...Robert J. Pranger Kemal H. Karpat: The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 533 pages. ISBN 0-19-513618-7.$50.00. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant specializing in the management...

...J. S. Krasna Reports of the demise of the Arab state have been exaggerated, despite claims that the postcolonial, state-based paradigm is collapsing under the pressure of “people power,” the resurgence of premodern loyalties, and the rise of nonstate actors. Even Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic...

...Prem Shankar Jha Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Prem Shankar Jha is former editor of the Hindustan Times and India correspondent for the Economist . MQ 11.3-03.Jha 7/20/00 3:07 PM Page 62 In Defense of the Westphalian State...

... The Social Origins of Balkan Politics: Nationalism, Underdevelopment, and the Nation-State in Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, 1880–1920 Victor Roudometof What is...

...Robert J. Pranger Ali Shakoori: The State and Rural Development in Post-Revolutionary Iran . New York and Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2001. 217 pages. ISBN 0-333-77613-5. $65. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant specializing in the management of international resources. He was formerly...

...Ron Paul Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Ron Paul is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas. Trading Freedom for Security: Drifting toward a Police State Ron Paul Most Americans believe we live in dangerous times, and I...

.... The author wishes to give special thanks to Brigid O'Neil for valuable research assistance. Bush’s Wars and the State of Civil Liberties Ivan Eland President George W. Bush, after no weapons of mass destruction were uncov- ered in Iraq, fell back on the “liberation of...

...Francis M. Deng Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Francis M. Deng is the special representative of the UN secretary-general for internally displaced persons. The Impact of State Failure on Migration Francis M. Deng State failure is a matter of degree. A successful...

...Robert Olson 2006 Robert Olson is professor of Middle East politics at the University of Kentucky. Turkey’s Policies Toward Kurdistan-Iraq and Iraq: Nationalism, Capitalism, and State Formation Robert Olson In this essay I analyze Turkey’s policies toward...

...Robert J. Pranger Robert Olson: The Goat and the Butcher: Nationalism and State Formation in Kurdistan-Iraq since the Iraqi War . Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2005. 278 pages. ISBN 1-56859-186-1. $35.00. Reviewed by Robert J. Pranger. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant with...

...Robert J. Pranger Bat Ye'or: Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis . Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. 384 pages. ISBN 0-8386-4077-X. $23.95. Raffaella A. Del Sarto: Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006...

...Marijan Gubic Monique O'Connell: Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State . Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. 264 pages. ISBN 978-0-8018-9145-8. $55.00 (hardcover). Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Marijan Gubic is the minister and deputy chief of...

...Zoltan Barany The turmoil associated with the Arab Spring in the region’s eight monarchies has received comparatively modest attention because, aside from Bahrain, the demonstrations were mostly small and nonconfrontational, there were few calls to overthrow the regimes, and states’ coercive powers...

... “integral Kosovo” position in Serbia resigned themselves to the compromise. The central argument is that states seek to secure mobility not only for economic reasons but also to mark themselves as normal, respectable members of the international community. Serbia’s visa waiver decision provides a lens with...

...Lukáš Tichý This essay focuses on the global terrorist and militant group the Islamic State (IS), specifically on its use of terrorism targeting the energy sector as a strategic political instrument in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2014–16. The essay has two main thrusts. First, it...

...C. Edward Dillery Metin Heper: The State and Kurds in Turkey: The Question of Assimilation . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 249 pages. ISBN 13:978-0-333-64628-1 (hbk). $84.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2009 C. Edward Dillery is a retired US Foreign Service officer who served as...

... the first time, was a second, then the recent developments concerning Ergenekon , a layer of an undiscovered world of the Turkish deep state, is the third of its kind. Until almost the end of the 1990s, most Turks were oblivious to the somewhat enigmatic concept of a state within a state. In the days...

... Islam. Ishtiaq Ahmed : The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolution, Consequences (1947-2011) . Karachi, Pakistan : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 508 pages . ISBN-10: 0-1990-6636-1 , ISBN-13: 978-0-1990-6636-0 . $45 ( hardcover ). Copyright 2013 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2013...

... Greek state is forced to undergo holistic austerity. This essay supports the view that Greece is a failing state: it suffers a systemic ailment and declines rapidly but has not yet reached its bottom. It can reemerge as a healthy state, but only if a “grand strategy” is applied. This essay scrutinizes...

... Joining the Islamic State Barbara Franz “I ignite the bomb in the center of the crowd,” announces the German jihad- ist and former rapper Denis Cuspert in his song “Abu al Amlani” (I’m wait- ing for death). Cuspert, alias Deso Dogg, now calls himself Abu Talha al-­ Alman and broadcasts...