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, “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. The hydrocarbon fields belonging to Cyprus are challenged with warships that even intimidate EU drilling companies. Moreover, Turkey makes claims on various Greek islands and steadily moves to establish Turkishoccupied northern Cyprus as an independent state. According to Turkey’s Blue Homeland Doctrine, some 152 islands, inlets, and rock formations currently under Greek rule are disputable.​”

Here is a list of the articles.

​SPRING 2021 ISSUE:

  • Introduction by Dan Georgakas
  • 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

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.
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