...Richard T. Sale Islam is on the march in the Middle East. For the past few years, in every Mideast election, the Islamic parties have won: in the Gaza Strip in 2006 and in Iraq and Tunisia in 2010. In 2011, they won again in Turkey and Morocco, and in Egypt the Islamist parties confirmed...

... 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...

... feared would rule against him. Under external pressure, he ended the emergency after he had secured the presidency and resigned from the military. In 2008, opposition parties won the parliamentary elections and formed a coalition government. They have not yet reinstated the dismissed judges. They forced...

...Walter W. Hill Realism tells us that states are unitary actors and foreign policy ends at the water’s edge. This essay questions this view in the context of recent US policy on Afghanistan. In early 2008, Senator Barack Obama won several early primary victories and gained a substantial lead...

... entirely by the League of Communists of Montenegro, several political parties and coalitions of parties competed for 125 seats.1 The election results did not much change this situation. The vast majority of seats — eighty-three — was won by the League of Communists of Mon- tenegro; a distant second...

... Africa National Union (KANU), also won a majority in the 210-seat Par- liament, despite the defeat of several senior KANU officials by little-known opposition candidates. The three major opposition parties — the Forum for Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (FORD-Kenya), the FORD-Asili...

.... 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...

... elections, Ennahda managed “to place the issue squarely before the government and the public.”5 Ben Ali permitted Ennahda to run independent candidates in the parliamentary elections, and they won over 15 percent of the national vote. He was alarmed when Ennahda won more votes than all secular...

..., Prime Minis- ter Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) won a landslide victory with 50 percent of the vote. In his victory speech, Erdo- gan announced his regional ambitions: “Believe me, Sarajevo won today as much as Istanbul, Beirut won as much as Izmir, Damascus won as much...

... reputation for wily stratagems. Further, Milosevic was a rival made desper- ate by his indictment on 27 May 1999 for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague. Kostunica won fair and square even though Milosevic’s aides rigged...

... was incorrectly reported. The party won twenty-six seats in the election. DOI 10.1215/10474552-2866102 ...

...: Princeton Univer- sity Press, 2007. 285 pages. ISBN 978-0-691-10272-6. $38.50. Reviewed by Sol Schindler. K. E. Fleming, professor of Mediterranean and modern Greek history at New York Uni- versity, has put together an intriguing book (it won the 2009 Runciman Award of the Anglo-Hellenic League...

...: Princeton Univer- sity Press, 2007. 285 pages. ISBN 978-0-691-10272-6. $38.50. Reviewed by Sol Schindler. K. E. Fleming, professor of Mediterranean and modern Greek history at New York Uni- versity, has put together an intriguing book (it won the 2009 Runciman Award of the Anglo-Hellenic League...

... an intriguing book (it won the 2009 Runciman Award of the Anglo-Hellenic League) on a difficult subject: the complicated relationships of Jews living in Greece with their country and with each other. During the reign of the Ottomans, when a person was asked what he was, he responded...

... in running for election or playing a role in government, this reluctance quickly disappeared and the party won the majority of seats in Egypt’s first elected parliament, in May 2012. Its leader, Mohammed Morsi, became president. He began to refashion Egyptian law and politics around Muslim...

... Quarterly: Fall 2004 with true concern for victims. The government is in constant communication with these groups and both profi ts by their expertise and skill and attempts to forge solutions to problems raised by them. Conclusion: The Battle Lost and Won To paraphrase Shakespeare’s...

... before tangling with the Jewish state. Defense Minister Ehud Barak echoed the sentiment: “We won in a big way. Hamas was dealt a blow it never imagined and will be quiet now for a long time.”7 It will take some time to fully understand who really won and lost in the Gaza war and what impact...

..., and managed an automobile company, was a minor player in Turk- ish politics and most certainly not the AP’s choice to head TOBB. Although he won, the party refused to recognize him as TOBB’s president and nom- inated its own candidate. During the ensuing standoff, the Turkish public grew to know Erbakan...

... issues has caused unease among non-­ Islamists following the party’s growing dominance. The party’s Islamic agenda increased tremendously after the AKP won its second term in gov- ernment in 2007, especially after the failed attempt by the military to stop the election of Abdullah Gul...

.... Joe Sestak served as congressman for Pennsylvania’s 7th District from 2006 to 2010. In 2010, he ran for the Senate and won the Democratic primary against Senator Arlen Specter. A Navy admiral, he has commanded an aircraft carrier battle group in Afghanistan, headed the Navy’s effort to address global...