Armies of Women: The Syria Crisis and the New War Thesis
The Syrian Civil War constitutes a “new war” from the feminist perspective when it is contextualised within the literature of the new war debate.
The Instrumentalization of Energy and Arms Sales in Russia’s Middle East Policy
Energy cooperation and arms sales to the Middle East have emerged as key foreign policy instruments for Russia in its attempted re-emergence as a Great Power.
Violence and Political Order: Galtung, Arendt and Anderson on the Nation-State
The nation-state’s monopoly of violence means that the two are inextricably linked, with nationalism being the basis of political order.
Were Fukuyama, Mearsheimer or Huntington Right about the Post-Cold War Era?
The prospective claims made by Fukuyama, Mearsheimer and Huntington are insufficient to adequately describe post-Cold War international relations.
“Sanctions Are Coming”: Fear and Iranophobia in American Foreign Policy
Iran’s characterization as a great threat in the Middle East is largely a result of institutionalized “Iranophobia” within American foreign policy.
Beyond Black Flags: Daesh as a Framework for Strategic Identity Analysis
Strategic culture analysis’ inability to properly approach non-state actors as a unit of analysis means that modern asymmetric conflicts, such as with ISIS/Daesh, are rendered incomprehensible.
The Governance of Savagery: International Society, Sovereignty and the Islamic State
The gap between the analytical tools of IR and its epistemological western framework has contributed to the failure to predict major ‘upheavals’ in the Middle East.
Perpetual Conflict of ‘Turkishness’: The Turkish State and its Minority Groups.
Turkishness identity has an effect on the social/legal spheres of its state relations and has Othered the largest ethnic/religious minorities, the Kurds and the Alevis.
(Re)Shaping Territories to Identities: Is the Middle East a Colonial Invention?
Orientalism served as a basis of colonial thought and activity that enabled and justified the intervention of the ‘Middle East’ without considering different identities.
The Spread of Islamic Terror in the Contemporary World
The crux of the spread of terrorism lies individual leaders being able to anchor terrorist groups in weak states and use modern communication technologies effectively.
