Modern Business, Modern Warfare and Contemporary Cinema
By Kadri Kaan Renda | 01 March 2010 A war drama set in Iraq, 'The Hurt Locker', by Kathryn Bigelow and a comedy set in the United States, 'Up in...
Midnight Express: Hatred Beats Cinematography
By Alaaddin F. Paksoy | 26 September 2010 "The fault of the movie is simple. It is a movie about Turkey without any Turk in it, neither in the cast nor...
Book Review: Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons under
In 2010, Alexander Betts argued that it no longer makes sense to speak of the “refugee regime”. Instead, there is…a “refugee regime complex”, in which different institutions overlap [and] exist...
Book Review: Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday
Tarik Sabry’s Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday is, first and foremost, a fervent case made for the establishment of Arab cultural studies as a...
Book Review: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media: Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era
In The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media: Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era, Tamar Ashuri discusses the tensions between several forces such as nationalism and globalization; economic...
Book Review: The Politics of Global Regulation
The process of neoliberal globalization underway since the 1980s has had destabilizing impacts on nation-states and their institutions. BY DR. EVREN TOK | 22 OCTOBER 2012 State capacity and national policy-making...
Book Review: Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism modern scholarship has developed an ever-intensifying awareness toward Eurocentric notions that have been long imbedded in the Western narrations of the East, or Orient. BY YASIR YILMAZ | MAY...
Book Review: An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus
When the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) applied for EU membership on behalf of the entire island, the prospect increased the hopes that it would act as a catalyst for Turkey...
Book Reviews: The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East; Islamic Finance and Law: Theory and Practice in a Globalized World
The relative economic decline of the Middle Eastern Moslem world after 1500 requires some explanation. Comparing Istanbul, or Cairo, and London or Paris at the turn of the 16th century would...
Book Review:Thucydides on Strategy Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today
It is a common vice of some IR pundits to willingly imprison themselves in a safe so-called ‘conceptual framework’, thinking that they can then express what they want relevantly. Thus...
Book Review: Handbook of Politics – State and Society in a Global Perspective
The end of the Cold War marked not only the end of a fairly predictable model of politics, but equally importantly it also unsettled the accepted ways in which politics...
Book Review: Statebuilding and Justice Reform: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan
As the author clearly sets out, this book analyses the justice sector reform (JSR) in Afghanistan undertaken since the United States’ military intervention in 2001 by focusing on the rule...
Book Review: New Perspectives on Human Security
Arguably, security is a contested concept. Conventionally, national security that is state-centred and military-oriented has been predominant in the discourse on security. BY JUICHIRO TANABE | APRIL 24, 2012 However,...
Book Review: International Organizations and Civilian Protection: Power, Ideas and Humanitarian Aid
By examining the case studies of Sri Lanka and the Philippines, this book investigates and analyses the major factors that affect the characteristics of the humanitarian intervention and relief activities...
Book Review: Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Since the end of the Cold War in the late 20th century, the number of interstate wars has decreased dramatically, while internal conflicts have claimed the main stage. It might...