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.
Egyptian Foreign Policy From Mubarak to Morsi: Against the National Interest
1st Edition
By Nael Shama
December 12, 2019
Egyptian Foreign Policy from Mubarak to Morsi explores an area rarely touched upon by researchers, the relationship between regime security and the national interest. Concentrating on Egyptian foreign policy under President Hosni Mubarak, this book analyses how it was used to bolster his internal ...
Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey: Party Politics and the Mobilization of Swing Voters
1st Edition
By Gul Akdag
December 12, 2019
Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey attempts to understand the mobilization strategies of incumbent parties to consolidate and increase their support among swing voters of an ethnic group. By analyzing the strategy of AKP on voters of Kurdish origin, it investigates the conditions under which it can ...
Israel's Military Operations in Gaza: Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare
1st Edition
By Marouf Hasian Jr
December 12, 2019
Civilians in Gaza and Israel are caught up in complex, violent situations that have overstepped conventional battle lines. Both sides of the conflict have found ways to legitimate the use of violence, and continually swap accusations of violations of domestic and international humanitarian ...
Israel’s Foreign Policy Beyond the Arab World: Engaging the Periphery
1st Edition
By Jean-Loup Samaan
December 12, 2019
For over 60 years, Israel’s foreign policy establishment has looked at its regional policy through the lens of a geopolitical concept named "the periphery doctrine." The idea posited that due to the fundamental hostility of neighboring Arab countries, Israel ought to counterbalance this threat...
Koreans in the Persian Gulf: Policies and International Relations
1st Edition
By Shirzad Azad
December 12, 2019
Analyzing the Korean Peninsula’s contemporary engagement with the Persian Gulf region from the 1950s to the present day, the book begins by asking the following question: What drew Koreans to the region in the first place and under what circumstances were they drawn there?While taking into account ...
Kurdish Politics in Turkey: From the PKK to the KCK
1st Edition
By Seevan Saeed
December 12, 2019
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds were promised their own state. However, several factors meant that this dream never became a reality, and the land of the Kurds was divided. Amid a sense of a loss of identity, the Kurds started to fight for their social and ...
Minority Rights in Turkey: A Battlefield for Europeanization
1st Edition
By Gözde Yilmaz
December 12, 2019
The issue of minority rights is highly contested in both member and candidate states of the European Union. Compared with other policy areas, the Europeanization process in minority rights is much slower and more problematic. Turkey, though, differs from the majority of the member states by showing...
Municipal Politics in Turkey: Local Government and Party Organisation
1st Edition
By Charlotte Joppien
December 12, 2019
There is a large and growing literature on Turkish politics in general, and the AKP in particular. However, local government and party organization, although very important topics, are strikingly understudied. This book compares local politics in two Central Anatolian cities, Konya and Eskişehir, ...
Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party
1st Edition
Edited
By Elise Massicard, Nicole Watts
December 12, 2019
This edited collection looks at how political parties in Turkey actually work, inside and out. Departing from traditional macro-level analyses, the book offers a new sociological approach to the study of political parties, treating them as non-unitary entities composed of many different groups and ...
Politics and Gender Identity in Turkey: Centralised Islam for Socio-Economic Control
1st Edition
By Umut Korkut, Hande Eslen-Ziya
December 12, 2019
The creation of Turkish nationhood, citizenship, economic transformation, the forceful removal of minorities and national homogenisation, gender rights, the position of armed forces in politics, and the political and economic integration of Kurdish minority in Turkish polity have all received major...
Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession
1st Edition
By Stig Stenslie
December 12, 2019
This book examines the structure of political power amongst elites inside Saudi Arabia and how they might cope with the very serious challenge posed by succession. Presenting a new and refreshing theoretical approach that links elite integration with regime stability, the author shows that the ...
Saudi Arabian Foreign Relations: Diplomacy and Mediation in Conflict Resolution
1st Edition
By René Rieger
December 12, 2019
In recent decades, Saudi Arabia has committed itself to playing the part of mediator in intra-national and international conflicts in the greater Middle East region. Examples include the two Saudi-introduced Arab Peace Initiatives of 1982 and 2002, mediation attempts between Algeria and Morocco in ...