Days before parliamentary elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has declared that under his government the Israeli government would not relinquish control of the Jordan Valley and other parts of ...
Teaching Tools provides resources and information on current events and policies that educators can use to introduce complex geopolitical, religious, and cultural situations in the Middle East to young learners. ...
The agreement between the United States and Turkey to establish a “peace corridor” or safe zone in northern Syria appears to be holding for the moment. Last month’s agreement envisioned ...
In 2018, after the suppression of the Green Movement following the disputed presidential election of 2009, Iran witnessed another wave of uprisings.
This article argues that President Putin's securitization agenda stems from the second Chechen War and is far more pragmatic concerning Russian engagement in the Middle East than former Soviet policies.
The onset of the so-called Arab Spring in late 2010 took governments around the world by surprise, and Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) government was no exception.
The literature on the protracted struggle between Jews and Arabs over Palestine is voluminous.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Israel experienced a core transformation of its political orientations and discourse. This resulted in a new “foreign-policy consensus” that was ingrained in the philosophy of being under constant siege, politically and ideologically (p. 74).
The Turkishness Contract provides readers with innovative concepts and new ways of thinking about Turkey’s chronic and pervasive democratization problems and minority-rights issues.
