Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
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On Turkish politics and International affairs

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...

Negotiating Survival: Civilian-Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan

Despite this analytical weakness, Negotiating Survival offers readers a brilliant glimpse into the realities on the ground and the considerations...

A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers

The book’s strength lies in bringing the narrative of Palestinian and Irish hunger strikers together in a symbolic gesture that speaks of the...

Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, from Yugoslavia to Syria

Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities by Kate Ferguson is highly recommended for researchers of violence...

Turkey: A Past against History

As a careful observer of modern Turkish history and domestic politics, Christine Philliou skillfully addresses the emergence and transformation of...

The Future of Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the United States

The book can be very insightful not only for those who are working in think tanks but for any other intellectual or activist organization or...

A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

While the book traces a progressivist line from Orientalism and modernization theories, the overall approach is non-emancipatory, as it is geared...

Drones: The Brilliant, the Bad and the Beautiful

Drones: The Brilliant, the Bad, and the Beautiful demonstrates that although the development of drones is still in its infancy, it has both...

Decentralization and Governance Capacity: The Case of Turkey

The author unpacks the important relationship among socio-economic development, local capacity, and better governance in the case of Türkiye....

Syria and the Neutrality Trap: Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes

The book can be very beneficial for those who study international relations and international law or who work in these fields both as an...

The Liberal International Theory Tradition in Europe

The Liberal International Theory Tradition in Europe promotes liberalism and revives its classical IR tradition, predominantly by presenting...

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