Sercan Canbolat, University of Connecticut, sercan.canbolat@uconn.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. In January 2009, then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of a panel at
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
Domestic Politics in Turkey’s Foreign Policy/Turkey’s Foreign Policy, Inside Out
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
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