In the last decade, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as a leading counter-revolutionary force in the Middle East. Feeling the heat of...
Through a wide range of articles and commentaries, this issue aims to bring to its readers a comprehensive framework on the transformation of...
The Mediterranean region has witnessed a lot of turbulence in the last decade. On the one hand, the Arab uprising changed the shape of the regional...
U.S. President Donald Trump declared his long-awaited and debated Middle East ‘peace plan,’ the so-called ‘deal of the century,’ in January 2020,...
Tracing the evolution of the Turkish defense industry through five major periods of development, this article draws attention to crucial turning...
Turkey’s new expeditionary capability, resting on enhanced naval capacity and new forward bases, is the logical result of Turkey’s post-Cold War...
The nexus among sports and politics has gained strength during recent decades. Because the Middle East is one of the world’s most troubled regions,...
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Western influence in the Persian Gulf has continued to expand; this process has also exposed several...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the domestic and foreign policy agendas of all countries have been turned upside down. The pandemic has brought new...
This article argues that a post-orientalist discourse has emerged over the past few decades to challenge the dominance of orientalism on Western...
The term ‘apartheid’ was coined to describe the system of segregation, practiced for many years in South Africa. However, the 2002 Rome Statute of...
In this commmentary, it is emphasized that it has been years, perhaps decades, since the success of negotiations between Israel and the...
By the standards of historical and anthropological scholarship, Israel constitutes a colonial settler regime whose certain features may differ from...
Yemen’s socio-political structure has a close connection with the tribes. Unlike the central and southern parts of the country, Yemen’s extreme...
In this commentary, the status and significance of Bayt al-Maqdis in Islam is discussed from a religious perspective. The importance of Bayt...
Through a wide range of commentaries and articles, this issue of Insight Turkey aims to bring to its readers a comprehensive framework on the...
Gaining independence from Britain in 1971 and enjoying enormous oil and natural gas resources, Qatar has exerted extraordinarily large influence...
Starting in 2013, Turkish-American relations have been undergoing one of the deepest and most alarming crises since the 1940s. Ankara, a NATO...
International security theories generally identify economic power as the key determinant of military power, and thereby of security, but there is...
Grand strategy is a blueprint that sets the path to foreign policy; more specifically, it reveals which foreign policy decisions should be taken...
The book under review is a work by American-Lebanese scholar Walid Phares, who specializes in Middle East politics. He has worked in different...
In 2011, the world observed a massive political uprising in the Middle East and North African (MENA) states. An invisible but constant competition...
Since the end of the Cold War, much of the turmoil in the Middle East has been caused by the religiopolitical identity of different countries of...
Saudi Arabia’s massive air campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen initiated a major shift from the Kingdom’s traditional policy of restraint,...
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