Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov’s book focusing on recent theoretical analysis of economic and sociological history, is a text of limitless...

Christian Joppke’s study is an ambitious project that tries to examine the different ways in which European countries respond to the increased...

Redeploying the State is a book about statehood, which can also be called state strength, capacity, or effectiveness. In order to address this...

An increase in world’s energy needs coupled with a decrease in available resources has created a trend that will lead to the militarization of...

The quest to incorporate non-material factors into international relations has continued apace into the twenty-first century. After religion,...

Religions of the Book adds to a growing body of scholarship on Christian perceptions of Muslims and Jews. The collection is somewhat uneven, but...

This book examines the role of clans in Central Asia from the 19th century up to 2004. Most studies of regime transition focus on formal...

Spiritual conflict with Islam has a long lineage in Christian thought. Bernard Lewis, the dean of Western scholars of Islam, points out that the...

The Magna Carta tradition that has been enshrined in Anglo-American law and celebrated in liberal political culture focuses almost exclusively on...

“The Ties that Bind” is an edited compilation of European and Canadian authors discussing the issue of “Accommodating Diversity” in Canada and the...

Shadid and van Koningsveld are at it again, this time with a full-length comparative treatment of Islam in two countries, the Netherlands and...

The volume under review is the collection of many articles written at different times by Cemil Koçak. It consists of three main chapters, “Atatürk...

“Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages” by Mark Cohen is a useful work for those interested in the question of the status of Jews...

This book examines the shifting balance of power between two western allies in the tumultuous Middle East. British interest in the Persian Gulf...

“I argue that the vast majority of Islamist movements do not pose a real threat to the West and its interests,” Ahmad S. Moussalli asserts in his...

In this remarkable book, Ussama Makdisi offers a marvelously subtle analysis of American missionary work in nineteenth-century Syria, and just as...

Political developments in the Middle East have recently received a great deal of attention by journalists, editors, and academics, in addition to...

It is a truism of contemporary social thought that modernity is not singular in its trajectories, but multiple. One especially significant element...

Turkish Politics in a Changing World, consisting of articles written by Keyman and Öniş discusses Turkey’s political process without ignoring the...

Robert Olson has been a pioneering and prolific scholar of Kurdish nationalism. In Blood, Beliefs and Ballots, he analyzes Kurdish political...

Devoid of rhetorical embellishment, this work challenges some traditional notions about the tragic history of both the Muslim and Armenian people...

In recent years, relations between Turkey and the United States have been tumultuous. This is in contrast with a half century of exemplary cordial...

Various scholars have analyzed Turkey’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War era from different angles. The changes in Turkish foreign policy, in...

The purpose of Augustus Richard Norton’s book— authored by the co-editor of the “Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics” series—“is to offer a more...