Semra Akay, PhD* * Lecturer, Gaziantep University, Turkey, semraakay@gantep.edu.tr ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates how the interactions of diverse people with Taksim, Gezi Park, and one another, as well as with material practices and events constructed the Gezi protests’ spaces and times. While the Gezi protests began as a reaction against the uprooting of trees in…
Eric D. Weitz A World Divided. The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-691-14544-0, 544 pp., £ 27) There is nothing new under the sun. A World Divided, the last book by Eric D. Weitz, is a collection of histories and issues stemming…
Erik Voeten Ideology and International Institutions (Princeton: Princeton Press University, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-691-20731-5, 239 PP., £78.00) In a post-ideological time emanated by the contested ‘end of history’ after the period of the Cold War, Erik Voeten has the merit of revitalising a debate that experts and scholars often take for granted or overlook. As the…
Seth Anziska Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9780691177397, 435 pp., $35.00) The Camp David Accords, signed in 1978 between Egypt and Israel culminating in the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979, have been praised by politicians and scholars alike as a significant turning point in…
Elizabeth R. Nugent After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-691-20305-8, 256 pp., $29.95) Since the waves of protests of 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa which became known as “Arab Spring”, many commentators and scholars have discussed the errors and shortcomings that accounted for…
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 East Between 2002-2019 By Billy Agwanda…
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 the Islamic State, there is a…
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 two decades has been reinforced by…
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 interaction of these variables using various…