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The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism

The American Passport in Turkey offers readers an in-depth analysis regarding American citizenship’s transnational meanings and ideals which are...

The Grand Design: The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture

Richmond brings together the realist, liberal, and even critical paradigms that the IR theory literature puts in opposing camps. With its intense...

Military Innovation in Türkiye: An Overview of the Post-Cold War Era

This book will contribute to readers in various ways. The students of international relations who will read this book will eventually realize that...

Water Resources of Turkey

This publication is suitable for all members of the country’s water communities, including authorities, institutions, water users, academics, and...

The Social Lives of Numbers: Statistics, Reform and the Remaking of Rural Life in Turkey

In terms of narration, the book is written simply and understandably. A comparative approach with official documents and statements and a more...

Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security

There are some criticisms, which should be considered, about the book. The most important shortcoming is about the imperial legacy that Türkiye has...

The Rise of Blockchains: Disrupting Economies and Transforming Societies

Blockchain is a relatively new technology and has its own weaknesses. DeFi, or decentralized finance, is one such area where there are numerous...

Russia’s 2022 War against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU: Context, Diplomacy, and Law

The most interesting aspect of the book is that it was published a short time after the start of the war in February 2022. This is a normal case...

Everyday Boundaries, Borders, and Post-Conflict Societies

Throughout the book, Summa demonstrates a healthy contrarian streak. She tries to make a less ‘statist’ and territorialized analysis....

How ISIS Fights?: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt

How ISIS Fights provides a satisfying explanation for ISIS’ expansion and endurance in different regions by focusing on the Iraq, Syria, Libya, and...

The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities

An equally problematic aspect of the book is its mere focus on the 19th century to explore the roots of the present conflicts in the region, which...

Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies

Fraternal Enemies: Israel and The Gulf Monarchies can be a useful book for anyone interested in the ties between the Gulf countries, Iran, the...

Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East

Promised Land is an exhaustive work that focuses on the often neglected early British encounter in the Middle East. Though the vast amount of...

Imperial Resilience: The Great War’s End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations

One of the ultimate matters the book makes the reader reconsider is that one cannot think of the Anatolian independence struggle independently of...

EU-Turkey Relations: A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy?

This book, which analyzes the EU’s foreign policy between the years 2014-2019 and its relations with Türkiye, contains positive aspects as well as...

Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the Edge

Turkey between the United States and Russia distinguishes itself from other studies in the literature by simultaneously considering tripartite...

The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties: Ideology in Practice

The book enables the reader to compare the practice of an ideology in six countries. For each country, a meaningful discourse analysis for the...

China’s Economic and Political Presence in the Middle East and South Asia

This book presents a holistic perspective of China’s presence in the discussed countries. Even readers unfamiliar with Chinese foreign policy and...

EU, Turkey, and Counter-Terrorism: Fighting the PKK and ISIS

The EU-Türkiye related literature mostly concentrates on the EU’s expansion, its conditionality on Türkiye’s democratization, and the strategic...

Between Empire and Nation: Muslim Reform in the Balkans

Between Empire and Nation provides a coherent understanding of the events, the people, intellectual ideas, and initiatives that defined the reform...

The Fourth Ordeal: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1968-2018

The book tries to frame the current predicament the Muslim Brotherhood is experiencing within the internal conflict between two schools of thought:...

A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy

A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy is a fresh, timely, and groundbreaking work for readers and academics interested in the current...

Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts

This volume, Justice and Leadership, is a compendium of legal history in the early Islamic period with a focus on the concepts and practices in the...

The Faces of Contemporary Populism in Western Europe and the US

Making a remarkable contribution to understanding various degrees of contemporary populism, it helps to understand how populism as an ideology is...

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