Current AHIF American Journal Of Contemporary Hellenic Issues 

AHI Foundation Student Foreign Policy Trip

In his introduction to the current issue, editor Dan Georgakas writes, “The new year promises to be perilous for Greece and Cyprus as well as being a challenge to American foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean. Recep Erdogan’s Turkey is intent on using any means needed to obtain territories and economic rights belonging to Greece and Cyprus. To that end, Turkey does not recognize the UN’s Law of the Seas, scoffs at the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) assigned to Greece and Cyprus, and states that the Lausanne Treaty (1923), which set present borders, is invalid.”

Here is a list of the articles.
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• Cyprus Under Threat: Erdogan’s Revisionism and International Indifference by Van Coufoudakis, Ph.D.
• Don’t Count on Trump for Greece by Amb. Patrick Theros
• Unifying the Parthenon Marbles by George Vardas
• Greek American Youth: Multiplying Routes to Hellenism as Cultural Policy by Yiorgos Anagnostou
• Greek Music and Me by Elenis Sakellis

Emerging Voices of Greek America:

• The Midas T Project by Adam Hadjipateras
• Refugees: The Unlikely Partner in Greek Economic Recovery by Corinne Candilis
• Greek Dancing from the Point of View of a Millennial Second Generation Greek-American by Kristina Koinoglou

Three Poets on Social Issues

• Refugees by Yiorgos Chouliaras
• Yannis Ritsos by Dean Kostos
• Mountain Kurds by Karen Melander-Magoon

Book Review:

• Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924. Reviewed by Alexander Kitroeff
• Christos P. Ioannides, Cyprus Under British Colonial Rule—Culture, Politics, and the Movement toward Union with Greece, 1878-1954 reviewed by Constantine P. Danopoulos.

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AHIF Publications

The Rule of Law Lobby: Grassroots Mobilization and the U.S. Arms Embargo on Turkey - 1974-1978

$15.00

The Rule of Law Lobby: Grassroots Mobilization and the U.S. Arms Embargo on Turkey - 1974-1978 by Van Coufoudakis, Ph. D. and Serge Hadji, Esq. focuses on the grassroots mobilization in the Greek American community following Turkey’s illegal invasion and occupation of Cyprus on July 20, 1974 through the lifting of the U.S. Arms Embargo in 1978. 

The mobilization events highlighted in the annotated Chronology record how Greek Americans reacted to the invasion of the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974. In addition to protesting vociferously and providing humanitarian assistance, the Greek American Community gradually coalesced into a lobby under the newly unfurled banner of the “Rule of Law.” This led to the remarkable accomplishment of cutting off military aid to Turkey under an Arms Embargo imposed by the US Congress.

The annotated Chronology summarizes the activities of the “Rule of Law” lobby from its genesis in 1974 following the Turkish invasion to the lifting of the Arms Embargo on Turkey late in 1978. The chronicle is based primarily on political reporting – all from public sources – on the ongoing developments, and contemporaneous illustrations. A brief annotated Bibliography supplements the historical record. 

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Kissinger & Cyprus: A Study in Lawlessness by Gene Rossides

$20.00

The American Hellenic Institute Foundation (AHIF) is pleased to announce its newest publication, Kissinger & Cyprus: A Study in Lawlessness by Gene Rossides and a Foreword by Professor Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University, and Editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. This book explores four themes. The first is Kissinger's illegal actions and responsibility for the Cyprus tragedy of 1974 and its aftermath. The second is Cyprus’s importance as a strategic, economic, and political asset to Europe and the United States. The third theme is Turkey's actions as a rogue state, its violations of United States and international laws, its history of unreliability as an ally and its moves towards Islamic fundamentalism. The fourth theme is the vital importance to the United States of absolute allegiance to the rule of law. The concluding chapter discusses the need for the United States to redress the situation in Cyprus by pressuring Turkey to withdraw its troops and settlers from Cyprus.

The State Department ignores the role played by Kissinger in Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and fails to acknowledge that the Cyprus crisis would have been avoided had Kissinger followed the policy recommendations put forth by the career foreign service officials, Thomas Boyatt and his colleagues, in 1974.

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AHIF Future of Hellenism in America Conference

Each year the conference is held in a different U.S. city to spread the seeds of ideas generated at the conference, and to obtain feedback from the local Greek American community on various challenges facing Hellenism in America. Conference speakers identified key challenges facing the Greek American community today and offered suggestions for the future.