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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]