Recently, there has been a growing body of literature on the multifaceted relationship between religion, politics and security in both national and...

Ali Balcı’s book, Türkiye Dış Politikası: İlkeler, Aktörler, Uygulamalar (Turkish Foreign Policy: Principles, Actors, Practices), contains...

What happened in 1915 is a much debated issue by scholars and researchers as well as politicians. Turkey’s official position labeling other claims...

Sean McMeekin’s book is a critical reading of the history of German involvement in the Middle East during World War I. It is specifically a...

Over the past decade, the social and political history of Ottoman/Turkish medicine has been growing as a new and potent field of study; Yücel...

William Dalrymple, famed British historian and writer, is widely considered as the leading modern scholar on South Asia and, especially, the...

John Witte, Jr., the Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and Jeremy Gunn, a professor at Al Akhawayn...

The Kurdish question has been one of the most highly debated issues in Turkey for the last few decades, if not earlier. Although researchers and...

Studies on the Ottoman modernization of Arab provinces have received an increasing amount of attention by historians. Concordantly, scholars are...

Christine M. Philliou’s meticulous study, rooted in a harmony of multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives, elaborates on the experience...

The EU has been involved in democracy promotion in the Mediterranean for many years. However, it is facing criticism from its members and partners...

Some 15 to 20 years from today, it will be illuminating to examine how academic and policy circles read the period from early 2013 to late 2014 in...

How has the Syrian regime, being the ‘odd man out’ in the Middle East, survived for so many years under the Assads? Given its survival, what makes...

This edited volume on European constitutionalism is a compendium of essays with different interpretations on the constitutional authority and...

A researcher interested in Turkish foreign policy and domestic politics, I was very captivated with the book’s title as it entails an analysis of...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is presumably the most problematic and persistent theme in Middle Eastern politics. Thus, the conflict is one of...

Relations between Europe and Russia in the post-Cold War era constitute a fascinating area of study, as it involves many interlinked socioeconomic...

Studies on the Europeans who lived in the Ottoman Empire have been mostly conducted through the Ottoman and European state archives. Few works on...

You cannot judge a book by its cover – or even its title. Now and then, a work comes along that forces us to take notice of what the author means...

As one of the major components of the Islamic state, Islamic law has drawn considerable attention from different scholars both in the East and...

In this book, Erdağ Göknar, the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel, My Name Is Red, has set himself the task of explaining why Pamuk’s...

The demise of empires left a powerful and perplexing legacy for successor states in the Middle East and Central Asia. Sally Cummings and Raymond...

A decade after 9/11, the Arab revolts gave a second impetus to scholarly interest in the Middle East. A plethora of books and other academic and...

In her comparative study, Ghoncheh Tazmini investigates the Russian revolution of 1917 and the 1979 Iranian revolution to identify patterns of...