The concept of humanitarian intervention and international practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is the subject of Against...

Almost eight years on from the start of accession negotiations, the view of Turkey-European Union (EU) relations is somber. The Union is too busy...

This is a path-breaking book that contributes to the literature on ethnicity and nationalism from various aspects. Conceptually, it develops a...

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

“The Rushdie Affair” that began in 1989 with the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, the “Book Burning in Bradford” that came...

Yugoslavia was established after World War I as the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom. Although the name of the newly-founded state bore the names...

This book originated from the second annual conference held by the Centre for Research, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism at the University of Surrey....

Americans are in the middle of an election season, and even though American democracy is imperfect, there is little doubt about the importance...

Kalin’s book is a result of a growing interest in the later developments in Islamic philosophy and it is a culmination of scholarship in this area....

American military bases, long identified with US interests, have always been a controversial subject among scholars. A significant increase in the...

Ali Balcı’s Militarist State Discourse in Turkey is an adaption of the second chapter of his PhD thesis that surveyed the period between 1960 and...

This volume edited by P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thalia Dragonas, and Çağlar Keyder is the third of a very interesting series, product of a...

This book is the first comprehensive exploration of Iranian-Turkish relations since 1979. It attempts to clarify contemporary political...

This book shows how much opportunity the field of Anglo-Islamic studies still offers future scholars. Based on papers that were presented at a...

The book Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: Republic at Sea is a valuable source of information on Turkish foreign and security...

Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy is a welcome addition to the fast-growing literature in English on Turkish foreign...

Histories of Jerusalem are usually concerned with the holy places, the various communities living in the city, or the crusader and ancient pasts....

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

Introducing his readers to an overview of the history of “the network of roads” (p. 1) that has been called the Silk Road (p. 1), the author...

In the last several years, there has been an increasing interest in non-western international relations (IR) theory and expanding the scope of...

Gül Berna Özcan’s Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia is a welcome addition to the literature as it fills a gap in...

Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the social role of intellectuals in the Middle...

This scholarly and well-written book treats the history of late Ottoman Palestine not as a prologue to the present political question as usual, but...

Socrates’ pupil Chaerephon once asked an oracle “who is the wisest of all men?” The oracle responded that Socrates is the wisest of all because of...