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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...

Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean

Sea Change is a deeply researched book full of information on textile production and consumption in the Ottoman Empire from 1400-1800. For the...

Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society: The Case of Natural Gas

The book provides major contributions to the literature, including theoretical and empirical. In the literature geopolitics, economics, and...

East Asia’s Strategic Advantage in the Middle East

East Asia’s Strategic Advantage in the Middle East succeeds in presenting an overview of the opportunities for both regions to forgea deeper...

The Rise of the GCC States and Turkey: Convergent and Divergent Regional Agendas

Apart from the aforementioned omission, the book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars interested in understanding the continuous...

Turkey’s Security: New Threats, Indigenous Solutions, and Overseas Stretch

Turkey’s Security: New Threats, Indigenous Solutions and Overseas Stretch is remarkably thorough. Even readers completely unfamiliar with Türkiye’s...

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

The New Map offers a detailed perspective on energy, geopolitics, great power competition, and the environment by connecting historical information...

Competing Ideologies in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic: Selected Writings of Islamist, Turkist, and Westernist Intellectuals

Competing Ideologies in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic should be on the reading list of students and academics interested in...

When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?

The book’s holistic approach to tackling the matter at hand benefits a wide audience, from students to policymakers. GCC nationals in favor of...

Cyberwars in the Middle East

Cyberwars in the Middle East is a study that spans a decade of cybercorporations in the Middle East, presented as an investigation of several cases...

Turkish-Russian Relations: Prospects and Challenges

Although the book promises an exciting contribution to the literature on Turkish-Russian relations, it remains inadequate in fulfilling its aims...

Türkiye as a Stabilizing Power in an Age of Turmoil

The clear structure and reader-friendly language make Türkiye as a Stabilizing Power in an Age of Turmoil an easily comprehensible trove of...

Truths and Lies in the Middle East: Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist, 1952-2012

The New Map offers a detailed perspective on energy, geopolitics, great power competition, and the environment by connecting historical information...

Small State Security Dilemma: Kuwait after 1991

Despite its shortcomings, Small Security Dilemma: Kuwait after 1991is worth reading to augment the scope of studies on security, small states and...

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: What War Does to Women

The strength of the book lies in the fact that the author deftly contextualizes and explains the use of rape by men ‘as the easiest weapon’ 2022...

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