A. El-Khawas Tunisians were the first in the region to oust a long-time dictator, one who had ruled the country for twenty-three years. It was a genuine popular revolution, started without a leader, and was nonpolitical, nonideological, and nonreligious. After toppling President Zine El...

...Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu The change in Turkish foreign policy in the twenty-first century’s second decade has its origin in the approach referred to by Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu as Strategic Depth. Because it aims to give Turkey status as a Eurasian power, this approach has been described...

...El Hassan The Middle East has 10 percent of the planet's land and 5 percent of its population, but it contains less than 1 percent of the world's freshwater resources. Thirteen of the twenty-two members of the Arab League rank among the world's most water-scarce nations. The effects of climate...

...Petros Vamvakas The geopolitical game of the twenty-first century will be multilateral and multidimensional, placing great emphasis on political and commercial interests such as resources, markets, ecology, and finance than on military interests. This essay argues that the eastern Mediterranean...

...David Binder It took twenty-seven years and the ending of the Cold War for former New York Times correspondent David Binder to obtain permission to enter Communist Albania. Once there, in 1990, the author was introduced to both suspicion and traditionally warm hospitality. He found Albania...

... the “responsibility to fix” of the twenty-first century. Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012 This essay was originally presented to the annual meeting of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament, Fircroft College, Birmingham, England, 2–6 September 2011. Anthony C. E...

... to the perceived strengths of the party, with Islamic rhetoric rising and falling with the support the party receives. The results suggest that the AKP cannot be seen as a party that had always intended to turn Turkey into a religious country. The strategies undertaken by the party since early in the twenty-first...

... of the Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, one of the BRI’s two main components. China’s maritime activity in the Mediterranean Sea and its shores consists mainly of constructing and operating ports or railways. The investments in sea-lanes and railways complement each other and jointly open new...

...Marién Durán Turkey has suffered through a process of autocratization in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The political turn from a defective democracy toward a competitive authoritarian state is part of the concentration and personalization of political power in the person of Recep...

... won only twenty parliamentary seats while the AKP won some fifty seats in heavily populated Kurdish regions also somewhat eased AKP concerns of the challenge of Kurdish nationalism within Turkey to the government and the state. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 From the EU Project...

...Pamela Lesser Twenty-one countries share the Mediterranean's coastline with no single country responsible for its environmental deterioration or its protection. They are collectively responsible for both. Over four decades, the environmental dimension of Europe's policy toward its Mediterranean...

...Gawdat Bahgat On 27 December 2008, Israeli forces attacked Gaza to stop missile attacks by Hamas. The military operation lasted twenty-two days and ended with a fragile cease-fire. This study seeks to provide an assessment of all involved parties' stances. The author argues that some parties gained...

...Stephen C. Calleya This article assesses early twenty-first-century dynamics in the Mediterranean area as indications of the limited success of countries in the region to integrate further into the emerging international system. Successive attempts to enhance regional and subregional dynamics...

...Ali Balci The history of the “deep state”—also known as Ergenekon —in Turkey starts with the foundation of the modern republic. Although references to the deep state date back to an earlier period, this essay examines coverage of it in the Turkish media during the late 1990s and the early-twenty...

...Helen Abadzi Since the nineteenth century, Greece and Albania have been separate countries, but for about twenty-two centuries they belonged to the same state in its various forms. The ancient Greeks and Illyrians were Indo-European tribes who intermarried with pre-Hellenic populations after...

... military capabilities and also encourage democracy. Thus, NATO has the potential to play a significant and constructive global security and political role in the twenty-first century. W. Bruce Weinrod was defense advisor to the US mission at NATO from 2007 to 2009. He was deputy assistant secretary...