In five chapters Smith looks into the standard story of the development of religious freedom in America and proposes a revised version of it, which...

NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are proliferating dramatically in number (3.3 million in India, 1.5 million in the US), and they are present...

When Greeks and Turks Meet, a collection of essays compiled under the editorship of Vally Lytra, who pens also the historical and theoretical...

As Jonathan Laurence observes in the preface to The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims, calling attention to the extent of European governments’...

Christie and Masad analyze the role of State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by bringing together an...

Elisabetta Brighi’s book Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations: The Case of Italy, basically aspires to explain the...

In Foreigners, Minorities and Integration: The Muslim immigrant experience in Britain and Germany, Sarah Hackett focuses on Muslim immigrants’...

The Arab spring has wakened enormous interest in the political economy of the Middle East with analysis pouring from a wide spectrum of schools of...

Ali Abdel Razeks short treatise al-Islam wa-‘usul al-hukm, originally published in Egypt, in 1925, contributed to a debate that still remains at...

Recently, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran has become an interesting topic to study because of the rise of sectarian politics....

In Political Islam in the Age of Democratization, Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai explain the complex and diverse nature of Islamism by...

In a 1994 book, “The Twilight of Democracy,” American analyst Patrick Kennon examined various negative trends in contemporary politics and concluded

Yung, Petersen, and Sparre’s Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities presents an interesting case-study of the extent to which the use of modern...

The surge of left governments in Latin America since the early the 2000s has not gone unnoticed. The region has made great strides in consolidating...

Towards the end of Chapter 7 “Is there a space for European Muslims?” which is a concluding chapter of the volume, Spyros Sofos and Roza...

One does not have to look far to be reminded that the most feared form of extremism among Americans today is that of radical Islamists.

Divided Nations and European Integration is a coherent collection of essays analyzing the effects of expanding European institutions on the...

The book under review is the product of the research findings and discussions of the Workshop for Armenian and Turkish Scholarship (WATS) initiated...

Doğan Gürpınar’s most recent contribution to Late Ottoman History places the formation of modern Turkish nationalism not in any externally imposed...

Western political philosophy still shies away from including the Muslim world in its scope. Some political philosophers simply disregard Islam...

To write about the political dimensions of Islam is, indeed, to examine the universal phenomenon of Islam and politics as it happens to be...

The main aim of this book is to evaluate from a normative perspective the foreign policy of the United States (US) and, in particular, US conduct...

This book is an in-depth study that investigates the international relations between the western and non-western world while challenging the...

Before wading in, as an outsider, to the controversial issue of Turkey and the Holocaust, a reminder of what was lost that can never, ever be...