... Affairs, Inc. 2007 Turkey’s Constraining Position on Western Reform Initiatives in the Middle East Aysegul Sever Turkey is the Middle Eastern country with the longest running struggle for democratization and with the closest ties with the West via...

... that is free of narrow nationalistic agendas. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Ivo Josipovi\#263; is president of the Republic of Croatia. The Western Balkans: New Politics for a New Age Ivo Josipovic´ History is not always pleasant or easy. It has rarely been...

...Yossef Ben-Meir King Mohammed VI of Morocco has announced a national regionalization plan that includes the Western Sahara. Morocco's intention is to regionalize (or, essentially, decentralize) decision-making authority and management in socioeconomic development, political affairs, the judicial...

... on the Western Sahara Conflict F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam Conflict with broad regional and international repercussions has raged since 1975 between Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saquiet el-Hamra and Rio de Oro...

... from Frank Cass. Subregional Dynamics in the Western Mediterranean Stephen C. Calleya The terror attacks of 11 September 2001 triggered a sudden chain reaction of fear that raised awareness overnight of the necessity to rethink the con...

... in Morocco, and also president of the nonprofit Diversity Institute, which promotes community development and reconciliation inside the United States. Creating a New Era of Islamic-Western Relations by Supporting Community Development...

..., Canada, and is affiliatedwith the Center for Peace and Disarmament at the Liu Institute for GlobalIssues, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Small Arms and Regional Security in the Western Mediterranean: Refl ections on European Views...

... of the Matter”: The UN and the Western Sahara Dispute Jacob A. Mundy Since 1988, the United Nations has been actively involved in the Western Sahara dispute between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Western Saharan liberation movement known as the Frente POLISARIO. Over...

... Balkans. He is the author of the forthcoming Extending the European Zone of Peace: Constructing Peace in the Balkans (London: I. B. Tauris). From the Western Balkans to the Greater Balkans Area: The External Conditioning of “Awkward” and “Integrated” States...

.... The supposedly successful Western missions merely created two economically and politically dysfunctional wards of the international community. In 2017, ethnic tensions are rising again throughout the region. US leaders need to face the sobering reality that Washington’s previous meddling has brought neither...

...Patrick N. Theros The Arab Awakening (also known as the Arab Spring) caught the Western world, and even most experts, by surprise. A fuller understanding of how the peoples of the Middle East perceive their history and their relationship with the Western world—from their own perspective...

...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...

... because it refuses to place itself in conflict with Western civilization and instead positions Turkey as a bridge between Western and Muslim civilizations. To this extent, Strategic Depth may be described as a conservative interpretation of Turkish Eurasianism. Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu is assistant...

...Geoffrey Wright The attempt of the Georgian government to reform and restructure its military forces in the past ten years demonstrates the difficulty of conducting Western-style defense reform in postconflict states, which have not seen a formal end to armed conflict. Western-style reforms were...

...Kadir Akyuz; Steve Hess This essay examines the impact of Turkey’s growing international links to China, Russia, and other non-Western powers on democratic backsliding by the administration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The essay finds that China’s and Russia’s growing engagement with Turkey since...

...Stephen Blank; Younkyoo Kim Many see the western Balkans as the back yard of Europe. As the promise and reality of regional economic integration has weakened, however, Russia has returned to the area to play its historically important regional role. In the Balkans, a Russian or Russifying project...

...John Sitilides The long-standing Cyprus question is deeply influenced and shaped by the complex political and geostrategic environment of the broader Mediterranean region. In addition, Cyprus is key to European and Western power and influence in the greater Middle East and of increasing interest...

... development model rooted in decentralization to situations with powerful regional implications: in Iraq, Palestine, and the Western (Moroccan) Sahara. The engine for sustainable human development depends on local communities and neighborhoods identifying, planning, and implementing the socioeconomic...

... Turkey's relations with its Western allies. Ahmet T. Kuru is associate professor of political science at San Diego State University. He is the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey , and the co-editor (with Alfred Stepan) of Democracy, Islam...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Western leaders portray the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a league of democratic nations as well as a security alliance. Although the organization tolerated illiberal members during the Cold War, it would be more than a little embarrassing to have an outright autocracy...