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.
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 ...
The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain
1st Edition
By Ramazan Aras
January 10, 2019
The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the ...
Turkey's Democratization Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Rodriguez, Antonio Avalos, Hakan Yilmaz, Ana Planet
August 23, 2018
Since the end of the 1980 coup d’état Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of this process in a Turkish context, this book brings together contributions from prominent, Turkish, English, ...
Saudi Maritime Policy: Integrated Governance
1st Edition
By Hatim Al-Bisher, Selina M. Stead, Tim S. Gray
August 09, 2018
Because marine governance in most countries is sectoral, maritime policies are frequently fragmented, reactive, and even contradictory, meaning that marine resources are underutilized and poorly protected. To avoid these problems, the concept of integrated national maritime policy (INMP) has been ...
Democratic Consolidation in Turkey: Micro and macro challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Cengiz Erisen, Paul Kubicek
June 28, 2018
While Turkey has made major strides in democratic reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, progress has, in many ways, stalled. Turkey remains "democratic" in the sense that attaining political power depends upon winning votes, but in recent years its leadership has taken a majoritarian view of ...
The Turkish Deep State: State Consolidation, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy
1st Edition
By Mehtap Sooyler
December 13, 2017
The deep state ranks among the most critical issues in Turkish politics. This book traces its origins and offers an explanation of the emergence and trajectory of the deep state; the meaning and function of informal and authoritarian institutions in the formal security sector of a democratic regime...
Iranian Foreign Policy Since 2001: Alone in the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Juneau, Sam Razavi
December 08, 2017
Examining Iranian foreign policy, with a focus on the years since 2001, this book analyses the defining feature of Iran’s international and regional posture, its strategic loneliness, and the implications of this for the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. Iranian Foreign Policy since 2001 offers ...
The Golan Heights: Political History, Settlement and Geography since 1949
1st Edition
By Yigal Kipnis
December 08, 2017
Presenting the settlement landscape of the Golan before and after June 1967, The Golan Heights deals with the issue of the border between Israel and Syria, and with the Israeli settlement process in the area following the Six Day War. The story of the Golan Heights and its position between Syria ...
The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy: Understanding the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War
1st Edition
By Henrietta Wilkins
December 08, 2017
Seeking to explain Lebanon’s behavior in the international arena during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, this book offers a critique of both systemic and sub state factors in determining foreign policy decisions. The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy illustrates how systemic theories are ...
Turkey's Kurdish Question: Discourse & Politics Since 1990
1st Edition
By Hamid Akin Unver
October 13, 2017
The Kurdish question is one of the most complicated and protracted conflicts of the Middle East and will never be resolved unless it is finally defined. The majority of the Kurdish people live in Turkey, which gives the country a unique position in the larger Kurdish conundrum. Society in Turkey ...
Contemporary Morocco: State, Politics and Society under Mohammed VI
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Daniel Zisenwine
June 16, 2017
Discussions of the unsettled political and social landscapes in the Middle East and North Africa frequently point to Morocco as an exception. An Arab League member-state, Morocco enjoys a favorable image in the West, seemingly combining a healthy and balanced mix of tradition and modernity, ...