The Politics of Ethnicity and Minority Regimes in the Middle East
Identities, Nationalism, and the State: The Politics of Ethnicity and Minority Regimes in the Middle East, calls attention to the question of how minorities position and represent themselves during and after regime transitions and the dilemmas that minorities pose to regime change and how social cleavages shape minority preferences for regime ......
The recent turbulence in Turkish-American relations has once more drawn attention to the nature of the seventy-year-old alliance between Turkey and the United States. This elaborative study demonstrates that turbulence is not a novelty in bilateral relations.
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction explores Islamophobia as a manifestation of racism by deconstructing selected literary works. Through the works of Lorrain Adams, John Updike and Don Delillo, the author proposes a thorough discursive understanding of Islam as a code of life.
Nation Building and Genocide as a Civilizing and De-Civilizing Process
The origins of the Kurdish Genocide in Iraq based on unilateral nation building and the ethno-Arab-centrism in the frame of pan Arab ideology of Baathism.
"Tajik Civil War is defined as a mulit-aspect and multi-level armed conflict, which often takes place after the collapse of empires or during transition from one social order to another. It is also an example of incomplete peace when the end of open violence fails to resolve the conflict-generating factors that brought the country to the civil ......
Popular Culture and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey and the Valley of the Wolves: Ambush analyzes Turkish Foreign Policy from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to understand and discuss how foreign policy discourses can be reproduced by a popular television series and consequently produce consent for certain foreign policies.
Boycott Theory for Palestine aims to advance academic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) by presenting the fullest and most sophisticated justification for it yet given, demonstrating how the boycott relates to current debates within contemporary political and intellectual life.
A Land Torn in Two, Zionism and the Infancy of Ideas (1897-1918)
This volume analyzes the early period of the Arab-Israeli conflict (1897-1948), which encompasses the emergence of the Zionist movement, the spread of Western colonialism, and the end of the First World War.
