The Syrian Mayhem Quo Vadis?
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Spring 2016
The Syrian Crisis, the bloodiest front of the Arab uprisings and one of the main determinants of policies of regional and global powers, has been dominating international politics for the last five years. Having caused the death of more than 300 thousand civilians and forced relocation of more than 7 million Syrians, it is one of the direst international problems that the global powers must deal with.
Commentaries
The Syrian uprising took the regional powers by surprise and was able to disrupt the regional...
Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, sought to chart out an independent course...
Jabhat al-Nusra has long been one of the most militarily effective armed actors against the...
The uprising against the decades-long Assad rule in Syria started as a series of peaceful...
What started as a peaceful protest in the spring of 2011 soon developed into one of the most...
Articles
The current research has the purpose of analyzing Turkey’s approach toward Latin America and the...
This article focuses on the coverage of Gezi Park protests in the mainstream western media. It...
When considering the problems of media freedom in Turkey, two types of pressures come to the...
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This article analyses the EU’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, both inside the EU and in...
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Review Article
Towards a Truly Global IR Theory?: The Middle East and the Upcoming Debate
In 2015, the philosopher Hamid Dabashi published a book with the provocative title, Can Non-Europeans Think?. Over its pages Dabashi echoes authors from what have been labelled “post-colonialism” approaches (from founding fathers like Frantz Fanon to Edward Said, to provocative interlocutors like Gayatri Spivak and Walter Mignolo), and questions the contemporary “regime of knowledge.” According to Dabashi, this by-product of modernity/colonialism silences the voices and experiences of many “subaltern” thinkers whose work is dismissed, neglected and delegitimized.
Book Reviews
Recently, there has been a growing body of literature on the multifaceted relationship between...
The capitalist development process has been criticized by many scholars due to its questionable...
An avowed atheist, Sam Harris, and Nawaz Maajid, former extremist, and founder of the...
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Emily Greble’s Sarajevo, 1942-1945: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Hitler’s Europe is an...
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There is no doubt that the 1990s were the years when the concept of human security came into...
It would be understandable, after four years of devastating civil war, to assume the title of...
In State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands, Frederick F. Anscombe frames his...
The First World War (WWI) was the biggest war that the world had ever seen, at least until the...