...Anthony N. Celso Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Anthony N. Celso is assistant professor of government at Valley Forge College in Pennsylvania. Spain’s Dual Security Dilemma: Strategic Challenges of Basque and Islamist Terror during the Aznar and Zapatero...

... model in their prosecution of Basque and Islamist militants. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2009 Anthony N. Celso is associate professor of government and history at Valley Forge Military College, Wayne, Pa. Spanish Post-3/11 Antiterror Policy: Zapatero’s Tyranny...

... to be working. Very few prognosticators of the Spanish political scene gave Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party much chance in gaining political power during Aznar’s Popular Party rule.11 The Madrid attacks changed the political landscape dramatically. The ter- rorist assault (thirteen...

..., “Spanish Security Dilemmas: Strategic Challenges of Basque and Islamist Ter- ror during the Aznar and Zapatero Eras,” Mediterranean Quarterly 17, no. 1 (2006): 121 – 41. 17. José María Irujo, “La actividad ‘yihadista’ va en aumento y sus presos preventivos superan ya a los de ETA,” El País, 29 July...

... increasingly divided between Left and Right, slowly eroding the Pact of Forgetting until the PSOE administration of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero enacted the Law of His- torical Memory on 31 October 2007. The Law of Historical Memory effectively ended the Pact of Forgetting, although...

... elites that Madrid constitutes a weak, but highly reliable, partner. Notwithstanding this limitation, President José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was the only European leader invited to the 2011 Boao Forum for Asia, a global meeting that focuses on economic growth. Finally, it is worth mentioning...

... EU Membership: A Clash of Security Cultures,” Middle East Policy 9, no. 2 (2002). 144  Mediterranean Quarterly: Fall 2007 minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero colaunched the so-called Alliance of Civilizations, which aimed at reducing tensions and improving understanding among different...

.../2008, Madrid, available at www.realinstitutoelcano.org. See also, inter alia, Peru Egurbide, “Zapatero y Prodi asumen el plán mediterráneo de Sarkozy,” El País, 6 December 2007; Luís Bassets, “Des- cubrir el Mediterráneo,” El País, 20 December 2007; R. M. De Rituerto, “Bruselas hace suya la...

... Europe. One strong indication of this new civilizational orientation was Erdogan’s move to cosponsor with Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero the Alliance of Civilizations initiative launched by UN secretary- general Kofi Annan in 2005. In this context Turkey assumed the role of rep...