Democratization is an ongoing process. Various social, economic, and historical dynamics play a vital role in the process of democratization. In...

The newly independent countries across the post-Soviet space faced a set of ontological ambiguities following the implosion of the Soviet Union. In...

International politics in the 21st century is distinctive in several ways. First, new regional powers have emerged. In addition, certain...

Moritz Deutschmann in his book Iran and Russian Imperialism: the Ideal Anarchists, 1800-1914, seeks to depict a broad and comprehensive picture of...

The Balkan Wars are among the harshest defeats the Ottomans ever experienced. The shock that was felt with the loss of the Balkan territories, the...

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...

The Economic Transformation of Turkey: Neoliberalism and State Intervention by Nilgün Önder analyses the development of labor relations in Turkey...

This book is a result of collaboration between the two historians who deal with early-modern (Isom-Verhaaren) and modern (Schull) history. The book...

Late Ottoman intellectual history, especially the nineteenth century, was seen by Bernard Lewis (in his The Emergence of Modern Turkey, 1961) and...

Cathie Carmichael’s book integrated the political, economic and cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Throughout a rigorous study of...

With the rising new wave of religious-phobia in the world, understanding what lies behind the phenomenon of religion has never been so important....

As of this writing in late February 2017, ISIS has lost much territory and financial capital since their peak a year or so ago, when the book under...

As Barack Hussein Obama’s second term in the office finalized, one of the hottest debates about his administration recently has been the American...

By effectively defining the war on terror rhetoric, this heritage of Bush to Obama becomes the rhetorical lynchpin for the American foreign policy...

In his book, Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin, William Zimmerman illustrates how the Russian political system unfolded...

The recent rise in global food prices, China’s rise and its aggressive overseas agricultural investment policies resulted in the Western media...

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...

Holmes’ Social Unrest and American Military Bases is a comparative study of anti-American bases social movements that emerged in Turkey and Germany...

Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia: Towards Explanations and Understandings tests a hypothesis that a mosaic type of ethno-geographic...

In his book China’s Foreign Policy, Stuart Harris, a Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University, provides insight into China’s...

With An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism, Umut Uzer addresses a gap in the English-language scholarly literature on Turkey. Uzer,...

This book is the long-expected first book on the politics and history of the Circassian diaspora in Turkey in English that covers an ambitious time...

There is a substantial body of literature on Muslims and Islam in Europe, which largely focuses on institutionalized forms of Islam such as social...

The volume edited by Paul Amar critically analyzes the role that the Global South is thought to play (or not play) in the humanitarian domain. The...