MASTER OF ARTS IN DIPLOMATIC STUDIES Academic Year 2011 - 2012 DAMIAN IRIELE OZOEMENA - The Role of Organized Crime in Human Smuggling from the Sub-Sahara to the Mediterranean region. Focus on Malta and Italy. JOSEPH CUTAJAR - The Cyprus Conflict: What Prospects still Exist for a Peaceful Settlement? NICK MEYSMAN- The Efficacy of the Law on the Protection of Civilians in Modern Armed Conflicts DANIEL SAMMUT - The Emergence of Iran as an Influential Player in Middle East Politics and the Implications for the USA and its Allies in the Middle East. ALEXANDER ZAMMIT - Economic Relations between the European Union and Turkey BARBORKA ONDEJCIKOVA - The Impact of the EEAS on the National Diplomacy of Small EU Member States: Case study of the Slovak Republic. EMMA ZAMMIT - Gender and Security: The Role of Women in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. The Case of Lebanon. LEEANNE GALEA - Illegal Migration and Border (In) Security in the Mediterranean: The Case Study of Malta THOMAS ANTHONY MUSCAT - Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice: The Cases of Kosovo and Libya KEITH SPITERI - The Impact of the Algerian War on France: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism. CHRYSANTHI MARIA LAMPROU - The Aegean Continental Shelf: Greece v Turkey TIMOTHY FALZON - French Foreign Policy in Libya in 2011. KATHRYN ZAHRA - NATO’s Role within the Mediterranean region VICTOR TAMM - The Core and the Periphery: Will the Current Eurozone Crisis lead to a TwoSpeed Europe? Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC), University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080, MALTA Tel: +356 23402821 Fax: +356 21483091 E-mail: simon.bajada@um.edu.mt