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Monday, 19 March 2018 12:16

Interview with Dmitri Trenin, author of What is Russia Up To in the Middle East?

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Follow this link for our book review of Dmitri Trenin, What is Russia Up To in the Middle East? (Polity Press, 2018).

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Monday, 19 March 2018 11:54

Dmitri Trenin, What is Russia Up To in the Middle East?, Polity Press, 2018

Dmitri Trenin, What is Russia Up To in the Middle East?, Polity Press, 2018

Dmitri Trenin’s book is a welcome contribution to a thin body of print on Russian politics in the MENA region. Rather than enunciating in detail Putin’s regional policies -by definition an impossible task in 140 small pages- Trenin offers a succinct summation of these policies, their short-term impact and their perceptions by the region’s states. Well-versed in Russia’s geopolitical Weltanschauung, Trenin is aware of the country’s perennial interests in the greater Middle East. Far from a newcomer to the region, Russia has after all had a ‘rich history of involvement’. Yet continuities are often punctured by ruptures: the demise of the Soviet Union and the rejection of its mediating initiatives in the First Gulf War meant that the Middle East ‘almost vanished’ from Russian foreign policy. Moscow’s restoration of ties with Israel in the fall of 1991 and its co-chairing of the Arab-Israeli peace conference in Madrid the same year looked more like spasmodic attempts at survival of a flittering giant.

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Sunday, 01 October 2017 16:03

Interview with Alison Pargeter, author of Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring

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Follow this link for our book review of Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring (Saqi Books, 2016).

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Sunday, 01 October 2017 14:41

Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi Books, 2016

Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi Books, 2016

A lot of ink has been spilt on the role of political Islam in post-Arab Spring politics. In the beginning, there was an assumption of an almost teleological nature whereby the democratic renaissance of the region would at a minimum bring the forces of political Islam to the fore. There was even the potential for it to be rendered the single most important socio-political actor in part of the region. While the first premise has certainly proved true, Alison Pargeter’s book is a detailed, eloquent attempt at explaining the second: political Islam’s inability to ensconce itself in power, once in its antechamber.

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Tuesday, 16 May 2017 11:51

Public talk by Mr. Ali Fayyad on "The geopolitical developments and religion in the Middle East"

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The audio recording of the Public talk by Mr. Ali Fayyad on "The geopolitical developments and religion in the Middle East" (Athens, April 5, 2017)(Arabic-Greek)

The transcript of the speech. (Greek)

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Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:39

Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016

Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016

‘The Battle for Syria’ is an ambitious endeavor penned by a scholar well-versed in the region’s sociopolitical intricacies. An original and timely contribution, it situates the Syrian conflict within a rapidly-changing Middle East. Indeed, the subtitle rather serves as an involuntary warning and an index of its remit, focusing mainly on the behavior of external actors. Those seeking an immersion into Syria’s domestic political dynamics would be well-advised to look elsewhere. Phillips takes the approach of the international relations’ scholar, which at times makes the book feel informationally overloaded. The book’s leitmotif is that the Syrian theatre has been a reflection of the power projection of 6 main players, namely the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar and Turkey). It is the external behavior of those countries that has invariably had a heavy impact on the ravaged country’s state of affairs.

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Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:03

Patrick Cockburn, The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East, London: Verso Books

Patrick Cockburn, The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East, London: Verso Books

The broader Middle Eastern and Northern Africa region has entered an extended period of turmoil where states are collapsing and regimes are being overthrown. While the roots of these conflicts are long-established, eruptions since 2001 are recurring with a ferocity implying that none will come together again in a capacity of state unity. Patrick Cockburn's indefatigable coverage provides a crucial tour d'horizon of the civil wars and insurgencies that have been shattering the societies' central core while demonstrating the variety of reasons as to why these conflicts are ongoing and foremost, as to why religion in the Middle East is now the glue that holds societies together.

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Wednesday, 01 June 2016 03:00

Notions of the Arab revolts | Middle East Bulletin 30

Notions of the Arab revolts | Middle East Bulletin 30
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Friday, 01 March 2013 02:00

Geopolitics of Islam and Democracy | Middle East Bulletin 24

Geopolitics of Islam and Democracy | Middle East Bulletin 24
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Friday, 01 June 2012 03:00

The Arab Spring: Crossroads | Middle East Bulletin 23

The Arab Spring: Crossroads | Middle East Bulletin 23
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