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The Turkish-Israeli Relationship
Author: O. Bengio
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-05-13
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1403979456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Turkey and Israel are two of the most important countries in the Middle East, but also are outsiders to the region for political and cultural reasons. Here Bengio examines the historic, geo-strategic and political-cultural roots of the Turkish-Israeli relationship, from the 1950s until today. Linking the relationship's evolution to the complexities of Turkey's historical ties with the Arab world, and changing domestic, regional and global conditions, the book traces the ebb and flow of the curious ties between the two countries. Bengio calls for a significant revision in the received wisdom about inter-Arab and Arab-Israeli conflicts and rivalries, placing Turkey in a more central role. The book approaches Middle Eastern affairs from inside the region, based on Turkish, Israeli and Arab sources, providing a much needed corrective to American - and British - centered accounts.
Jews, Arabs, Turks
Author: Jacob M. Landau
Publisher: Magnes Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This selection of essays has been selected among those published by Jacob M. Landau in the last forty years, covering Middle Eastern historical events and related current issues. The studies are grouped according to the following divisions: Jews in Muslim lands; Arabic writings; Ottoman history; Turkish politics; Politicolinguistics; Elections in Israel and Turkey. The focus on the Middle East is the integrating factor.
Arab Image In Modern Turkey;Memory, Popular Culture and Public Perception
Author: Talip Küçükcan
Publisher: Çamlıca Yayınları
Published: 2023-05-23
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 6258427251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite the long history of Turkish-Arab relations, deep-rooted cultural links, and the many common interests of Turks and Arabs in politics, economics, and security, there is a dearth of research on Turkish-Arab relations in general and the Turkish public's perception of Arabs in particular. Arab Image in Modern Turkey: Memory, Popular Culture and Public Perception aims to show the sources and current shape of the prevailing views about Arabs among the Turkish public. The book analyzes the narratives about the Arab world in history and geography textbooks taught in primary and secondary education institutions since the early years of the Republic and shows how Arabs and Arab culture are portrayed. Based on the assumption that movies also play an important role in the formation of images, the image of Arabs in Turkish movies was examined, and interviews with screenwriters and directors were conducted to discuss the view of Arabs in Turkish cinema. On the other hand, a comprehensive survey was conducted throughout Turkey to determine the prevailing images of Arab language, culture, history and politics in Turkish public opinion. Arab Image in Modern Turkey: Memory, Popular Culture and Public Perception aims to contribute to the development of Turkish-Arab relations with its original data and analysis.
Politics of Change in Middle East and North Africa since Arab Spring
Author: Md. Muddassir Quamar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-12-29
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1000833682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A decade since the eruption of Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa, the region continues to confront the primary causes of the popular disenchantment including economic deprivation, bad governance, corruption and limited avenues for political expression. Democratisation, the buzzword in 2011 has given way to debates around conflict management and resolution. Simultaneously, there are mounting economic challenges throughout the region that have been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. But there are some silver linings such as a focus on reforms, greater scrutiny against corruption, demand for better governance, and awareness regarding women empowerment and rights of minorities. The volume, Politics of Change in the Middle East and North Africa since Arab Spring: A Lost Decade?, commemorates the ten years of the eruption of Arab Spring protests. It captures some of the prevailing political, economic, strategic and social issues in MENA through thematic or country-specific essays that explore the ongoing transformations and underline how despite the hopelessness, the MENA societies have made progress on various fronts. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan).
Islamic Attitudes to Israel
Author: Efraim Karsh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1317996518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book draws on the research of some of the leading scholars in the fields of Jewish-Islamic relations, the Israeli-Arab conflict and political Islam. These highly topical essays examine the relationship between Israel and the Islamic world from both a thematic and geo-strategic perspective. Divided into two distinct sections, the first section of the book deals with issues relating to contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations and, in particular, looks at the attitude towards the Jewish state amongst opinion-makers, religious institutions and leaders in the Muslim world. Key issues such as the Islamic attitude to Palestinian suicide-bombing, and Arab anti-Semitism are addressed here. The second section examines the attitude of key Muslim nations – Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan – to the Jewish state, and charts the evolving, bilateral relationship between these nations and Israel from the birth of the Jewish State in 1948 up to the present day. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Israel Affairs.
Demystifying Syria
Author: Fred H. Lawson
Publisher: Saqi
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0863568181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Demystifying Syria offers an extraordinary insight into the shifting relations between the Ba'th party and the armed forces, civil law, social structure, burgeoning private enterprise, internal political opposition, the European Union and its relation to Syria. This book goes beyond the headlines to offer a detailed portrait of the political, economic, social and diplomatic dynami that shape this pivotal and fiercely independent Middle Eastern state. Contributors include Bassem Haddad, Souhail Belhadj, Baudoin Dupret, Zouhair Ghazzal, Thomas Pierret, Salwa Ismail, Joshua Landis and Joe Pace. 'Demonstrates how US intervention in the region weakened the position of the Syrian opposition ... shows Syrian studies in the best possible light, edited to a high level and recommended to everyone interested in the complexities - rather than the mysteries - of contemporary Syria.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'This compelling book offers the reader much food for thought on a country that certainly defies any attempt to be encapsulated in unidirectional and straightforward definitions.' International Spectator
Defending Israel
Author: Martin van Creveld
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 146686575X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Israel is a tiny country. From tip to toe, it stretches 260 miles long but is only 60 miles at its widest point. Since the days of the British mandate, the question of "defensible borders" for the Jewish state has always been problematic. Yet considering the larger picture of what has happened in the Middle East over the last 25 years -- the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, the weakening of Syria as a result of the collapse of the USSR, the smashing of Iraq by the U.S. -- Israel is, militarily speaking, stronger than ever before. The greatest remaining threats are terrorism and guerilla warfare; and those, this book argues, are best dealt with territorial concessions. Martin van Creveld's Defending Israel is a compact, incisive study that is certain to draw attention.
EU Influence Beyond Conditionality
Author: Mario Zucconi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 3030255603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents an in-depth analysis of the role played by the EU accession process in Turkey’s democratic evolution and in the empowerment of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s. Often moving against the grain of consolidated analytical positions, the author finds that the accession process can have a critical impact on the political evolution and institutional setting of an aspiring member state that goes well beyond the simple Europeanization process (or EU accession conditionality). In the case of Turkey, that process created the essential conditions and environment for the country’s political modernization by helping the emergence of a “periphery” (including Kurds, “conservative” Muslims and non-Muslims) that secularism had pushed into a marginal, secondary status in Turkish society. Turkey’s gradual evolution in an authoritarian direction, following the stalling of the EU accession process, offers further proof of the decisive role that the EU accession can play in a country’s democratic advancement. The book additionally indicates how Turkey’s EU-driven democratic evolution for a number of years had important implications in terms of regional and global order.
Turkey-Syria Relations
Author: Özlem Tür
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-17
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1317005953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1997 Turkey and Syria were on the brink of war, engaged in a very real power struggle. Turkey was aligned with Syria's main enemy, Israel, and there were seemingly intractable differences on the issues of borders, the sharing of river waters and trans-border communities. In less than a decade, relations were transformed from enmity to amity. Border issues and water sharing quarrels were moving towards amicable settlement and the two states' policies toward the Kurdish issue converging. Turkey undertook to mediate the Syrian-Israeli conflict and close political and economic relations were developing rapidly between the two states. Yet, with the Syrian Uprising, relations returned to enmity. What explains these remarkable changes? Given that Turkey and Syria are two pivotal states in the region, what are the implications of this changing relationship for the international politics of the Middle East, the balance of power and regional stability? In this internationally collaborative work, co-edited by Raymond Hinnebusch and Özlem Tür, British, Syrian and Turkish scholars address these questions and examine the various domestic and international drivers in this key regional relationship. They discuss what theories best help us understand these seismic realignments and explore the impact of economic interdependence, identity changes and power balances on the evolving relationship between these two key regional powers.
