Religion and Politics in Israel
Recently, Israel has experienced several inner conflicts. But this time, Palestinians have nothing to do with them. It is a series of conflicts and tensions between the two faces of the Israeli...
View ArticleTurkey’s Failed Bureaucratic Coup
ANKARA – Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan intensified his government’s response to the corruption investigations that have been roiling the country since December, restructuring...
View ArticleTunisia Offers a Beacon of Hope
Anyone looking at North Africa and the Middle East today would be forgiven for thinking that the Arab Spring has rapidly turned into a bitter winter. The revolutionary road embarked upon by a number of...
View ArticleBack to the Future in Turkish Politics?
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 30 October 2014. As Turkey celebrates its 91st anniversary as an independent state since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk forged a modern republic from...
View ArticleThe Rise of Diyanet: the Politicization of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious...
This article was originally published in the Turkey Analyst, a publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Center on 9 October, 2015. BACKGROUND: Whether in Ottoman...
View ArticleReligious Politics and the Rise of Illiberal Religion
This article was originally published by E-International Relations on 1 November, 2015. It has been argued that the twenty-first century will be ‘God’s Century’.[i] By this it is meant that...
View ArticleThe Struggle Over Bangladesh’s Future
This interview was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on 25 July 2016. On July 1, militants attacked a restaurant in one of the Bangladeshi capital’s affluent neighborhoods,...
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