Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
About the Book Series
This series is concerned with recent political developments in the region. It will have a range of different approaches and include both single authored monographs and edited volumes covering issues such as international relations, foreign intervention, security, political Islam, democracy, ideology and public policy.
Ethnic Minorities in Israel and Turkey: Inside Outsiders
1st Edition
By Z. Aslı Elitsoy
December 29, 2025
Ethnic Minorities in Israel and Turkey: Inside Outsiders offers a compelling comparative analysis of state-minority relations, revealing how national identity is constructed and contested through the lens of two of the region’s most enduring ethnic conflicts. Through extensive fieldwork and elite ...
The Political Left in Egypt: Secularism and Democratization
1st Edition
By Talal Alkhadher
December 29, 2025
Covering Sadat, Mubarak, and the post-revolution periods, this book presents a contemporary intellectual history of the Egyptian secular left in politics since 1970. It covers a timeframe which witnessed cycles of repression and inclusion and explores how leftist parties which lack mobilization ...
Tribalism and Democracy in Libya: State Building and Identity After Gaddafi
1st Edition
By Rawia Ben Khayal
September 05, 2025
This book examines the political and social role of tribes in post-Gaddafi Libya, focusing on the current democratic state-building process. It integrates both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including a survey of 1,000 respondents and in-depth interviews with 14 prominent Libyan ...
From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring: A History of Three Egyptian Thawras Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Uzi Rabi, Mira Tzoreff
August 29, 2025
Focused on three Egyptian revolutions—in 1919, 1952, and 2011—this edited book argues that each of these revolutions is a milestone which represents a meaningful turning point in modern Egyptian history. Revolutions are typically characterized by a fundamental change in political and social ...
Iran and the West: A Non-Western Approach to Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Andrew Thomas
August 29, 2025
This book explores non-Western approaches to foreign policy in the context of Iran in order to encourage wider consideration of non-Western scholarship in international relations. Throughout its existence IR has drawn primarily on Western thought and experience, leaving other perspectives on the ...
Decentralization in Turkey: A Centennial Political Issue
1st Edition
By Galip Emre Yıldırım
May 13, 2025
This book explores the political dimensions of decentralization and (re)centralization policies in Turkey over the past century. It traces the evolution of these policies, from the late Ottoman Empire's decentralization efforts in the late 19th century, to the centralization under the Kemalist ...
Overlapping Regional Orders in the Middle East and North Africa: Norms and Social Practices of Foreign Behaviour
1st Edition
By Jordi Quero
April 14, 2025
Focused on a set of overlapping international orders of regional scope present in the Middle East and North Africa, this book argues that rules and primary institutions have sanctioned the foreign behavior of the sub-system’s international actors since 1945. The author avoids recent IR trends ...
Turkey's Relations With Israel: The First Sixty Two Years,1948–2010
1st Edition
By Ekavi Athanassopoulou
December 03, 2024
This book offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of Turkey’s relations with Israel since 1948, when the state of Israel was established, up until 2010 and places them within the wider framework of Turkey’s foreign policy. It highlights the remarkable lack of consistency in Turkey’s ...
Polarization and Consensus-Building in Israel: The Center Cannot Hold
1st Edition
Edited
By Elie Friedman, Michal Neubauer-Shani, Paul Scham
November 28, 2024
This edited volume examines the most pressing social and political issues confronting Israel from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the breakdown of social solidarity and the inability to formulate consensus. The contributors – encompassing political scientists, historians, communication...
Authoritarian Regimes and their Islamist Rivals: A Comparative Study of Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa
1st Edition
By Miaad A. Hassan
October 31, 2024
This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party systems and regime transitions along a model-like trajectory that spans from revolutionism to authoritarianism and electoral Islamism. Adopting a ...
Israel and the Gaza Strip: The First Decade 1947–1957
1st Edition
By Arnon Golan
September 30, 2024
This book concentrates on the formative period of the Gaza Strip and the bordering Israeli Gaza Frontier Area, considering them as a distinct geographic region that might best be understood as an integral unit of analysis. Based on abundant Israeli, British and American documentation, articles from...
Turkey's Nationalist Action Party: Ideas and Practices
1st Edition
By Arzu Opçin-Kıdal
September 30, 2024
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the nationalist ideas and practices of Turkey’s Nationalist Action Party (MHP) from its founder, Alparslan Türkeş, to its current leader, Devlet Bahçeli. Applying both diachronic and synchronic approaches to the multidimensionality of nationalism, the book ...