According to historian Paul Johnson, “"Thatcherism" was the most popular and successful way of running a country in the last quarter of the 20th century and into the 21st.” Turkey today should remember fondly British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who passed away at the Ritz Hotel in London, April 8, 2013. If not for her genius and ability to change a country weighed down by state-run enterprises that had led eventually to economical stagnation and despondence, where Turkey would be today? It is the power of Lady Thatcher’s ideas that turned Turkey into a thriving economy, which unquestionably Turkey is today. It is obvious that it took a fellow genius and kindred spiri...
The Cyprus crisis is a herald of a new world orderThe list of Europe’s "sick men" has been joined by Greek Cyprus. The prescribed methods of "treatment" threaten to create a precedent for the beginning of the collapse of the world capitalist system. But first things first.Cyprian IliadThe problems of the Cypriot economy began to be spoken about two years ago because of its attachment to the Greek financial system, which is not experiencing a time of hardship. The "oracles" of crises - Moody's and Fitch - downgraded the sovereign rating of the Republic of Cyprus, when Greek government bonds worth billions of euros bought by Cypriot banks became almost valueless.In November last ye...
The transboundary water sources are of great importance for Greece. 25% of the renewable water sources of the country is coming from four transboundary rivers which are placed on down coastal regions of Greece. Therefore, the watery activities in the up coastal countries are influencing Greece directly. The country has in total 5 transboundary rivers. All of these are located on North Greece. 4 of the transboundary rivers of the country are coming from Macedonia and Bulgaria (Axios, Strymonas, Nestos ve Evros). Aaos River, however, is flooding from Greece to Albania. Greece has also transboundary lakes region which it shares with Albania and Macedonia. 60% of the bas...
The main topics and subtopics of studies in the direction of terrorism phenomenon are represented by considerations such as objective conceptual frameworks of terror and terrorism concepts, causes of terrorism and its socio-psychological and socio-economic foundations, structure and action strategies of terrorist organizations. These issues in question are core/backbone of the research studies in the field of terrorism. On the other hand, the subject of "the reflections of terrorism into inter-state competition", which has been often on the agenda in recent years especially, has shown itself as a new sub-title in the field of terrorism studies. This new sub-title, ess...
By Joseph HammondSince Samuel Huntington unveiled his “Clash of Civilization” thesis in a 1993 Foreign Affairs article, a cottage industry of critiques have emerged to challenge it. Great thinkers, such as Amartya Sen, Amin Maalouf and Edward Said, have expended time and ink to refute Huntington’s controversial thesis. For the most part, these works have presented rationale critiques that focus on theoretical problems raised by Samuel Huntington’s board game like simplification of geopolitics and global history. Few of these critiques have, however, tried to counter Huntington’s argument with primary source research or been as readable as Ian Almond’s Two Fa...
