The New Middle East
Editor's Notes
Guest Editor's Note | Summer 2015
In a radio broadcast in 1939 Winston Churchill defined Russia in a famous quip as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.’ The chain of metaphors in Churchill’s famous maxim was to point the difficulty of making sense of the great political transformation Russia had gone through.
Commentaries
Washington’s Middle East policy is a shambles. The region’s turmoil fundamentally stems from the...
Many expected the Arab uprisings to strengthen official and popular Arab support for Palestinian...
This commentary discusses the ways in which Western counterterrorism policy in the Middle East...
The Iran nuclear deal has the potential to become a game changer in the Middle East by providing...
The Arab Spring offered Kurdish political actors in the region significant opportunities to...
Articles
This paper aims to provide an analysis of the ‘new’ in ‘the new Middle East.’ We argue that what...
This paper conceives of the Arab Spring as a leap forward that has relegated the established...
The Arab Uprisings and their transformational impact across MENA have generated immense debate...
This article explores Turkey’s changing regional security and Ankara’s pursuit of a missile...
This paper draws on the ‘moral’ dimensions of Turkey’s ‘new’ foreign policy as it became manifest...
The IHH delivers relief aid to 140 countries worldwide. Quite recently, as a novel humanitarian...
Review Article
Secularism, Modern State, and Homo Religiosus Societies
Religion has always been an overriding theme among social scientists, politicians, diplomats and laymen. While the importance attached to it has changed over the course of time; its significance has never ceased for society and states. Although the paradigm of secularism or secularization has been prominent and prevalent in the social sciences, religion has recently gained strong momentum in western academia.
Book Reviews
Recently, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran has become an interesting topic to study...
In Political Islam in the Age of Democratization, Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai explain the...
In a 1994 book, “The Twilight of Democracy,” American analyst Patrick Kennon examined various...
Yung, Petersen, and Sparre’s Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities presents an interesting...
The surge of left governments in Latin America since the early the 2000s has not gone unnoticed....
Towards the end of Chapter 7 “Is there a space for European Muslims?” which is a concluding...
One does not have to look far to be reminded that the most feared form of extremism among...
Divided Nations and European Integration is a coherent collection of essays analyzing the effects...
The book under review is the product of the research findings and discussions of the Workshop for...
Doğan Gürpınar’s most recent contribution to Late Ottoman History places the formation of modern...