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Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insights into the impact of three prominent actors, namely ISIS, YPG and Shia Militias. With its distinctive detailed and multi-faceted analyses, it offers new findings on the changing contours of sovereignty, geopolitics and ideology, particularly after the Arab Uprisings. Overall this volume contributes to the study of violent geopolitics, critical security studies and international relations particularly by exploring the ideologies and strategies of the new non-state armed actors.
Lebanon and Turkey
No empire or a regional power has helped mold the socio-political and religious landscape of a country as the Ottoman Empire and its heir (the Republic of Turkey) have helped shape modern Lebanon, yet no contemporary study has examined Lebanon-Turkey relations back to Ottoman rule of Lebanon. As such, the understanding of this historic and contemporaneous relationship is deficient. This text fills this gap, examining patterns and shifts in Lebanon-Turkey relations within the context of regional and international politics from Ottoman rule to Turkey’s AKP-led governments. This comprehensive account of Lebanon-Turkey relations—grounded in layers of cultural, political, demographic, economic, and sectarian complexities and changes across centuries—analyzes the developments and dynamics that have helped shape modern Lebanon and its confessional system and politics. It underscores the misconceptions and lessons learned from this long-term relationship, locating Lebanon-Turkey relations along a historical continuum.
A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy
This book offers an analysis of Turkish foreign policy based on transnational(ist) perspectives. In order to counterbalance the state-centric accounts that dominate this area of study, the authors provide theoretical frameworks as well as historical and contemporary case studies that emphasize transnational dynamics. The content is divided into four complementary sections that explain and exemplify transnational (f)actors in the context of Turkish foreign policy. The first addresses theoretical and ideational frameworks that illustrate the relevance of a transnational account, while the second demonstrates the possibility of developing transnationally oriented approaches even in historical cases, going beyond a presentist focus. In the third and fourth sections, the book focuses on two prominent non-state actors, namely diaspora communities and non-governmental organizations, which operate at the interstices of the domestic and the international. This allows the authors to highlight the significance of transnational dynamics in Turkey’s foreign policy.
From Alliance to Union
After the conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - joined forces on 25 May 1981 within the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), few fathomed that security requirements on and around the Arabian Peninsula would be so precarious and for so long. To answer their search for permanent stability, Arab Gulf rulers erected a regional alliance that sought to integrate internal and regional defences, as well as strengthen their existing socio-economic ties. Several of the monarchies even hoped that co-ordination on foreign policy issues over which near unanimity existed could, eventually, lead to a full-fledged union as envisaged i...
Empire of Refugees
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman histo...
Kurdish Studies Archive
Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidisciplinary fashion covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, economics, history, society, gender, minorities, politics, health, law, environment, language, media, culture, arts, and education.
Quicksilver War
A renowned historian of the Levant offers a panoramic account of the intertwined, borderless wars wracking Syria and Iraq. The book's most original feature is addressing the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts as a single conflict area.
Handbook Of Terrorism In The Middle East
In the Middle East, the world's deadliest organizations, the Islamic State and al Qaeda have firmly established their presence in the Levant and the Gulf. In parallel, state- sponsored Shia threat networks, groups and cells, notably the Lebanese Hezbollah and Houthis operate throughout the Middle East and beyond. Exploiting the conflict zones and their cascading ideologies, both the Sunni and Shia threat entities compete to advance their own interests. Their parent and affiliate entities recruit and radicalise both territorial and diaspora Muslims to fight each other. Unless governments work together to mitigate the threat at the core and the edge, the Middle East and its peripheral territor...
Ortadoğu Analiz Sayı: 302 / Sadr’ın İstifa Hamlesi ve Sonrası
Irak’ta 2018 yılında yapılan parlamento seçimlerinin ardından ülkede ilk kez parlamentoya girmeye hak kazanan bütün partilerin temsil edilmediği, parlamento içi muhalefetin oluşacağı bir çoğunluk hükûmeti kurulmak istenmiştir. Ancak seçimlerin ardından parlamentodaki en büyük grup, gruplar arası milletvekilleri geçişi nedeniyle tespit edilememiştir. Bu durumda, en büyük iki blok olan Sairun (Sadr Hareketi) Koalisyonu ve Fetih Koalisyonu hangisinin daha büyük olduğunun belirlenememesi nedeniyle uzlaşı adayı olan eski Irak Cumhurbaşkanı Yardımcısı Adil Abdulmehdi tarafından hükûmet kurulmuştur. Ancak Abdulmehdi hükûmeti, Ekim 2019 tarihinde başla...
Ortadoğu Analiz Sayı: 124 / Ortadoğu'da Asya Çekişmesi
Değerli okuyucular, Ortadoğu ve Kuzey Afrika bölgesindeki temel meseleleri ve güncel gelişmeleri ayda bir kapsamlı analizlerle ilginize sunduğumuz Ortadoğu Analiz’in 124. sayısıyla karşınızda olmaktan memnuniyet duymaktayız. Bu sayıda Ortadoğu ve Kuzey Afrika bölgesinde Asya ülkelerinin rekabetine, bölgede kurulan ilişkilere ve diğer tüm meselelere yönelik genel değerlendirmeleri dikkatinize sunmaktayız. Buradan hareketle Japonya-Çin rekabetinin Ortadoğu yansımaları, Çin’in bölgedeki yeni grand stratejisi, Hindistan ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin (ABD) Ortadoğu bağlamında iş birliği, Çinli şirketlerin Mısrata serbest bölgesine yönelimi ve S...
