Al Sharq Strategic Research | 18 December 2020
On the tenth anniversary of the Arab Uprisings, Al Sharq Strategic Research invites book reviews around the Uprisings and their aftermath. If you would like to contribute, kindly choose one of the books enlisted
Ramazan Oduncu | 27 February 2020
Shiraz Maher, Salafi Jihadism: The History of An Idea When Salafi thought is examined within the historical framework, we see that it presents diversity within itself, and especially in English-speaking western academia, studies have been [...]
Nesibe Hicret Battaloglu | 03 February 2020
In this timely work, Qulliam and Thompson delve into the policy making and governance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states covering different thematic issues and individual case studies. The GCC states have come to [...]
Ahmet Yusuf Özdemir | 27 January 2020
Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2012, international security and terrorism literature has labelled a rather old phenomenon with a novel term; foreign fighters.
Saman Madadi | 06 January 2020
In ‘What is Russia up to in the Middle East’ published in 2018 by Polity Press, Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, takes readers on an encompassing journey toward Russia’s motivations to get [...]
Mustafa Kaymaz | 02 January 2020
In her book, Hezbollah: Mobilization and Power, Aurélie Daher[1] attempts to explain how Hezbollah sustains its mobilization efforts and bond with its public. She employs a meaning-making approach because she thinks that the other factors, [...]
Marian Karagyozov | 31 December 2019
Mehran Kamrava, Inside the Arab State The protest wave which shook many states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 has changed both [...]
Ralitsa Trifonova | 25 December 2019
Ever since independence, the military has played an important role in the politics of many countries in Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With time, this influential actor has also become a significant economic player, [...]
Mehmet Akif Koc | 24 December 2019
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (ed.), The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf Strategically located and geopolitically important, the Middle East forms a natural bridge between the three oldest continents (Asia, Europe and Africa) in terms [...]
