Arab Spring: Two years after
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Winter 2013
Two years ago the Arab Middle East was shaken by popular uprisings. The events have resulted either in regime change or reforms in some countries, and oppression and violence in others. At the outset the uprisings, which stretched from Tunisia to Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, were hailed as the beginning of a new era in which people power will reign in the Middle East.
Commentaries
The approval of the new, controversial Egyptian constitution does not end the transition process...
What happened in Egypt? The Egyptian regime moved to the offensive prior to the presidential...
Although constitutions are intended to represent and confirm the spirit of coexistence between...
Over the past two decades Turkey and Russia have managed to normalize their bilateral...
The autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq has emerged in recent years as a potentially significant...
With increasing energy consumption from emerging economies, there will be a growing need for new...
Articles
This paper traces the changes to the domestic politics of Arab states following the 2011...
The AK Party seeks to respond to four challenges stemming from three confrontations (Islamism,...
There have been almost regular attempts to declare the “end of Islamism” or “the end of political...
This article examines how the European elite views new parameters of Turkey’s increasing activism...
With decisions about to be made on major pipeline projects, Turkey could become a vital component...
Cyprus has been hit hard by economic misfortunes recently, but now has a big opportunity to...
Review Article
Scramble for the Past: A Study of Archaeology in the Ottoman
Although very different in terms of subject matter, all three books reviewed here offer fascinating insights into the ways writers over time have employed a variety of strategies in an attempt to emphasize the superiority of the western way of life over others.
Book Reviews
This book shows how much opportunity the field of Anglo-Islamic studies still offers future...
The book Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: Republic at Sea is a valuable source of...
Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy is a welcome addition to the...
Histories of Jerusalem are usually concerned with the holy places, the various communities living...
Introducing his readers to an overview of the history of “the network of roads” (p. 1) that has...
In the last several years, there has been an increasing interest in non-western international...
Gül Berna Özcan’s Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia is a...
Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis...
This scholarly and well-written book treats the history of late Ottoman Palestine not as a...