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Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

Israel and the United States Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations

Robert O. Freedman’s edited volume, Israel and the United States: Six Decades of U.S.-Israeli Relations, is a compilation of an interesting...

Turkey Facing East Islam Modernity and Foreign Policy

Turkey Facing East: Islam Modernity and Foreign Policy

The relationship between Islam and foreign policy has become the subject of a number of volumes in recent years as scholars seek to understand the...

African Agency in International Politics

African Agency in International Politics

The use of the concept of agency in relation to Africa’s foreign relations has, up to now, been very limited. This has often related to the actions...

Turkey Modern Architectures in History

Turkey: Modern Architectures in History

This book is written as part of the series on “Modern Architectures in History.” Yet, it covers much more than architecture and urbanism in modern...

Democracy Islam and Secularism in Turkey

Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Democracy, Islam and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet Kuru and Alfred Stepan, decribes the so-called “Turkish model” in detail, while trying...

The Rise of China and Chinese International Relations

The Rise of China and Chinese International Relations

The discussion of China’s growing prominence in international life has attracted the increasing attention of policy-makers, the public and scholars...

Muslims in Modern Turkey Kemalism Modernism and the Revolt of

Muslims in Modern Turkey Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals

Muslims in Modern Turkey: Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary Turkish...

The Seljuks of Anatolia Court and Society in the Medieval

The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East

The recent book edited by A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East, demonstrates...

The Future of Religious Freedom Global Challenges

The Future of Religious Freedom Global Challenges

Recently, there has been a growing body of literature on the multifaceted relationship between religion, politics and security in both national and...

Türkiye Dış Politikası İlkeler Aktörler Uygulamalar

Türkiye Dış Politikası İlkeler, Aktörler, Uygulamalar

Ali Balcı’s book, Türkiye Dış Politikası: İlkeler, Aktörler, Uygulamalar (Turkish Foreign Policy: Principles, Actors, Practices), contains...

The Young Turks Crime Against Humanity The Armenian Genocide and

The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

What happened in 1915 is a much debated issue by scholars and researchers as well as politicians. Turkey’s official position labeling other claims...

The Berlin-Baghdad Express The Ottoman Empire and Germany s Bid

The Berlin-Baghdad Express The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power

Sean McMeekin’s book is a critical reading of the history of German involvement in the Middle East during World War I. It is specifically a...

Healing the Nation Prisoners of War Medicine and Nationalism in

Healing the Nation Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939

Over the past decade, the social and political history of Ottoman/Turkish medicine has been growing as a new and potent field of study; Yücel...

Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan 1839-42

Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

William Dalrymple, famed British historian and writer, is widely considered as the leading modern scholar on South Asia and, especially, the...

No Establishment of Religion America s Original Contribution to Religious

No Establishment of Religion America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty

John Witte, Jr., the Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and Jeremy Gunn, a professor at Al Akhawayn...

Understanding Turkey s Kurdish Question

Understanding Turkey’s Kurdish Question

The Kurdish question has been one of the most highly debated issues in Turkey for the last few decades, if not earlier. Although researchers and...

The Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq Political Reform Modernization and

The Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq Political Reform, Modernization and Development in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East

Studies on the Ottoman modernization of Arab provinces have received an increasing amount of attention by historians. Concordantly, scholars are...

Biography of an Empire Governing Ottomans in an Age of

Biography of an Empire Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution

Christine M. Philliou’s meticulous study, rooted in a harmony of multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives, elaborates on the experience...

The EU s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbors Orientation

The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbors Orientation, Ownership and Dialogue in Jordan and Turkey

The EU has been involved in democracy promotion in the Mediterranean for many years. However, it is facing criticism from its members and partners...

Turkey and the Arab Spring Leadership in the Middle East

Turkey and the Arab Spring Leadership in the Middle East

Some 15 to 20 years from today, it will be illuminating to examine how academic and policy circles read the period from early 2013 to late 2014 in...

The Wisdom of Syria s Waiting Game Foreign Policy Under

The Wisdom of Syria’s Waiting Game Foreign Policy Under the Assads

How has the Syrian regime, being the ‘odd man out’ in the Middle East, survived for so many years under the Assads? Given its survival, what makes...

The Worlds of European Constitutionalism

The Worlds of European Constitutionalism

This edited volume on European constitutionalism is a compendium of essays with different interpretations on the constitutional authority and...

Institutional Change in Turkey The Impact of European Union Reforms

Institutional Change in Turkey The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policing

A researcher interested in Turkish foreign policy and domestic politics, I was very captivated with the book’s title as it entails an analysis of...

Filistin Politikamız Camp David den Mavi Marmara ya

Filistin Politikamız: Camp David’den Mavi Marmara’ya

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is presumably the most problematic and persistent theme in Middle Eastern politics. Thus, the conflict is one of...

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