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.
Strategic Relations Between the US and Turkey 1979-2000: Sleeping with a Tiger
1st Edition
By Ekavi Athanassopoulou
December 12, 2019
Taking the period from the end of the 1970s to the end of the 1990s, this book critically examines the evolution of the strategic relationship between the US and Turkey during this period, with a particular focus on the Middle Eastern context.Strategic Relations Between the US and Turkey employs ...
The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey: A Political History
1st Edition
By Zeynel Besleney
December 12, 2019
A North Caucasian ethnic group that has been largely obscured in world history as a result of their expulsion from their homeland by Tsarist Russia in the 1860s, Circassians now comprise significant communities not only in the Northwest Caucasus but also in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Europe and the US....
The Europeanization of Turkish Public Policies: A Scorecard
1st Edition
Edited
By Aylin Güney, Ali Tekin
December 12, 2019
Turkey’s candidacy for membership of the European Union has had mixed effects on its public policies. The initial degree of cohesion between EU and Turkish national policies, practices and institutions has varied by the policy field in question, leading to a complex amalgam of fit and misfit ...
The Israeli Conflict System: Analytic Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Harvey Starr, Stanley Dubinsky
December 12, 2019
The Middle East conflict system is perhaps the world’s most important and intractable problem area, whose developments carry global consequences. An effective investigation of the context and change in the region calls for a melding of academic approaches, methods and findings with policy oriented ...
The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Zeynep Gambetti, Joost Jongerden
December 12, 2019
This volume gives a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the Kurdish issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective that takes into account geographical variations in identity formation, exclusion and political mobilisation. Although analysis of Turkey’s Kurdish issue from a spatial perspective is ...
The Kurdish Liberation Movement in Iraq: From Insurgency to Statehood
1st Edition
By Yaniv Voller
December 12, 2019
Investigating the transformation of the Kurdish liberation movement in Iraq this book explores its development from an armed guerrilla movement, engaged in a war for liberation with the government in Baghdad, into the government of a de facto Kurdish state known as the Kurdistan Regional Government...
The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia
1st Edition
By Afshin Shahi
December 12, 2019
Exploring the management of ‘truth’ in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official ‘truth’ is constructed and institutionalised in the country. The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia argues that there are two interrelated notions which ...
The Turkish AK Party and its Leader: Criticism, opposition and dissent
1st Edition
Edited
By Umit Cizre
December 12, 2019
After landslide electoral victories, two referenda and a presidential election, thirteen years of AK Party rule have shattered many myths regarding Turkey’s politics and the nature of the party itself. This book argues that the last thirteen years are best understood via the AK party’s interaction ...
Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Morocco: Negotiating the Years of Lead
1st Edition
By Fadoua Loudiy
December 12, 2019
This book examines the Moroccan experience of transitional justice, more specifically the negotiation of the legacy of the period commonly referred to as the Years of Lead. This period of Moroccan history roughly spans from the early 1960s to 1999 during which thousands of citizens were arbitrarily...
Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience
1st Edition
By Nurhan Abujidi
December 12, 2019
Exploring the way urbicide is used to un/re-make Palestine, as well as how it is employed as a tool of spatial dispossession and control, this book examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial projects in Palestine. The broader framework of the book is ...
Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey: Fragmentations, Mobilizations, Participations & Repertoires
1st Edition
By Mehmet Orhan
June 10, 2019
The Kurdish conflict is an acknowledged long-standing issue in the Middle East, and the emergence of radical Kurdish nationalist movements in the 20th century played a decisive role in the evolution of political violence. Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey examines how this political violence ...
Mobilizing Religion in Middle East Politics: A Comparative Study of Israel and Turkey
1st Edition
By Yusuf Sarfati
May 17, 2019
Contrary to the expectations of the secularization theorists, religious political movements rose to prominence in numerous countries across the globe in the past three decades. By examining the conditions that underlie the electoral fortunes of religious actors in democratic regimes, this book ...