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.
Party Politics in Turkey: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabri Sayarı, Pelin Musil, Özhan Demirkol
September 30, 2021
Although the literature on party politics has significantly advanced both methodologically and theoretically in recent years, the study of political parties in Turkey has been noticeably disconnected and lacking from such conversations. This book evaluates well-established theories and trends in ...
The Iraqi Kurds and the Cold War: Regional Politics, 1958–1975
1st Edition
By Hawraman Ali
September 30, 2021
Examining the effects of the Cold War and regional politics on the Iraqi Kurds between 1958 and 1975, this study demonstrates how regional and international powers sought to exploit the Iraqi Kurds in their quest for statehood. The research draws on a plethora of British and American archival ...
Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Attempted Coup d’état and the Acceleration of Political Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikos Christofis
June 30, 2021
Demonstrating how Turkey’s politics have developed, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of the failed coup d'état of 15 July 2016. The momentous event and its aftermath challenges us to ask if the coup was the cause of Turkey’s present crisis, or simply an accelerant of trends already ...
Ethnicity and Party Politics in Turkey: The Rise of the Kurdish Party during the Kurdish Opening Process
1st Edition
By Berna Öney
March 31, 2021
Delving into Turkey’s political playing field, this book examines how an ethnic party increased its vote shares. The case study looks at the rise of the Kurdish party in Turkey’s 2011 national elections in relation to the mainstream political parties' strategies.The research explores the strategy ...
Religion and Hezbollah: Political Ideology and Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Mariam Farida
March 31, 2021
This comprehensive and thought-provoking volume examines the role and function of religion in Hezbollah’s political strategy in the context of contemporary Lebanese politics and global security.The book demonstrates how Hezbollah uses religious mechanisms such as taklif shari (religious assessment)...
The Decline of Democracy in Turkey: A Comparative Study of Hegemonic Party Rule
1st Edition
By Kürşat Çınar
December 18, 2020
This book explores the roots of the decline of democracy and the rise of hegemonic parties in Turkey, by comparing the Justice and Development Party (AKP) with other comparable cases throughout the world.Offering a novel analysis in the rise of hegemonic parties, this book incorporates the analysis...
Women in Turkey: Silent Consensus in the Age of Neoliberalism and Islamic Conservatism
1st Edition
By Gamze Çavdar, Yavuz Yaşar
December 18, 2020
This book provides a socio-economic examination of the status of women in contemporary Turkey, assessing how policies have combined elements of neoliberalism and Islamic conservatism.Using rich qualitative and quantitative analyses, Women in Turkey analyses the policies concerning women in the ...
Israel in a Turbulent Region: Security and Foreign Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Tore Petersen
September 30, 2020
This anthology examines and deconstructs what Israeli security looks like and how its various security identities have evolved both before the establishment of the state and in the years and decades since 1948. It casts light on how aspects of Israel’s foreign relations have been shaped as much by ...
Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey: Ottomanism, Nationalism and Multiculturalism
1st Edition
By Serhun Al
September 30, 2020
Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey tackles a theoretical puzzle in understanding the state policy changes toward minorities and nationhood, first by placing the state in the historical context of the international system and second by unpacking the state through analysis of ...
Power Sharing in Lebanon: Consociationalism Since 1820
1st Edition
By Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif
September 30, 2020
This book studies the origins and evolution of power sharing in Lebanon. The author has established a relationship between mobilization, ethnurgy (ethnic identification), memory and trauma, and how they impact power sharing provisions. The book starts with the events in the 1820s, when communities ...
The Europeanization of Turkey: Polity and Politics
1st Edition
By Ali Tekin, Aylin Güney
June 30, 2020
Given the recent inertia in EU-Turkey relations in the midst of regional economic and political upheavals, Europeanization of Turkey takes a step back from the latest headlines to provide a comprehensive stocktaking of EU-inspired reform efforts in Turkey with an eye to understanding how effective ...
The Religionization of Israeli Society
1st Edition
By Yoav Peled, Horit Herman Peled
June 30, 2020
During Israel's military operation in Gaza in the summer of 2014 the commanding officer of the Givati infantry brigade, Colonel Ofer Vinter, called upon his troops to fight "the terrorists who defame the God of Israel." This unprecedented call for religious war by a senior IDF commander caused an ...