URGENT NEED TO RETHINK CYPRUS by Rauf R.Denktas

In the light of a renewed interest in the Cyprus question, visits by diplomats of ‘interested countries' have increased noticeably. They all want to help the UN secretary-general in his mission of good offices which rests on Security Council resolution 367 of 12 March 1975, the relevant part of which reads:.......

LEBANON AND THE PEACE PROCESS: THE CASE FOR GREATER REALISM
by  Paul A. Jureidiri

The initial dismay and disappointment in Washington and a number of Arab capitals which greeted Likud's victory in the recent Israeli elections has given way to a growing sense of doom and foreboding as tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbours have increased .......

RUSSIA AND THE GULF by Stephan Blank

Observers expected that Yevgeny Primakov, who replaced Andrei Kozyrev as Russia's foreign minister in early 1996, would activate Russian policy in the Gulf. Recent reports seemingly have confirmed this expectation. Russia has signed energy agreements with Iraq worth up to $10 million that are to go into effect once UN sanctions are lifted.......

THE MEDITERRANEAN PACT: A FRAMEWORK FOR SOFT SECURITY CO-OPERATION by Fred Tanner

The Mediterranean region increasingly acquires its own distinct political identity. With the end of the Cold War the region has lost its East-West compartmentalisation and security questions have become increasingly indivisible, regardless of diverse sub-regional features......

BLACK SEA ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION (BSEC) AS A CONFIDENCE-BUILDING MEASURE by Nicolae Micu

On 25 June 1992, heads of state or government from the six Black Sea coastal nations–Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine–as well as from five other countries situated in the general area of the historic Pontus Euxinus–Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece......

DEVELOPMENT IN MANAGING TERRORISM IN TURKEY by Nur Bilge Criss

In the recent past, the word ‘ethnic' ceased to mean ‘gentiles' and came to be substituted for ‘nation' when convenient, as in the case of group affiliations in former Yugoslavia, or ‘religion' in the case of Bosnian Muslims, or ‘race' in the case of Spanish or Black Americans....

INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: POPE JOHN PAUL II AND YUNUS EMRE
by Selçuk Korkud

One of the important acts of the Second Vatican Council, convened by the late great Pope John XXIII “in order to bring the Catholic Church up to date,” concerned Muslims and the Inter-religious Dialogue. For the first time the Church addressed thus the followers of Islam. In their Nostra Aetate III statement the Council members expressed their desire to move to a new era of co-operation with these words:........

BOOK REVIEW

"IL FUTURO DELL'EUROPA:LE SUE RADICI CRISTIANE (THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: ITS CHRISTIAN ROOTS)"  
Fontana, Sandro (Ed.) Venice: Marsillio Editori S. p.A. pp. 150.

Anna Masala
At the beginning of the book, Sandro Fontana examines the present situation in Europe and those Muslim countries which would like to be part of it and whose citizens constitute the big post­war migratory flow. .....