... happened to his beloved Hellenes and to him personally. His journey took him from a war-ravaged Greek island, Kephalonia, to America, where he discovered himself and his Hellenic roots through the study of his- tory, with help from Adamantios Koraes, an enlightened and inspired Greek scholar on whom...

...Vasil Tuporkoski Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Vasil Tuporkoski is professor of international law at the University of Skopje. Is the War in Kosovo the Last Balkan War? Vasil Tuporkoski The dissolution of former Yugoslavia, having taken a radical...

...Vincent M. Cannistraro Richard A. Clarke: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terrorism . New York: Free Press, 2004. 304 pages. ISBN 0-7432-6024-4$27.00. Mediterranean Affairs,Inc. 2004 Vincent M. Cannistraro is former chief of counterintelligence operations and analysis...

...Zafer Kizilkaya This essay first examines how Lebanese Hezbollah's wars have changed the content and saliency of its several identities. It then focuses on the role of these identities on the group's moral conception of using force. The analysis includes Hezbollah's conflicts against Israel and its...

...Symeon Giannakos Symeon Giannakos is professor of political science and director of the masters program in international relations at Salve-Regina University. Watts Larry L. : With Friends Like These: The Soviet Bloc’s Clandestine War against Romania . Bucharest, Romania...

...Van Coufoudakis Van Coufoudakis is professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University-Purdue University. Blytas George C. : The First Victory: Greece in the Second World War . River Vale, NJ : Cosmos Publishing Company and the American Hellenic Institute Foundation...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Western news media outlets have paid considerable attention to the civil war in Syria, but much of the coverage is simplistic and melodramatic. Too many accounts portray the conflict as a Manichean struggle between the evil, brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad and noble freedom...

...Sotiris Rizas Greece’s relationship with the Soviet Union was burdened by the Greek civil war, which was closely related to the outbreak of the Cold War in the Near East in 1946–47. The collapse of Greece’s parliamentary regime in 1967 arrested a process toward détente undergone by practically...

...Magnus Nordenman The “Global War on Terror” came to dominate US foreign policy in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The effort served as a guiding light for how the United States interacted with friends, allies, and adversaries and deeply influenced US priorities around the globe, in general...

...Filippo Focardi The Italian national memory has still not come to terms with the responsibilities of Benito Mussolini's Italy for the Axis war of 1940 – 43, which Italy fought on the side of Nazi Germany. It has also not come to terms with the serious war crimes Italy committed in the occupied...

... at Georgetown University, where he specializes in Anglo-American diplomacy during the Cold War. Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Thatcher and Reagan Atlantic Alliance Lebanon War Operation Peace for Galilee Margaret Thatcher’s Diplomacy and the 1982 Lebanon War...

...Robbie Gramer Robbie Gramer is associate director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council. Otte T. G. : July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . 555 pages . ISBN 978-1-107...

...Anthony N. Celso Little has been written about the Syrian Civil War and its relationship to the 1980s revolutionary period. This essay examines this historical connection and emphasizes the unique features that drive the current rebellion. The essay has five sections. First, it lays out...

..., success in the midst of a vicious sectarian civil war. Syrian Civil War Turkey ISIS PYD Assad Obama Doctrine PKK Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2017 Spyridon Plakoudas is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Macedonia. He previously taught at Panteion...

... and numerous articles on the Middle East. Nation Building in a War Zone: The US Record in Iraq, 2003 – 2007 Mohamed A. El-Khawas When the United States invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, the Pentagon had not yet drawn...

...” Front in the War on Terror Anthony N. Celso It is jihad for the liberation of Palestine, all Palestine, as well as every other home for Islam, from Andalucía to Iraq. The whole world is open for us!  — Fernand Reinares...

... Associates. The Long War Vincent Cannistraro and Philip Giraldi After five years of a declared “war on terrorism,” the Bush administration has failed to devise a coherent and comprehensive strategy to deal with political violence. There have been no repetitions...

..., Germany, and Spain. He is currently a partner in Cannistraro Associates, a security consultancy located in McLean, Virginia. Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Examining the Case for War: Allegations of Iranian Interference in Iraq...

...Ronen Yitzhak Copyright 2008 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2008 Ronen Yitzhak is professor of history at Western Galilee College, Israel. The Question of Arab Solidarity in the 1948 War: Political Interests versus Military Considerations...

... Pacific Center for Security Studies or any other department or agency of the US government. The Post-9/11 American Conundrum: How to Win the War of Ideas in the World of Islam Ehsan Ahrari In America’s global war on terrorism, phrases like “the war of ideas...