Michael Freedman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mrfreed@mit.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Jewish religious political parties have historically played an important role in Israeli politics. Religious
Introduction: The State of Israeli Democracy
Even before the Covid-19 crisis, Israel had experienced unprecedented levels of political instability in the last two years. Most notably, Israel held an unprecedented three national elections between April 2019 and March 2020. At the same time, for all of
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Ferhat Zabun, the Graduate Center, CUNY and Istanbul University, http://cuny.is/ofzabun This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. On 27 February 2020, at least 34 Turkish soldiers were killed
Understanding Turkey’s Increasingly Militaristic Foreign Policy
Sinem Adar, Associate, Center for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, sinem.adar@swp.berlin.org This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Since 2016, Turkish foreign
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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