Book reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-223
Author(s):  
Kurdish Studies
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Cambridge University

Twana Faris Bawa, The Privatisation of Security in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. University of Buckingham Press, 2014, 305 pp., (ISBN 978-1-908684-51-6).Marianna Charountaki, The Kurds and US Foreign Policy: International Relations in the Middle East since 1945, Routledge, London and New York, 2011, 320 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415-58753-2).Ramazan Aras, The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey. Political Violence, Fear and Pain, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2014. xii + 227 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415-82418-7).Senem Aslan, Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco: Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 250 pp., (ISBN: 1107054605).Michael M. Gunter, The Kurds: A Modern History. Princeton, New Jersey: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2015, 236 pp., (ISBN: 1558766154).Djene Rhys Bajalan and Sara Zandi Karimi (eds.), Studies in Kurdish History: Empire, Ethnicity and Identity, London: Routledge, 2015, 179 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-138-88468-7). 

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-246
Author(s):  
Kariane Westrheim ◽  
Michael Gunter ◽  
Yener Koc ◽  
Yavuz Aykan ◽  
Diane E. King ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Kurdish Conflict

Adem Uzun, “Living Freedom”: The Evolution of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey and the Efforts to Resolve it. Berghof Transitions Series No. 11. Berlin: Berghof Foundation, 2014. 48 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-941514-16-4).Ebru Sönmez, Idris-i Bidlisi: Ottoman Kurdistan and Islamic Legitimacy, Libra Kitap, Istanbul, 2012, 190 pp., (ISBN: 978-605-4326-56-3). Sabri Ateş, The Ottoman–Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843-1914, New York; Cambridge University Press, 2013. 366., (ISBN: 978-1107033658).  Choman Hardi, Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington Vermont: Ashgate, 2011, xii + 217 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-7546-7715-4).Harriet Allsopp, The Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity in the Middle East, London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2014, 299 pp., (ISBN: 978-1780765631).Khanna Omarkhali (ed.), Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream [Studies in Oriental Religions, Volume 68], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014, xxxviii + 423 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-447-10125-7).Anna Grabole-Çeliker, Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender and Ethnic Identity, London: I.B. Taurus, 2013, 299 pp., (ISBN: 978-1780760926).  

Understanding the limits of power: America's Middle East experience

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 631-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAXIMILIAN TERHALLE
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
American Power ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Main Thread

AbstractThe main thread of this review article is to identify the reasons of how to account for the trajectory of American power in the region. Leaving behind the vast amount of highly politicised and hastily compiled volumes of recent years (notwithstanding valuable exceptions), the monographs composed by Lawrence Freedman, Trita Parsi and Oliver Roy attempt to subtly disentangle the intricacies of US involvement in the region from highly distinct perspectives. One caveat for International Relations theorists is that none of the aforementioned authors intends to provide theoretical frameworks for his examination. However, since IR theory has damagingly neglected history in the last decades, the works under review here, at least in part, compensate for this disciplinary and intellectual failure.In conclusion, Freedman's in-depth approach as a diplomatic historian, with its underlying reference to the various traditions in US foreign policy thinking, is most illuminating, while Parsi's contestable account focuses too narrowly on the Iran-Israel relationship. Roy's explications fail to show how and why the ‘ideological’ element in US foreign policy came to carry exceedingly more weight after 2001 than it did in the 1990s.

scholarly journals Contemporary concepts of US foreign policy: opportunities and reality

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The article analyzes the current concepts of US foreign policy, the direction of US foreign policy, and examines the economic background of US foreign policy. In particular, the fundamental indicators of US economic development have been studied, which allow the state to be a regional and world leader and pursue a hegemony strategy. The subject of research in the article is to determine the general and specific aspects of US foreign policy at the present stage. The goal is to determine the impact of US policy on the geopolitical transformation of the world. Objectives: the study of modern concepts of US foreign policy in the context of globalization and regionalization of the world. The study used the following general scientific methods: using the system analysis, the evolution of the US foreign policy in the globalization languages of the world was considered; In order to generalize the activities of various administrations and governments, compare their positions on shaping the country's foreign policy, a comparative historical method was used. relationship. The following results were obtained: on the basis of the analysis of the current US policy, the political strategies of the United States in Europe and the Middle East were discovered and analyzed in detail. Conclusions: The United States remains the key actor in international relations at the present stage, and so far retains its influence on the processes in the world. US foreign policy is aimed at stabilizing international relations in such key regions as the Middle East and the EU. A comprehensive analysis of the presidents and their administrations suggests the continuity of US foreign policy in the Middle East. With the arrival of D. Trump, the foreign policy of American Republicans is saturated with power and cruelty.

Memories of the State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq, by Eric Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 385 pages, notes, bibliography, index and illustrations. US$24.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-520-23546-0 - Inventing Iraq, The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied, by Toby Dodge. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 260 pgaes, notes, bibliography and index. US$24.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-231-13166-6 - Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship, by Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. 390 pages, notes, bibliography, tables and index. US$18.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-86064-622-0 - Republic of Fear: The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq, by Samir Al-Khalil(KANAN MAKIYA). New York: Pantheon, 1990. 310 pages, notes, tables and index. US$17.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-679-73502-X - The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq, Faleh A. Jabar. London: Saqi Press, 2003. 391 pages, notes, bibliography, tables and index. US$24.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-86356-395-3 - Tribes and Power: Nationalism and Ethnicity in The Middle East, edited by Faleh Abdul-Jabar and Hosham Dawod. London: Saqi Press, 2003. 309 pages, notes and tables. US$55.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-86356-804-1 - The Modern History of Iraq, by Phebe Marr. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. 392 pages, notes, bibliography, tables and index. US$40.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-8133-3615-5 - The Shi’is of Iraq, by Yitzhak Nakash. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. 312 pages, notes, bibliography and index. US$65.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-691-03431-1 - A History of Iraq, by Charles Tripp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 324 pages, notes, bibliography, illustrations and index. US$23.99 (Paper) ISBN 0-521-52900-X

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Rizk Khoury
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-232
Author(s):  
Kurdish Studies
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Turkish Society

Thomas Schmidinger, Krieg und Revolution in Syrisch-Kurdistan: Analysen und Stimmen aus Rojava, Wien: Mandelbaum, 2014, 262 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-85476-636-0).Bahar Baser, Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts: A Comparative Perspective. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, 302 pp., (ISBN-10: 1472425626). Bryan R. Gibson, Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War, New York: Palgrave, 2015, 284 pp., (ISBN: 978-1137487117). Alex Danilovich, Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together, Farnham, Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014, 181 pp., (ISBN: 9781409451112).Sherko Kirmanj, Identity and Nation in Iraq, Boulder Colorado and London: Lynne Rienner, 2013, xviii + 321 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-58826-885-3).Cenk Saraçoğlu, Kurds of Modern Turkey: Migration, Neoliberalism and Exclusion in Turkish Society, London : IB Tauris, 2011, 228 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-84885-468-0).Tatort Kurdistan. Demokratische Autonomie in Nordkurdistan, Rätbewegung, Geschlechterbefreiung und Ökologie in der Praxis. Hamburg: Tatort Kurdistan/Informationsstelle Kurdistan, 2012, 183 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-941012-60-8).Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboğa and Michael Knapp, Revolution in Rojava, Frauenbewegung und Kommunalismus zwischen Krieg und Embargo, Hamburg: VSA Verlag, 2015, 352 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-89965-665-7). 

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