|
All material copyright MERIA. You must credit if quoting and ask permission to reprint.
The New GLORIA Hebrew Website
The GLORIA Center is pleased to announce the launch of its new Hebrew website. To view, click here.
Recently Published Articles by the GLORIA Staff
The GLORIA Center website http://gloria.idc.ac.il is updated almost daily with new items. To view the most recent items, click here.
The Truth About Syria by Barry Rubin
Barry Rubin, The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007). 304 pages. $24.95. ISBN: 1-4039-8273-2. In all the world's and especially the Middle East's major issues, Syria plays a central role. This book provides a comprehensive explanation of Syria's regime, interests, policies, and society. In turn, Syria provides a model for understanding the Arab and Muslim worlds today. While the Syrian regime poses as desiring peace and engagement with the West, in fact, its institutions, ideology, propaganda, and activities go in the exact opposite direction. To survive, the minority-dominated, dictatorial, and economically incompetent government needs radicalism, instability, anti-Americanism, Lebanon as a strategic and economic asset, and Israel as a scapegoat. This book explains the country's policies and problems in a systematic way. To order, click here. For a review copy, contact: Ellis.Trevor@stmartins.com. For publicity information, contact: william.smith@stmartins.com.
Lee Harris on The Truth About Syria by Barry Rubin
Lee Harris' review of Barry Rubin’s The Truth About Syria, "The Cycle of Wishful Thinking," is available in Policy Focus (October-November 2007). Lee Harris is the author of The Suicide of Reason: Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History and a frequent contributor to Policy Review, the Wall Street Journal's "Opinion Journal," and other publications, both print and online. To read the review, visit the GLORIA site or click here.
Table of Contents for MERIA Journal, Volume 11, Number 4 (December 2007)
The December 2007 issue of MERIA Journal will be out shortly and sent to all subscribers. The following articles will appear:
- Mark N. Katz, “Russia and Qatar”
- Gary Gambill, “Islamist Groups in Lebanon”
- Alireza Asgharzadeh, “Azerbaijan and the Challenge of Multiple Identities: In Search of a Global Soul”
- Evagoras C. Leventis, “The Waziristan Accord”
- Barry Rubin, “Iran’s Nuclear and Syria’s Iraq Adventures”
- Samir Ben-Layashi, “Moroccan’s 2007 Elections: A Social Reading”
- Aram Rafaat, “U.S.-Kurdish Relations in Post-Invasion Iraq”
MERIA Journal: Call for Papers
The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal is calling for papers. MERIA is the most widely read academic journal on the Middle East in the world, with some 25,000 readers in more than 100 countries. The journal is indexed in Index Islamicus and CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Article submissions should deal with the politics, society, history, economics, and other areas of the modern Middle East (twentieth and twenty-first centuries). Submission guidelines are available at: http://meria.idc.ac.il/article-submissions.html. Submissions, queries, and subscription requests should be sent to: gloria@idc.ac.il. To see previous MERIA Journal issues, visit: http://meria.idc.ac.il.
Table of Contents for Turkish Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (March 2008)
The Spring 2008 issue of Turkish Studies will be available soon. The following articles will appear:
-
Tarik Oğuzlu, “Middle Easternization of Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Does Turkey Dissociate from the West?”
-
Paul Kubicek, “Turkey's Inclusion in the Atlantic Community: Looking Back, Looking Forward”
-
Michelangelo Guida, “The Sèvres Syndrome and ‘Komplo’ Theories in the Islamist and Secular Press”
-
Yüksel Taşkın, “AKP’s Move to ‘Conquer’ the Center-Right: Its Prospects and Possible Impacts on the Democratization Process”
-
Emrullah Uslu, “Ulusalcılik: The Neo-Nationalist Resurgence in Turkey”
-
Özlem Demirtaş Bagdonas, “The Clash of Kemalisms?: Reflections on the Past and the Present Politics of Kemalism in Turkish Political Discourse”
-
Toni Alaranta, “Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s Six-Day Speech of 1927: Defining the Official Historical View of the Foundation of the Turkish Republic”
-
Sule L. Aker, “Major Determinants of Imports in Turkey”
-
Arzu Alvan, “An Analysis of the Growth of the Turkish Manufacturing Industry”
The following book reviews will also appear:
-
Sina Akşin, Turkey from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to Present. Reviewed by Nur Bilge Criss
-
Sam Kaplan, The Pedagogical State: Education and Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey. Reviewed by Metin Heper
-
Hovann H. Simonian (ed.), The Hemshin: History, Society, and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey. Reviewed by Michael E. Meeker
-
M. Hakan Yavuz (ed.), The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti. Reviewed by Frank Tachau
-
Justin McCarthy, Esat Arslan, Cemalettin Taskiran, and Omer Turan, The Armenian Rebellion at Van. Reviewed by Norman Stone
Turkish Studies Journal: Call for Papers, Subscriptions, Book Review
Turkish Studies invites submissions for forthcoming issues. The journal, produced by the GLORIA Center's Turkish Studies Institute, is peer-reviewed and is published three times a year (March, June, September) by Taylor & Francis. Articles may deal with any aspect regarding the modern era of the Turkish Republic, including the fields of political science, international relations, history, economics, sociology, and other relevant topics. Submissions should be between 5,000-7,500 words and should include a 100-word abstract, as well as the full title and affiliation of the author. To submit a manuscript for consideration, please email it as a Word document to: profbarryrubin@yahoo.com. For more information and to view our style guide, please visit the Turkish Studies Institute's website at: http://gloria.idc.ac.il/tsi/ts/submit.html.
To notify us of a new or forthcoming book for review, please contact: amelman@idc.ac.il. To subscribe, contact: tf.enquiries@informa.com or visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/subscription.asp. For more information regarding the publications, activities, and resources of the GLORIA Center's Turkish Studies Institute, visit: http://tsi.idc.ac.il.
The Israeli Military and the Origins of the 1967 War: Government, Armed Forces and Defense Policy 1963-67
Ami Gluska, The Israeli Military and the Origins of the 1967 War: Government, Armed Forces and Defense Policy 1963-67, (Routledge, 2006). 324 pages. ISBN: 0415392454. The book is part of the Middle Eastern Military Studies series edited by Barry Rubin. The author discusses the effect of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Israel's defense policy between 1963-1967 against the backdrop of the developments in the Middle East. In addition, he describes in detail the decisionmaking process leading to the Arab-Israeli Six Day War in June 1967 through the prism of the relations between the military and political echelons. He shows how the Six Day War was a watershed event in the Middle-Eastern conflict and had a profound effect on the development of the Palestinian problem and the character of the State of Israel over the past four decades. For details and to order, click here.
Political Islam. Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies edited by Barry Rubin
Barry Rubin (ed.), Political Islam. Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (Routledge, 2006). 3 volumes. 1440 pages. Hardcover: $1075. ISBN: 978-0415404532. This is a new three-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. "Political Islam" here refers to political movements that argue that the state must be based on their interpretation of Islamic law, viewing this as an alternative to Arab nationalist, traditional monarchist, or semi-secular democratic states. Such movements may seek power through violence or elections. Some groups are reformist movements which participate within democratic processes much in the way Christian Democratic parties do in Europe. Others model themselves as "jihadists" who put more of an emphasis on attacking the West as the principal problem rather than on the local governments they seek to overthrow. Through terrorist attacks and other means, the movement has also had a great global effect, and it has become a matter of the greatest interest for Western governments. Bringing together canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship in one useful reference resource, the shortcomings as well as the successes of Islamism are fully examined in this collection. For further information and to order, click here.
"Arab Regimes Respond to Democracy's Challenge," by Barry Rubin
Barry Rubin, "Arab Regimes Respond to Democracy's Challenge." The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus, No. 75 (September 2007). To view the full article, please visit: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=282.
"British Policy in the Arab-Israeli Arena 1973-2004," by Jonathan Rynhold and Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Rynhold and Jonathan Spyer, "British Policy in the Arab-Israeli Arena 1973-2004." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, (August 2007), pp. 137-55. To view the full article, please visit: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13530190701427891.
PUBLICATIONS BY MERIA AUTHORS
A. Books
Charles G. MacDonald and Carole A. O'Leary (eds.), Kurdish Identity, Human Rights and Political Status (University Press of Florida, 2007). 336 pages. Hardcover: $65. ISBN: 978 0 8130 3084 5. The book is a timely and important assessment of the Kurdish issue in all its aspects in a global context. For further information and to order, click here.
B. Journals, Newsletters, Papers
Aziz Enhalili, "Les élections législatives de septembre 2007 et l’hypothèse d’un raz-de-marée islamiste au Maroc," Europe 2020, August 2007. To view the article, click here.
Aziz Enhalili, "Maroc-Maghreb: Constitution transitionnelle et réconciliation nationale." Confluences Méditerranée, No. 62, (Summer 2007). To view the article, click here.
MERIA Staff
*Serving Readers throughout the Middle East and in 100 Countries*
Publisher and Editor: Barry Rubin. Assistant Editors: Yeru Aharoni, Anna Melman, Revital Karin Sela.
Turkish Representative: Ozgul Erdemli.
Webmaster: Tsadok Blok
MERIA is indexed in the SOAS Library in London's Index Islamicus,
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, and HW Wilson's Social Sciences Index.
MERIA is a project of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. Site: http://meria.idc.ac.il. Email: meria@idc.ac.il.
|
