Southeast Europe Publications
EU Enlargement and Transatlantic Relations
Jul 07, 2011October 2007- (Working paper for project on "The US - EU Partnership: Enlargement and Change.") Both sides of the Atlantic have spent the better part of the past decade reassessing, reinventing, reconsidering, and revisiting the Transatlantic alliance, its relevance, its crisis, and its agenda. This paper attempts to analyze the continuing need for examining the relevance of Transatlantic relations. more
Don't Forget Cyprus
Jul 07, 2011June 2003: On March 1 of this year, the U.S.-Turkish strategic partnership came to an end when the Turkish parliament denied the 4th Infantry Division access to Turkey. In time, a new U.S.-Turkish relationship will evolve, but it will not be what it was, nor will it happen automatically.
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Greece's New Geopolitical Environment
Jul 07, 2011Viewed over the past decade, and looking toward the next, a key, defining feature of the geopolitical environment as seen from Greece is the progressive enlargement of the country’s “strategic space.” The relevant geopolitical landscape is now much wider than in the past, a result of Greece’s continued Europeanization, and a product of globalization in its various forms. The country’s strategic outlook is less distinctive and more European in character, and as Europe’s geopolitical horizons have expanded, so have those of Greece. more
September 11 and the Persistence of Regional Conflicts
Jul 07, 2011Nov./Dec. 2001 - Historically, when a major international conflict breaks out in the world, the terms of every other conflict--including lesser, more localized disputes that are important to the people involved, but obscure to most outsiders--instantly change. America's battle against terrorism certainly ranks as a major international conflict, and every other war zone looks different as a result. more
Fighting Organized Crime and Terrorism for Security and Stability in the Balkans
Jul 07, 2011September 2000- The following was excerpted from remarks made by the minister at a Policy Forum in Washington organized by the Western Policy Center. more
Turkey's Western Destiny
Jul 07, 2011April 24, 2007- (Published in the Wall Street Journal, Page A19) By midnight tomorrow, Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan will decide the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) candidate for president of Turkey. Ten days ago, in an unprecedented gathering demonstrating the polarization gripping that country, hundreds of thousands marched in Ankara against Mr. Erdogan choosing himself. more
Keep The NATO Flag In Greece
Jul 07, 2011January 2003- In this new age of international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, states a senior NATO official, "Turkey has replaced Germany as the keystone state for European security. NATO's Mediterranean countries, headed by Greece, follow Turkey as the new 'frontline' states." The paradigm shift in the alliance's strategic thinking reveals a new vitality and purpose within NATO, as the realities of emergent and potentially catastrophic threats move the defense debate from deterrence to pro-active security measures. more
Turkey, the United States and the Delusion of Geopolitics
Jul 07, 2011Autumn 2006: Article published in Survival Magazine (vol. 48, no. 3):
Turkey and Turkish–US relations have been prisoners of a narrow concept
of geopolitics. The key questions are not geographic – whether Turkey is a
bridge or a barrier, a flank or a front – but how Turkey will act, and whether
Turkish and American policies are convergent or divergent. more
The War on Global Terrorism: Implications for the Eastern Mediterranean
Jul 07, 2011October 2001 - On September 11, war was thrust upon the Western world in a calculated and evil manner. Hijacked civilian airliners, loaded with innocent people, were cruelly used as instruments of war to kill thousands of unsuspecting Americans and nearly 2,000 citizens from over 60 other countries, including Greece and Turkey. more
The Balkan Stability Pact: A Crucial Test for Europe
Jul 07, 2011September 2000 - The bureaucracy and rhetoric surrounding the year-old Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe have grown apace, but there have been few tangible results so far. Western nations and eastern Europe alike are poised, waiting to see if the pact can live up to its goals and promises. more
