The 21st Issue of The Rest: Journal of Politics and Development is Out Now!
The 21st issue of the rest: journal of politics and development is out now. Download the issue here… TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Articles The Impact of Jihadist Propaganda in the Russian Language: Analysis of Kavkazcenter By Giuliano Bifolchi Domestic Politics and Regional Dynamics in Turkey’s Geopolitical Approach to the Middle EastContinue Reading
The Impact of Jihadist Propaganda in the Russian Language: Analysis of Kavkazcenter
Giuliano Bifolchi * The Co-founder and the Director of ASRIE Analytica giuliano.bifolchi@gmail.com 2021 | vol 11(1) | 6-14 ABSTRACT Terrorism and jihadist propaganda are among the primary threats of the contemporary era. Because of the high number of foreign fighters from the post-Soviet republics among the rank of theContinue Reading
Domestic Politics and Regional Dynamics in Turkey’s Geopolitical Approach to the Middle East Between 2002-2019
Billy Agwanda Graduate student at Istanbul Commerce University | Orcid: 0000-0002-8915-6057 ABSTRACT During the last two decades, key reforms in social, economic, and political structures have elevated Turkey into a rising regional power. In the Middle East, the increasing influence of Turkey for a better part of the last twoContinue Reading
Foreign Direct Investment, Gross Domestic Product, and Export Nexus in Turkey: Autoregressive Distributed Lag Bounds Model and Granger Causality Approach
Bayram Güngör Prof. Dr., Department of Economics at Karadeniz Technical University | bgungor@ktu.edu.tr; Researcher ID: AAW-8829-2020; ORCID: 0000-0001-8160-0355 2021 | vol 11(1) | 30-42 ABSTRACT The relationship among the FDI, GDP and Export has gained vast attention among the researchers and policy-makers. There are many studies on the interactionContinue Reading
Power Transition in the South China Sea Challenges for Regional Peace
Suman Naz* & Muhammad Rizwan** * MS in International Relations from COMSATS University Islamabad | sumannaz90@gmail.com ** Corresponding author | Research Scholar of MS international Relations at COMSATS University Islamabad | Rizwan.malik444@yahoo.com 2021 | vol 11(1) | 44-51 Abstract The South China Sea is a contested region between China andContinue Reading
Book Review: The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (The Brookings Institution, Washington, 2014. 288 pages. $27.70. ISBN: 9780815721512.) The Metropolitan Revolution describes a new relationship between levels of government in the United States. It is essential to expressContinue Reading
Book Review: The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road
Richard Pomfret The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road (Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-691-18221-6, 328 pp., $45.00 / £38.00) Central Asia is of strategic importance to many countries, in particular Russia and China. Russia has sought to maintain its influence in the regionContinue Reading
Book Review: The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment
Julian A. Zelizer The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9780691160283, 368 pp., $ 21.05) The calendar showed 10th of December 2016 when a group of professors gathered at Princeton University for a 2-day lasting conference to put the presidentialContinue Reading
Book Review: Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
Robert Irwin Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-691-17466-2, 267 pp., $ 29.95) Ibn Khaldun (Wali al-Din ‘Abd al-Raḥman Ibn Khaldun) who lived between 1332 and 1406 has been one of the greatest intellectuals in human history. He clearly deserves this reputation becauseContinue Reading