Ozgur Unluhisarcikli | 02 September 2019
Frustration with the United States’ failure to make Turkey an attractive offer for Patriot missiles has been critical in Turkey’s decision to buy the S-400 long-range missile system from Russia. Additionally, we know that Turkey [...]
Mensur Akgun | 02 September 2019
It is well known that Turkey has long sought to purchase long-range anti-ballistic missiles and American Patriot missiles had been on its shopping list since the early 1990s. However, Turkey could not reach an agreement [...]
Burak Bilgehan Ozpek | 02 September 2019
After months of stalemate in relations between Turkey and the United States, Turkey has purchased S-400 long-range air defense missiles from Russia. Turkish authorities have been justifying the decision with the national security of the [...]
Nabeel Odeh | 02 September 2019
Ever since President Trump took office, tensions with Iran have been escalating. In 2018 the United States unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, before beginning to follow a big stick policy [...]
Omer Aslan | 29 August 2019 | AR | TR
Prime Minister Modi’s government in India has revoked the state of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status from the temporary provisions of the Indian Constitution.
Nesibe Hicret Battaloglu | 27 August 2019
In her book Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies, Courtney Freer provides a comprehensive study of the emergence and evolution of branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf. [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 26 August 2019 | TR
After months of deadlock, Turkey and the US have finally reached an agreement on the establishment of a safe zone in Northern Syria, an issue which has been on the agenda of the Turkish [...]
Harun Karcic | 15 August 2019
Jocelyne Cesari’s What is Political Islam? is a timely book that provides an insightful framework for analyzing the relationship between modern Muslim-majority states and Islam. The book is essentially a genealogy of the evolution of [...]
Nurbanu Dursun | 15 August 2019
Islamic Activism is a collaborative study of the intersection of social movement theory and political Islamism. It is an edited book that brings various disciplines and important articles under one roof, from comparative politics, security [...]
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