Inspired by the centenary of World War I (WWI), a plethora of history books have been released recently. This article reviews four of the latest...

The study of European Islam is now experiencing an unprecedented revival. While most of its attention is dedicated to Islam as a minority in...

The field of cultural policies is novel and burgeoning; it harbors diverse and even contradictory approaches, with no universally recognizable...

Over the years, the term ‘globalization’ has acquired notoriety in all forms of intellectual exchanges in the social sciences and other...

The three books reviewed in this article do not seem closely related in the first impression. Younos’ book sheds light upon Islamic culture in the...

In one of his articles on the requirements of large-scale democracy and political institutions, Robert A. Dahl warns students of political science...

A culture of political violence is the configuration of factors which exist lastingly in a political subject’s milieu, and determine if and to what...

We are now witnessing a harvest of new history books on the making of the modern Middle East. Five are chosen for a critical review below. They are...

There has been a dramatic expansion in the size, scope and capacity of non-state actors around the globe in the last three decades. Providing...

Edited by Bill Kissane, After Civil War: Division, Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Contemporary Europe is an ambitious attempt to explore the...

In 2015, the philosopher Hamid Dabashi published a book with the provocative title, Can Non-Europeans Think?. Over its pages Dabashi echoes authors...

During the last several years, Latin America has been presented as a complex and enduring interaction between social forces and anti-hegemonic...

Beginning in the early 1980s, a number of works were published on the Arab provinces. These works criticized nationalistic approaches that treated...

Religion has always been an overriding theme among social scientists, politicians, diplomats and laymen. While the importance attached to it has...

While traveling through, İstanbul can often prove overwhelming for tourists and locals alike, people often find different strategies to make sense...

The three books reviewed here focus on one of the most prevalent forms of discrimination: Gender Injustice. Everywhere in the world women tend to...

Turkey’s relations with the United States have seldom been at such a low point. In late February 2014, 84 former lawmakers, ambassadors and...

ALTHOUGH written from a variety of perspectives at different points in history, all three books reviewed here offer penetrating insights into...

The subject of American decline and the new global order has been on the agenda of political scientists and international observers for more than...

Although very different in terms of subject matter, all three books reviewed here offer fascinating insights into the ways writers over time have...

Turkey’s role in the contemporary world continues to be a subject of intense debate, especially at a time when its economic performance surpasses...