INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, CULTURE AND GLOBAL FINANCE

Edited by Akis Kalaitzidis

ISBN: 978-960-9549-15-8, 280 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

1.	International Relations, Culture and Global Finance: An Introduction Akis Kalaitzidis	1
Part A: International Relations
2.	Culture, Ethnicity and International Relations Akis Kalaiztidis	13
3.	The OSCE as a Regional International Society Yiannis Stivachtis and Mike Habegger	35
4.	The Use of Foreign Law in Interpreting the U.S. Constitution James Staab and Donald Wallace	61
5.	Great Britain and Canada as Middle Powers, 1944-1949: Positive and Negative Approaches to a New World Power Status Martin Thornton	79
6.	US Diplomacy in the Islamic World after 9/11 Reza Simbar	91
7.	KOSOVO: Myth as a Driving Force in Serbian Politics Vladimir Matic	101
8.	Yesterday’s Tyrannicide, Today’s Terrorist? Historic Acts of ‘Terror’ in Islam and in the West in Light of the Contemporary Debates on Terrorism Bettina Koch	111
9.	The Autonomy Issue for the Chaldo-Assyrians in Iraq: A Realist Assessment Shak Bernard Hanish	127
10.	Islam in World Politics: Impacts and Implications Arsalan Ghorbani Sheikhneshin	143
Part B: Culture
11.	The Impact of the Russian speaking Israeli Citizens on the Present Russian Israeli Relationships Igor Delanoë	165
12.	Hope, Reality and Cuban Independence: Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés Micahel Sawyer	173
13.	Europe’s Relations to Christian Minorities of the Ottoman Empire – Seen through Egyptian Muslim Eyes Tonia Schüller	179
14.	Italian Mare Nostrum Policy and the Formulation of the Interwar Turkish Foreign Policy in Response Hazar Papucular	189
15.	Coloniality and Cultural Policy Kevin Mulcahy	199
16.	Morocco’s Regionalization “Roadmap” and the Western Sahara Yossef Ben-Meir	213

Part C: Finance
17.	Anti-Mafia Movements In Italy and Introduction of a New Phrase: ‘F.I.G.H.T’ (Futuristic Investments to Get Health Transformation) Barış Çayli	229
18.	The Politics of Hedge Fund Regulation, 1989-2009 David Felsen	239
19.	The Financial Crisis: The Liberal Answer Auke Leen	253
20.	The Revenues of the European Union: Past, Present, and Future Auke Leen	263
Conclusion Akis Kalaitzidis		275