Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East Book

	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
	The Realist Chessboard	1
	The Structure of the Book	5
	Globalisation and European Integration	8
2	The New Geo-politics of Gas and Oil	11
	The 1990s: Years of Pandemonium	13
	Conflicting Interests: Oil and Gas Projects in Eurasia	16
	End of the Cold War?	27
3	Scarface Politics	34
	NATO's 'New Strategic Concept'	37
	Problems of 'Variable Geometry'	39
	Political, Moral and Legal Conundrums: The Kosovo War	44
	US Successes	50
	Muslims, Christians and Foreign Policy	54
	The Limits of NATO	58
4	Near and Middle Eastern Dilemmas	63
	The 'Northern Tier' and the Greek-Turkish Dimension	64
	The Arab-Israeli Conflict	67
	Conflict over Cyprus	71
	Towards Summer 1974 and After	76
5	Turkish Questions for the West	81
	A Democracy Guided by the Military and Used as Such	83
	The US and the 'Turkish Pivot'	91
	Summing up the Realist Game	95
6	Eurasian Gambles over Cyprus' EU Prospects	99
	EU-Cyprus Relations and Germany's Primacy	101
	US Qualified Support to Germany and Greece	106
	Greek and Turkish Arguments	109
	Military Diplomacy by the 'Turkish Pivot'	111
7	Conclusion	116
	US Policy in Eurasia: An Assessment	116
	A Trans-Eurasian Convention Underwritten by Eurasian Powers	120
	Re-conquering America	125
	Notes	129
	Bibliography	157
	Index	169
	Map 1: Oil and gas pipelines	16
	Map 2: The Enlarged European Union	36