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Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Western political philosophy still shies away from including the Muslim world in its scope. Some political philosophers simply disregard Islam...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics 2 volumes

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (2 volumes)

To write about the political dimensions of Islam is, indeed, to examine the universal phenomenon of Islam and politics as it happens to be...

The United States and Great Power Responsibility in International Society

The United States and Great Power Responsibility in International Society: Drones, Rendition and Invasion

The main aim of this book is to evaluate from a normative perspective the foreign policy of the United States (US) and, in particular, US conduct...

International Orders in the Early Modern World Before the Rise

International Orders in the Early Modern World: Before the Rise of the West

This book is an in-depth study that investigates the international relations between the western and non-western world while challenging the...

Turkey the Jews and the Holocaust

Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust

Before wading in, as an outsider, to the controversial issue of Turkey and the Holocaust, a reminder of what was lost that can never, ever be...

Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration Trust and Emancipation

Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration: Trust and Emancipation in Europe

In recent years, limited legal channels for migrants seeking protection in Europe, predominantly originating from Africa, has been a compelling...

Egyptian Revolution 2 0 Political Blogging Civic Engagement and Citizen

Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism

The wave of mass protests that swept through the Arab World in early 2011 highlighted the distinct role of the internet-based media tools and...

Mobilizing Religion in Middle East Politics A Comparative Study of

Mobilizing Religion in Middle East Politics: A Comparative Study of Israel and Turkey

In his book Mobilizing Religion in Middle East Politics, Yusuf Sarfati provides one of the few book-length, up to date, comparative studies between...

Informal Power in the Greater Middle East Hidden Geographies

Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies

The wave of mass protests that swept through the Arab World in early 2011 highlighted the distinct role of the internet-based media tools and...

Religion as a Conversation Starter Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding in

Religion as a Conversation Starter Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding in the Balkans

Religions and religious actors have been the subject of several scholarly works published in the last two decades to examine the outburst and...

İstanbul of the Mind

İstanbul of the Mind

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

The Young Atatürk From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey

The Young Atatürk: From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey

In The Young Atatürk, George Gawrych examines the intellectual development of Mustafa Kemal as a soldier, and looks at how he applied what he had...

Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World

Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World

Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World is an edited volume focusing on a neglected issue within the social sciences, at least until very...

Islamophobia in America The Anatomy of Intolerance

Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance

This edited volume is a collection of essays dealing with the issue of Islamophobia in the United States from various perspectives, such as race...

The Making of the Arab Intellectual Empire Public Sphere and

The Making of the Arab Intellectual Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood

History of Arab intellectuals has received a renewed academic attention after the Arab world demonstrated its ability to go through the...

Japan s Foreign Aid to Africa Angola and Mozambique within

Japan’s Foreign Aid to Africa Angola and Mozambique within the TICAD Process

Pedro Amakasu Raposo’s Japan’s Foreign Aid to Africa was published exactly at the right time when this subject is receiving remarkable attention...

Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific

Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior

Theory, or the principles that help one organise, understand and interpret facts in a better manner, is the central pillar around which any...

Turkish-Greek Relations Rapprochement Civil Society and the Politics of Friendship

Turkish-Greek Relations Rapprochement, Civil Society and the Politics of Friendship

Leonidas Karakatsanis’ book looks at the reconciliation efforts between Turkey and Greece which, according to the author, resemble a pendulum that...

Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe

Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe

Over the past three decades, Ottoman studies continues to be enriched by new topics and methodologies, revising old nationalistic historiography...

Controversies in Contemporary Islam

Controversies in Contemporary Islam

This book is structured in terms of a number of issues that are controversial among Muslims or between Muslims and others. It is based on the...

M siki İnkıl bı nın Sosyolojisi Klasik Türk Müziği Geleneğinde

Mûsiki İnkılâbı’nın Sosyolojisi: Klasik Türk Müziği Geleneğinde Süreklilik ve Değişim

There is a recent growing interest in Ottoman/Turkish music, fostering new research initiatives in the field based on different approaches,...

Women s Voices Across the World for Justice

Women’s Voices Across the World for Justice

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

Testing Times in Turco-American Relations

Testing Times in Turco-American Relations

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

Ethnicity Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus Nagorno-Karabakh and

Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy

The Soviet Union, which has two contradictory definitions (“Prison of Peoples” and “Free Association of Peoples”), is seen as the perpetrator of...

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