What is so Good About The Sopranos?
Enes Erbay* The boundaries between television drama and cine-ma have blurred in recent years. Tim Van Patten, the director of The Sopranos, once said “This show [The Sopranos] is like...
NAIROBI “needs to feel the positive effects of globalisation…”
Fatih Eren* Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, who hosts the world’s biggest refugee camps, has been examined in this volume. Kenya is the most developed and the most influential...
Interview with Dr. Alexandros Nafpliotis
K. Kaan Renda* Many Greeks believe that the dichotomy between a Greek civil service, which is perceived as slow, well-paid and overstretched and on the other hand of a private...
The Missing Leader
Nicholas Miller* nicholasjsmiller@gmail.com Where is Jiang? As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was celebrating its 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011 one of the key things that fixated China Watchers...
Conflict in the “SOUTH CHINA SEA” Lessons from the Dene peoples and the Arctic Conflict?
Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon* Foreword Before we engage this enthralling subject, I should like to point out an added detail to the works cited in this paper. This is obviously not...
Russia-Georgia Relations: Among Illusions and Visions
Zaur Shiriyev* Leaving public opinion aside, the leadership of all post-Soviet countries enjoy reasonably amicable relations with Russia The exception is Georgia, whose ongoing conflict with Russia is recognized as...
Libya: Human Security Challenges
Prof. Alan Hunter* Human Security conceptualization analyses the interface between security, development and intervention. Traditionally, ‘security’ mostly referred to the security of nation-states in the context of military conflicts with...
The Mistral Warship Deal: What’s in for France and Russia?
Assoc. Prof. Richard Rousseau* After two years of negotiations, Russia and France signed a treaty of military cooperation on June 17, 2011 under which two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, together...
Post-Gaddafi Reconstruction of Libya
Alpaslan Özerdem* On 19 August 2011, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, Vice-Chairman of National Transition Council (NTC), the rebel group fighting against the Colonel Gaddafi regime in Libya announced that The zero...
A New War on Terror?
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim* Just when the threat of Islamist terrorism seemed to be successfully suppressed, the actions of Breivik bring awareness of the evil engendered by other extremist ideologies. When...
