The Death of Osama Bin Laden: Islamophobia Goes to America
It was a bullet that killed a terrorist and revived a presidency. On the morning of May the second 2011, the world woke up to the breaking news of Osama...
Interview with Prof. Gerd Nonneman
It seems that Bahrain and Libya is occupying a central place on the discussion on Arab insurgency and its causes and possible effect on the Middle East. What do you...
Reintegrating the Taliban after the Death of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda leader, was killed by US forces in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, Pakistan on 2nd May 2011. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks coordinated by al-Qaeda,...
What to Expect from Turkey’s New Secular Leadership
Turkey's opposition Republican People‟s Party (CHP) has been undergoing an important and profound transformation since May 2010, which began with the resignation of Deniz Baykal, the party‟s chairman for more...
The Revolt in North Africa in Global Perspective: How Neoliberal Policies Triggered Widespread Poverty and Unemployment, and Perhaps an Arab “Caracazo‟
In the aftermath, life turned upside down in Tunisia and the fire that Bouaziz lit burned until it engulfed the entire country from town to town. He died an agonising...
Asymmetric Federalism and Decentralization May Be Best Solutions for Governance in Our 21st Century World
A survey of the geopolitics of our 21st century world demonstrates many cracks in the foundations of current government and policy. The late 20th century was all about globalization and...
When Money Speaks, Justice is Silent
In late January this year, I was suffocated by the fact that China and Hong Kong were flooded by the news and images of the SinoAmerican meeting. I was...
BANGKOK: “A Wonderful City for Tourists, not for Bangkokians!”
A very interesting city, Bangkok, which was the capital city of Thailand, has been examined in this volume. Thailand is located at the heart of Southeast Asia. The country has...
England’s Disappearing Regions
Listing the members of the British royal family and aristocracy is a good way to discover England’s regions. The likes of Wessex, Cornwall and York, Kent, Gloucester and Norfolk all...
The EU’s Quest in South Caucasus: Energy Security and Pro-Active Engagement
The EU is implementing all the possible projects in order to lessen Russian gas dominance in the European market and in this regard one of those big projects is the...
Interview With Khaled Elshami: “Post Mubarak Egypt: Historic Changes and Challenges”
For as long as Mubarak was in power many in Egypt were secretly angered by his corrupt rule but remained silent out of the fear that his dictatorship had instilled...
The Muslim Brotherhood: A Challenge or Opportunity for New Egypt?
During the January Revolution in Egypt many Middle Eastern experts had two major questions in their mind. The first question was that what Mubarak’s decision would be against the demonstrations....
Turkey’s Role in the New Middle East
On 22 February 2011, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the long standing dictator of Libya appeared on TV to declare that he was going nowhere, did not care what the people of...
Unrest in the Middle East, the Turkish response and the Turkish model
The recent uprising in several Middle Eastern countries has caught the West by surprise and has left it unsure about which course of action to take. For too long, the...
People, Power and Protest the Egyptian Revolution and the Arab World
People are making an alternative history while revolution is sweeping across the Arab world. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011, the unfolding pre-democracy protests and uprisings...