This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Introduction Turkey’s foreign policy over the past several years has been characterized as increasingly unilateral, aggressive, and risk-tolerant, from the purchase of a NATO-incompatible missile defense system
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This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of the full issue here. OPEN CALLS 2020 MENA Politics Section Award Nominations APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best Book: Awarded for the best book
What Counting Words Can Teach Us About Middle East Politics
Richard A. Nielsen, MIT This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. I stared at the word “God”—allah in Arabic—at the top of the list on my computer screen.
Ideological Scaling in a Post Islamist Age
Nate Grubman, Yale University This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. In recent years, a growing body of scholarship has focused on the interaction of cultural identity
Quantitative Text Analysis of Arabic News Media
Ala’ Alrababa’h, Stanford University This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. Middle East scholars have long relied on Arabic news media to understand the priorities of Arab