NO. 9

WASHINGTON, DC—The American Hellenic Institute Foundation (AHIF) is pleased to announce the release of the twelfth volume of our policy journal, the American Journal of Contemporary Hellenic Issues. It is available gratis at the AHIF Policy Journal.

In his foreword to the current issue, Editor Dan Georgakas discusses the grave threat Turkey poses for Greece and Cyprus in 2021. He writes, “Turkey’s threats in the Eastern Mediterranean continue to escalate. In the past two years, Ankara has occupied northern Syria at the expense of the Kurds, has militarily intervened in Libya, and militarily assisted Azerbaijan in ousting Armenians from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh border region.” He goes on to discuss the related threats being directed at Greece and Cyprus and the weak response of the EU, NATO, and the U.S. to these provocations. A number of essays in this issue reflect on the implications of this crisis for American foreign policy and Greek Americans. 

Other major issues addressed in essays, poetry, and memoirs are the nature of Greek America and its present profile. Georgakas ends his foreword by noting the AHI Foundation has become co-publisher with Queens College of The Journal of Modern Hellenism, a peer-review scholarly journal published since 1984. The JMH annually publishes essays dealing with the history, institutions, and culture of modern Greece from its origins to the present. This includes studies of Greek America and other Diaspora communities. The first volume of the JMH in which the AHI Foundation is co-publisher will appear in the summer of 2022.

This new volume of the American Journal of Contemporary Hellenic Issues now available includes the following:

• Ankara’s Neo-Ottomanism Defies the Rule of Law by Panayiotis Diamadis

• NATO and the EU: It does take two to Tango! by Rear Admiral (ret.) George Tsogkas

• China’s Entry into Greece: Hellenism as an Ideal Worthy of “Protected Designation of Origin” by George Stratigakis

• The American Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Greek Proclamation of the Messenian Senate (1821) by Nicholas G. Karambelas

• Eugene T. Rossides (1927-2020): His Place in History by Klearchos A. Kyriakides

Emerging Voices of Greek America

• Hydrocarbon Relations: An Eastern-Mediterranean Case Study on Cypriot Fuel Discoveries by Vasili Ioannidis, Harshita Jalluri, Kenneth Larson, and Gabriella Valderrama

• Moving the Masses: The Impact of MENA Migrants on EU Migrant Policy: 2014-2015 by Matthew Kokkinos

• The Search for Greek American Identity by Anthony Katsounis

• My Hoosier Greek Writing Journey by Annamarie Buonocore

Poets on Being Greek and American

• Thessaloniki by Nicholas Samaras

• Zoe Se Mas by Perry Nicholas

• Astoria by Nicos Alexiou

Book Reviews

• Gonda Van Steen. Adoptions, Memory and Cold War Greece—Kid pro quo? Reviewed by Van Coufoudakis

• Robert Shenk and Sam Koktzoglou (eds.), The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries—Naval Commanders Report and Protest Death Marches and Massacres in Turkey’s Pontus Region, 1921-1922, Reviewed by Van Coufoudakis

• Terry Stavridis, Tales from the Last Days of Anatolia, Reviewed by Penelope Karageorge

The AHIF wishes to emphasize that the American Journal of Contemporary Hellenic Issues is a forum for varying ideas and voices, not a prescriptive agenda. All unsolicited queries and essays are taken seriously. Our goal remains a healthy American policy regarding the Eastern Mediterranean and a vibrant Greek America that helps inform such a policy. Authors are encouraged to submit completed articles to Yola Pakhchanian via email at: [email protected]

For submission guidelines and publishing information please visit our Web site at: http://www.ahifworld.org/become-an-author.html or following the link at www.AHIworld.org.

The American Hellenic Institute Foundation, Inc., (AHIF), established in 1975, is a 501(c) (3) non-profit tax-exempt educational and research organization and is the first “think tank” devoted exclusively to the study of the issues confronting the Greek American community.