... of an antiballistic missile defense shield. Rather, the key to US hegemony is the establishment of a multipolar American.led international system. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Pax Americana or Multilateralism? Reflecting on the United States’ Grand Strategic Vision of Hegemony...

... The Bush “Vision” for Palestine: Realistic or Apocalyptic? Nicholas A. Veliotes President George W. Bush unveiled his “vision” for addressing the Palestin- ian issue on 24 June 2002. As he endorsed an eventual...

..., and by extension the question of Europe.s Muslim minority, will be possible only through a new, multicivilizational vision of Europe that confronts the minimalist discourse. Such a vision will enable Europe to emerge as a global power as opposed to an introverted regional player. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc...

...Igor Torbakov This essay investigates the ideational aspect of contemporary Turkey's identity politics and international conduct and compares these to Russia's. Over the past decade, several analysts have speculated that Russia and Turkey could form a strategic axis based on the shared vision...

..., practically all of the visions, movements, and concrete institutional arrangements working toward European integration during this period placed Africa’s incorporation into the European enterprise as a central objective. As much of the scholarly, political, and journalistic accounts at the time testify...

... parts: a critical introduction that assesses the role of WANA within the spectrum of Chinese hierarchical vision of the international system, a detailed assessment of the factors that are transforming WANA into one of the most crucial sectors of Beijing’s foreign policy, and a detailed overview...

...Anthony N. Celso This essay studies the rise, decline, and rebirth of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and its transformation into the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). It first examines AQI’s distinctive vision and its defiance of al Qaeda central. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s anti-Shiite jihadist...

... in Cyprus. In the relative absence of major normative preconditions for settlement, including a lack of common vision and mutual trust, the pillar notions of federalism and consociationalism have been adapted to serve each side's vital security concerns and to increase each side's leverage in a future...

...Tiago A. Ferreira Lopes In 1993, Piotr Sztompka stated that some post-Soviet societies were doomed to suffer from “civilizational incompetence.” The key argument was that the vision of a golden past acts as a deterrence mechanism against the future. Modernization is resisted not because of its...

... of the international community, for their part, joined forces to consolidate long-term peace and stabilization efforts in the region and offer a new vision to the countries of southeastern Europe, a vision realized through the expansion of European and Euro-Atlantic values and principles. This vision consists...

... pushing the country toward a new “Hellenic” identity. In the shadow of these macropolitical events, several shepherds from the Naxiote vil- lage of Koronos began to have dreams and visions of the Madonna, in which she urged them to search for a buried icon depicting her image and to build a new...

... as NATO’s priority given to Eastern and Central Europe after the Cold War, have resulted in a failure to establish a common vision and shared interests between the MENA partners and NATO. This has sub- sequently led to a mismatch between what NATO is willing to offer and what the MENA partners want...

..., Slavonic, and Turkish identities and is the common thread of Eurasianism’s shared civilization. The Orthodox faith is a major determinant of Russian identity, and thus of Eurasian civilization, but Eurasians draw attention to their vision of a totality of common values that will include, rather...

... (ANT1), a leading private television channel in Greece. With its first broadcast on 31 December 1989, ANT1 quickly became one of the top- rated and most popular staples of news, media, and entertainment in Greece. But perhaps more important, Kyriakou’s vision for a media con- glomerate included...

... East Environment 5 The international community is also showing a renewed interest in the progress of the region. President George W. Bush has recently put forth a new vision for the Middle East. This vision calls for the establishment of a free-trade area between the United States...

... over its vision for the future, the regional competition for domination, and the painstaking, emerging prospects for a settlement of the Palestinian question — is not always an enviable geography to have. The thesis supported here is that stability, predictability, and reliability are unique...

... members of the Senate2 in a letter to President Bush urged him to support further NATO enlargement. The letter noted: No foreign policy priority is more important than fulfi lling the vision of a Europe whole and free. This goal has served as a reliable guide for US policy for well over fi...

... discuss the notion of ecumenicity of Orthodoxy that has been promulgated for centuries by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. “Ecumenic- ity” refers to the leadership role of the patriarch of Istanbul (Constantinople) among Orthodox churches in fostering a supranational or cosmopolitan vision...

... policies and that have sparked a reversion to an earlier vision of preferred and nonpreferred immigrants. Consequently, there is a stronger focus on security that has far-reaching effects on Canadians and would-be Canadians, particularly immigrants and those in the process of immigrat- ing to Canada...

... neoconservative vision of imperial destiny abroad coupled with domestic economic deregulation — both ostensibly in the service of the inevitable march of democracy — as contrasted with more pragmatic programs that emphasized limitations enforced by expe- rience. In foreign policy terms this inevitably...