The Making of a "New Middle East"
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Summer 2011
There is no better instrument than the ballot box to decide “who is to govern” if we care about popular legitimacy. No one can question the mandate given by the people through a free and fair election to a political party, irrespective of its ideology, identity and program.
Commentaries
This essay examines the influence and performance as well as the perception of the new,...
If the revolutions sweeping then Arab world are in fact its “spring” then the Hamas/Fateh...
The wave of uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa has not only affected Russia’s...
This essay addresses four questions that the “Arab spring” has raised with respect to academic...
Articles
The European Union (EU) has been devising new methods to manage irregular migration and border...
The relationship between Turkey (and its predecessor, the Ottoman Empire) and Europe has been...
The vigor which has characterized the Turkish approach to the Western Balkans since the end of...
Following the Turkish Chairmanship-in-Office of the South-East European Cooperation Process...
Recent uprisings and unrests across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have brought new...
Throughout the first seven months of the Arab Spring, starting with the self-immolation of...
Syria became the latest Middle Eastern country to join the chain of protests sweeping across the...
The growth of new capitalist classes since the 1980s has transformed social stratification,...
Since 2002, the Turkish electoral environment and the party system have been undergoing a...
Book Reviews
In his book, Ion Grumeza ambitiously sets about “to fill a gap with authoritative material on how...
Leaving aside the academic discourse, the “theoretical and methodological shields that usually...
Rami Ginat’s monograph traces the development of Syria’s foreign policy of neutralism during its...
T“I was alive only because I had a Turkish passport,” tells Lazar Russo in Arnold Reisman’s...
In this timely book Alexander Murinson explores the forces behind the entente between Turkey,...
Rıfat N. Bali has done us a great service by publishing reports of American diplomats about...
The distressing photo on the cover effectively represents the content of this book. The photo...
Cinema in Turkey differs from other recent books on the subject – notably Gönül Dönmez-Colin’s...
Reşat Kasaba is a well-established, highly competent social scientist with a profound interest in...
Professor Zilfi, a well-established, leading historian of the Ottoman Empire, has joined the...