Yale University Press, 2014. — 296 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-17884-5 In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliban government, scattering its remnants across the country. But...
Routledge, 2012. — 168 p. International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states. However, groups like Hizballah clearly challenge this framing of global politics through its continued ability to exercise violence in the regional arena. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of state-society...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 208 p. In offering a comprehensive explanation of how militant Islamists have hijacked the Islamic religion, Aboul-Enein provides a realistic description of the militant threat, which is far different and distinct from Islamist political discourse and the wider religion of Islam. A key adviser at the Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating...
United States Institute of Peace, 2021. — 88 p. In December 2019, Congress established the Afghanistan Study Group and tasked it with identifying policy recommendations that “consider the implications of a peace settlement, or the failure to reach a settlement, on U.S. policy, resources, and commitments in Afghanistan.” The Study Group’s report, released on February 3, 2021,...
Routledge, 2019. — 150 p. Since December 2010, a series of uprisings, revolutions, coups and civil wars have shaken up the Middle East and North Africa region. In this chaotic political environment, several countries have been trying to influence this regional transformation. The implications of this transformation are of great importance for the region, its people and global...
Danish Institute for International Studies, 2017. — 151 p. — ISBN: 978-87-7605-867-8 This text features 10 essays that look at the nature of power and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and the level of interventionism the region has experienced since the Arab Uprisings. The essays specifically focus on 1) America’s recent distancing from this part of the...
Routledge, 2016. — 237 p. Small states are often believed to have been resigned to the margins of international politics. However, the recent increase in the number of small states has increased their influence and forced the international community to incorporate some of them into the global governance system. This is particularly evident in the Middle East where small Gulf...
Routledge, 2011. — 314 p. The Persian Gulf, important because of its vast energy resources, emerged into the limelight of geopolitics at the time of the British Labour government’s policy of withdrawal from East of Suez in 1968. Before 1968 it had been recognised that the Gulf lay in the legitimate sphere of influence of Britain, while the United States exerted its influence in...
Marburg: Liepsen, 2016. — 280 S. — ISBN 978-3-9812703-9-6. Die Öffentlichkeit ist entsetzt über den Krieg in Syrien, der von beispielloser Brutalität geprägt ist. Die Lage scheint unkontrollierbar geworden zu sein. Kritische Beobachter wie Jürgen Todenhöfer gehen davon aus, dass die Unfähigkeit der USA, die politische Lage im Nahen und Mittleren Osten richtig einzuschätzen, mit...
Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy Institute for Policy and Strategy, 2006. — 94 p.
This study focuses on a number of issues that are relevant to the makeup of the Syrian regime, its regional strategy and world view, and its behavior in relations with other states.An analysis of the regime today must therefore look forward to potential alternatives which may...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 296 p. Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power , James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the sheer breadth of the twentieth-century...
Institute for the Study of War. — 2015 — 45 p. This reference guide provides a baseline for identifying Syrian opposition groups. The guide aims to permit researchers to track how groups realign as the Russians commence operations. It seeks to inform the development of policies that aim to protect Syrian rebels willing to cooperate with the U.S. in order to defeat ISIS and...
Verso Books, 2016. — 448 p. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In The Age of Jihad Patrick Cockburn, the author of the best-selling The Rise of Islamic State, exposes the dominant conflict of our time—the Sunni–Shia war, and the subsequent origins of...
CSIS, 2012. — 170 p. The new survey provides a comprehensive set of charts and tables covering progress in the war to date, and the major issues that must now be addressed. It concludes that major changes are needed in the way the US and its allies analyze Afghanistan’s economy, governance, and military progress and that far more realistic and transparent plans are needed for...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 264 p. — ISBN 978 1 108 47608 9 The origins of this book date back to the great revolts of 2011 when Syrians from all backgrounds confronted their deepest fears and peacefully demonstrated their dignity in the face of unprecedented adversity. The project took shape when hope was met with arms, betrayal, and chaos. The government’s militarized...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or Arab-Israeli conflict, is perhaps one of the more sensitive issues that is discussed. From the historic British dominance in the Middle East, and the more recent US influence and control over the region, the Anglo-American goal is simply to be able to dominate the Middle East due to the vast oil reserves and the West's economic dependence upon...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008. — 337 p. From the War on Terror to the Fiasco in Iraq. Martyrdom Operations among Shiites and Sunnis. The Third Phase of Jihad. Missteps of Multiculturalism. The Propaganda Battle in Europe. The Challenge of Civilization. notes.
Springer, 2022. — 170 p. This book outlines the state of play in maritime security in the Gulf and provides a historical perspective to current issues while also surveying different mechanisms for Gulf maritime security, both at the collective and individual state levels. The book addresses a number of questions related to maritime security in the Gulf States, such as what are...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 408 p. What role does political Islam play in the genealogy of protests as an instrument to resist neo-liberalism and authoritarian rule? How can we account for the internal conflicts among Islamist players after the 2011/2012 Arab uprisings? How can we assess the performance of Islamist parties in power? What geopolitical reconfigurations...
Routledge, 2022. — 288 p. This book explores the causes and implications of the Libyan crisis since the anti-Gaddafi uprisings of 2011 from the perspective of the EU and NATO. It asks the question of why those organizations failed to stabilize the country despite the serious challenges posed by the protracted crisis to European and transatlantic stakes in the region. This book...
Routledge, 2020. — 252 p. Dramatic changes in the global security environment have necessitated a fundamental reassessment of U.S. interests and policy worldwide. This book focuses on the underlying forces at work in the Middle East, the challenges the United States will face in the region in the coming decade, and how they will influence U.S. interests and future strategy. The...
Routledge, 2019. — 391 p. Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the...
Routledge, 2019. — 391 p. Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the...
Routledge, 2019. — 391 p. Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the...
Routledge, 2019. — 391 p. Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the...
Routledge, 2019. — 391 p. Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 268 p. This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the long-term, patterns of othering in protracted conflicts, and how this relates with enduring violence. Taking Israel and Palestine as a case study, the book traces different...
Tyndale House Publishers, 2021. — 400 p. Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. At the same time, Russia, Iran, and Turkey are forming a highly dangerous alliance that could threaten the Western powers. Meanwhile, the U.S. is drawing down its...
Routledge, 2009. — 302 p. Political violence and instability in the Middle East is arguably the world's most important political issue. The region is certainly the globe's leading area for turmoil, war, and violence; and its conflicts have continuously involved Western countries both directly and indirectly.This book surveys the main conflicts and insurgencies in recent Middle...
Bilgesam Publications. Report No: 47, İstanbul, 2012, 46 p.
In the Possible Effects of the Iranian Nuclear Crisis on Turkey report, three main conjectural scenarios concerning the future of a possible Iranian crisis’ influence on Turkey have been entertained. Within the scope of this report, a possible military action against Iran, Iran ‘closing-down’ the Straits of Hormuz and...
Routledge, 2019. — 280 p. This book demonstrates that the strategic importance of the Golan Heights lies in three spheres: defense, deterrence, and bargaining asset. It examines security arrangements that are a crucial element for Israel's security and for the prevention of war with Syria during the transition period.
Routledge, 2005. — 260 p. In the nearly 25 years since the ascent of an Islamic regime, Iran has become one of the most prominent supporters of terror worldwide. Today Iran actively employs terror to achieve its international objectives. The Axis of Evil outlines the operations and goals of Shiite and Iranian terror. As Shaul Shay shows, Iran has done its utmost to conceal its...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 336 p. Examines how regional turbulence following the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Arab uprisings impacted domestic politics and regional policies of key states in the Middle East: Contains detailed case studies based on original research and analysis by leading Middle East scholars Engages with the Middle East domestic politics and Middle East...
Springer Nature, 2023. — 192 p. Much has been written on security in Africa—its democratic deficit, poor civil-military relations, and myriad conflicts—but these are often treated in isolation from one another. This book takes a different approach, as it links all of these issues to the dynamics of the Anthropocene. Penned by African scholars on the continent and in the...
Casemate, 2024. — 432 p. In Strange Company: An American Soldier with Multinational Forces in the Middle East and Iraq by Colonel Roland J. Tiso Jr., US Army (Retired) is a must –read book for anyone interested in military affairs and operations. Colonel Tiso’s experience with operational planning and combat service with multinational forces in Iraq provides an exceptional...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 188 р. The peacekeeper—impartial, disciplined, helpful and restrained in their lethal capacity—is a powerful trope. This book examines the mythology of international peacekeeping and focuses on Canada as a case study of a "peacekeeper par excellence" (Jockel, 1994) and the ways the peacekeeping myth both challenged and condoned combat...
The JSOU Press, 2020. — 154 p. — ISBN 978-1-941715-49-9 Understanding how and why Iran uses proxy forces throughout the Middle East is vitally important for policymakers, military strategists, and operators. The lessons in this volume are not isolated to U.S. approaches toward Iranian use of proxies but have broader implications in great power competition. Russia and China have...
Доклад № 85 / 2022 / Под ред. Е. О. Карпинской, С. М. Гавриловой. — М.: НП РСМД, 2022. — 46 с. — ISBN 978-5-6048842-2-5. Захват талибами («Движение Талибан» — организация, деятельность которой запрещена в России) власти в Афганистане в августе 2021 г. и конфликт между Россией и Украиной повлияли на ключевые региональные тенденции на Ближнем Востоке. В докладе дается...
М.: Московская редакция издательства «Учитель», 2015. — 384 с. — ISBN 978-5-7057-4624-8. Ближний Восток – это регион, который много десятилетий находится в центре внимания, поскольку он постоянно преподносит такие «сюрпризы» и повороты, которые ощутимо отражаются на всем мире. Это неудивительно, ибо здесь тесно сплелись геополитические интересы мировых и региональных держав;...
Коллектив авторов. — Н. Новгород: Институт стратегических исследований Нижегородского государственного университета им. Н. И. Лобачевского, 2008. Во втором томе монографии систематизированы документы,период 1897 г.по Заявление относительно ситуации в Секторе ГАЗА 18 января 2008 г., характеризующие процесс формирования ближневосточной политики великих держав в новое и новейшее...
2-ге вид. — Київ : Видавництво Марка Мельника (ФОП Мельник М. Ю.), 2022. — 312 c. — ISBN 978-617-7838-44-8. Про феномен «Ісламської держави» та битву за півтора мільйонне місто Мосул, що стала найграндіознішою військовою операцією сучасності і сформувала концепцію ведення війн у світі на десятиліття вперед, розповідає книга директора Міжнародного центру дослідження проблем безпеки.
Алматы: КИСИ, 2011. — 236 с. — ISBN 978–601–7242–48-0. Настоящее издание посвящено бурным событиям, охватившим Арабский Восток в 2011 г. Тематически данная книга является продолжением работы «Геополитические процессы в исламском мире (в контексте председательства РК в ОИК)», увидевшей свет в начале 2011 года. Значительное внимание уделяется ситуации в арабском мире и в...
М.: Издатель Воробьев А.В., 2015. — 264 с. — ISBN 978–5–93883–269–5. Затерявшийся в горах Центральной Азии, Афганистан является ключевым звеном этого непростого региона. До 1979 г. об Афганистане абсолютное большинство советских людей знало разве что из школьного курса географии, следовательно — почти ничего. Лишь после нашего вторжения в эту страну ею начали более или менее...
М.: Издатель Воробьев А.В., 2015. — 368 с. — ISBN 978–5–93883–273–2. Зона Персидского залива переживает головокружительно быстрые и болезненные перемены. Конфликтный потенциал в этом непростом регионе достаточно высок, в него вовлечены главные мировые державы и местные родоплеменные объединения, разведывательные службы и таинственные религиозные общины. Усилиями Вашингтона,...
М.: Издатель Воробьев А.В., 2015. — 276 с. — ISBN 978–5–93883–271–8. Американская агрессия против Ирака, как уже сегодня выяснилось, не была оправдана теми аргументами, которые выдвигал Вашингтон для оправдания своей силовой акции в обход Международного права и Устава ООН. Режим Хуссейна, который гарантировал стране стабильность, сменился «демократией», принесшей с собой хаос и...
М.: Мысль, 1978. — 378 с. В книге члена-корреспондента АН СССР Примакова Е.М. дается анализ причин, породивших ближневосточный конфликт — один из самых опасных международных конфликтов современности. На широком историческом материале прослеживается конфронтация между Израилем, проводящим экспансионистскую политику, и соседними арабскими государствами, а также палестинским...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2020. — 199 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0583-3. В книге изучается взаимосвязь между ИГИЛ и притоком десятков тысяч иностранных боевиков-террористов в Сирию и Ирак в контексте роли и места ИГИЛ в более широком движении «глобального джихада». Дана оценка основных количественных и качественных параметров феномена иностранных боевиков-террористов в Сирии и Ираке,...
Новосибирск: ЦРНС, 2015. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-00068-490-0. Сирийский конфликт является, пожалуй, самой страшной кровавой трагедией современности, которая произошла в ходе «Арабской весны», начавшейся весной 2011 года. При этом все беспорядки и столкновения в ближневосточном регионе западные страны политкорректно окрестили «правом народов» на восстание и лучшую жизнь....
М.: Центр стратегической конъюнктуры, 2013. — 280 с. — ISBN 978–5–906233–70–7. Настоящая монография комплексно освещает общую кризисную политическую и социальную ситуацию на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке, возникшую в первые десятилетия XXI века. Оценивая внутренние внутриобщественные противоречия в регионе, автор вместе с тем заостряет внимание читателей на крупномасштабной...
М.: Центр стратегической конъюнктуры, 2013. — 280 с. — ISBN 978–5–906233–70–7. Настоящая монография комплексно освещает общую кризисную политическую и социальную ситуацию на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке, возникшую в первые десятилетия XXI века. Оценивая внутренние внутриобщественные противоречия в регионе, автор вместе с тем заостряет внимание читателей на крупномасштабной...
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