Middle East Politics

Turkey is emerging as an important regional and global actor in world politics, with important interests in Europe, the Middle East, Eurasia, and Africa. This book examines new developments in Turkish foreign policy across a range of issues, addressing both the scope and limits to Turkish power and ..

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2002. This book charts the rise and development of the most successful party with an Islamic background in the history of the Turkish Republic party from its roots through to government, analysing in particular its internal organisation..

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2002. This book charts the rise and development of the most successful party with an Islamic background in the history of the Turkish Republic party from its roots through to government, analysing in particular its internal organisation..

This book presents a new critical re-description of Turkish-Greek rapprochement processes over a lengthy time span (1974-2010), offering innovative explanations for the emergence of the reconciliation movement, examining its successes and failures, prospects and predicaments...

This book presents a new critical re-description of Turkish-Greek rapprochement processes over a lengthy time span (1974-2010), offering innovative explanations for the emergence of the reconciliation movement, examining its successes and failures, prospects and predicaments...

Based on selected papers from mostly Asian scholars, this book offers regional perspectives from South, Southeast and Northeast Asia on the changing nature of UN Peace Operations...

United States Foreign Policy and the Middle East/North Africa..

Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context, and American Foreign policy in particular. However, the exact nature of the US’s presence in the Arab world has reached a crossroads. The book traces the US’s "power of..

This book offers a fresh look into the communication strategy of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, focusing on published periodicals, biographies and websites that represent the voice of the Brotherhood. It analyses the core mission of the Brotherhood, namely its da`wa (call) - how it is articulated ..

This book offers a fresh look into the communication strategy of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, focusing on published periodicals, biographies and websites that represent the voice of the Brotherhood. It analyses the core mission of the Brotherhood, namely its da`wa (call) - how it is articulated ..

Providing a brief history of Islam as a religion and as socio-political ideology, this book presents the historical and political context to explain acts of terror including the September 11th attacks and the bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi and Dar as Salaam and the West's responses...

This book examines Western foreign policy towards the Middle East, and the extent to which the promotion of democracy has been in conflict with, or supported by, other goals (geo-strategic, economic, and cultural) in the policies of the major actors towards the Middle East. However, the various cont..