A valuable book that helps to better understand the spiky path in the relations between Western countries on both sides of the Atlantic. Simoni...

Because of the U.S.’ long history as an oil importer, its economy has suffered for many years due to oil price hikes stemming from oil supply...

The Power Triangle offers a historical sociology account of power relations during times of regime stability and change. The book was originally a...

Despite four decades of multi-level and multi-actor efforts to find a solution, Cyprus remains an intractable conflict and a case of analysis for...

In the last decade, discussions around religious rights, particularly the rights of Muslim migrant populations in the West, have occupied...

The discipline of International relations (IR) is deeply rooted in the history, intellectual traditions, and agency claims of the west, thus...

The Islamic face veil is now banned in public spaces by several European countries; Austria being the last country to pass a bill for a general ban...

Is it possible to reincarnate God – who has been assumed to be dead for a long time? Terry Eagleton, a prominent thinker and literary critic,...

Carr segments the book into 12 chapters in two parts; he points out the irony between theoretical liberalization and the practical hardening of...

Through meticulous research, Adeed Dawisha traces Arab nationalism chronologically from its rise to its fall. The book offers a historical...

This book is highly informative for scholars and students interested in comparative politics and religion. In its explication of how religion...

The three books reviewed in this article do not seem closely related in the first impression. Younos’ book sheds light upon Islamic culture in the...

In one of his articles on the requirements of large-scale democracy and political institutions, Robert A. Dahl warns students of political science...

As its name suggests, this is a book that attempts to answer one of the greatest historical puzzles of all times: Why did a couple of Western...

The Shape of the New consists of two parts, seven chapters and a conclusion. The subtitle, “Four Big Ideas and How they Made the Modern World”...

The book is a compilation of lectures Bourdieu delivered at the Collège de France between the years 1989 and 1992. Running the risk of missing out...

Furthermore, while Central Asia’s urban centers were, as Starr illustrates, already occupied with science to a certain degree, it was not until...

The book analyzes environmental issues under three main chapters. The first chapter discusses the issues of global climate, environment and energy...

The author starts by giving important clues about how hospitality should be structured for victims escaping from massacre, and ethical ways of...

When we look at important aspects of the book, Gambetta and Hertog’s contribution to the theorization and conceptualization of radicalization...

The author begins by analyzing the deep state, which as a term originates from near Turkish political history and is usually composed of high-level...

The Circassian is a successful attempt in two ways. Firstly, Fortna’s chronological design of the account allows the reader to follow Eşref’s...

One of Viroli’s aims is to refute the common perception that Machiavelli was a ‘teacher of evil’ who knew nothing about democracy or liberty. The...

Hüseyin Işıksal and Ozan Örmeci’s edited volume Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium constitutes an insightful analysis of how Turkey’s...