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Near East University · Political Science

The Arab monarchies remain relatively stable, largely unaffected by the ‘Arab Spring’ upheavals. In particular, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has emerged relatively unscathed from the region's uprisings. The Jordanian case helps underscore the extent to which the polarization between Palestinian-Jordanians and native Jordanians continues to domin...

In order to capture how young people in northern Cyprus see the Cyprus Question, we asked more than 300 students to ‘draw Cyprus’ and surveyed their political attitudes, as well as their identities and preferences for the future of the island. The results show that the Turkish Cypriot students, in comparison with the students from Turkey and from t...

Utilizing the theory of securitization and security sectors of the Copenhagen School, this article analyses the re-securitization process of Turkish foreign policy on Cyprus after the collapse of the peace talks at the Crans Montana Conference in 2017. The failure of the negotiation process to reach a solution based on the UN Parameters and the sub...

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutes a remarkable case of regime stability in the Middle East and North Africa region. The 2011 Arab Uprisings that swept through most of the countries in the Arab Middle East did not engulf the Kingdom of Jordan, as foreseen. At the height of the protests, Jordan employed a decades-old regime-survival strateg...

The majority of studies that examine political liberalization and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region concentrate on internal factors such as Islamic or patriarchal culture, oil rents, socioeconomic structures and patrimonialism. This article argues instead that external factors under the cloak of aid represent one of...

Relations between Turkey and the Kingdom of Jordan have been among the most stable in the Middle East. This article argues that, nevertheless, the relationship gained momentum following the Arab uprisings, which forced both countries to tackle mounting security concerns. One major challenge has been the influx of a huge number of Syrian refugees ac...

One of the main questions that has resurfaced in the post-2011 Arab Uprisings era has been to what extent these public protests and the popular calls for political opening would result in democratization in the MENA region. Despite the conventional arguments that explain the persistence of authoritarian regimes as a derivate of cultural authenticit...

This chapter aims to highlight the new patterns of behaviour that have accompanied the Republic of Cyprus’ (RoC) foreign policy, which in some circumstances extend far beyond the limits of the Cyprus Problem. It looks at the perceptions and interpretations of Turkish Cypriots residing on the northern part of the island towards the proactive foreign...

Die bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen der Türkei und dem Haschemitischen Königreich Jor-danien sind ein Beispiel von bemerkenswerter Stabilität in einem sonst so volatilen Raum. Seit der Unabhängigkeit Jordaniens verbindet die beiden Länder eine enge Freundschaft, sowohl auf politischer wie auch auf wirtschaftlicher Ebene, es gibt Freihandelsabkomme...

North Cyprus, which has experienced perennial conflict since 1963, has recently been witness to heated debates revolving around the role of Islam in making and re-configuring Turkish Cypriots’ social and political landscape. The reason behind such debates derives from the historical narrative established on a Kemalist-secular understanding of relig...

2019 marked the quarter-century anniversary of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli peace-making. Representing key partners and neighbouring countries in the Middle East, Jordan and Israel have established longstanding diplomatic, political and economic ties since then. The pro-Western stance of both countries, and their common interest in maintaining region...

The Middle East has been home to protracted conflicts. The foremost longterm problem of the region is, indisputably, the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has been marked by five wars since the end of World War II. Despite a shared past and deep cultural-historical …

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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been caught lately between domestic and regional upheavals that have alarmed King Abdullah II. Although the 2011 Arab uprisings did not engulf Jordan as they did Tunisia and Egypt, economic recession and increased unemployment remain major challenges facing the monarchy. Besides being threatened by public protest...

ABSTRACT The public protests that engulfed most Arab regimes in 2011 have since opened a Pandora’s Box of democratization processes in the MENA region. One of the upshots of the popular uprisings has been the empowerment of the key opposition group in the region, i.e. mainly Islamist actors. Despite the electoral victories of Islamist political par...

Although the 2011 Arab uprisings did not engulf Jordan as they did Tunisia and Egypt, economic recession and increased unemployment remain major challenges facing the monarchy. Besides being threatened by public protests and a decline in subsidies from the Gulf sheikdoms — Saudi Arabia, in particular — that have helped keep Jordan stable for severa...

This book provides detailed coverage of all the key conflict-related developments since the Arab Spring, a seminal event that began in December 2010 and continues to have major influence on events in the Middle East, North Africa, and ...

Diaspora policy has long been a contested area in a country’s foreign policy. Turkey has many expatriate communities abroad, as well as numerous ethnic connections to states like Azerbaijan and the Turkic republics of Central Asia. Since its establishment in 1923, the Republic of Turkey has pursued a diaspora policy towards Turkey-related communiti...

Some scholars argue that Turkish foreign policy has undergone a structural change since 2002. This shift in Turkey’s identity is primarily linked to the ascendancy of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) and its proactive foreign policy towards Turkey’s eastern neighbourhood. The change in Turkey’s identity and forei...

ZET One of the main questions that have revealed after the 2011 Arab Spring or Uprisings has revolved around whether they will lead to democratic transition or not. It has become ostensible that one of the initial outcomes of the public protests have been the sporadic overthrown of authoritarian regimes in several Arab countries. In this sense, thi...

Ortadoğu, şüphesiz dünya üzerindeki en özel yerlerdendir. Tarihin en önemli medeniyetlerine ev sahipliği yapan bu bölge, tarihi özelliklerinin yanında siyasi ve jeopolitik pek çok öneme sahiptir. Önemi tartışılmaz olsa da Ortadoğu’yu ve bu bölge devletlerinin hareketlenmelerini anlamlandırmak her zaman çok zor olmuştur. Bu zorluğu meydana getiren...

The 2011 Arab uprisings which has engulfed most of the Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa had produced dramatic results for the Syrian people. After first erupting in Tunisia, the public uprisings spread to Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Bahrain and Yemen as well as to the town of Deraa– which is located in the southern part of Syria. Eight...

In her recent book published after the election of Donald Trump as the US President in 2016, Cynthia Enloe argues that the patriarchy, similar to our smart phones, has updated itself as a reaction against the achievements of the second and third wave feminisms. The updated patriarchy has this time renewed itself through the beliefs and values about...

With the onset of the Arab uprisings at the end of 2010 and the emergence of popular demonstrations that raised questions of legitimacy across the Arab states, the literature on democratization in Middle East and North African studies has taken on new dimensions recently. One of the crucial developments of the Arab Spring has been the overthrow of...

In order to capture how young people in northern Cyprus see the Cyprus Question, we asked more than 300 students to ‘draw Cyprus’ and surveyed their political attitudes, as well as their identities and preferences for the future of the island. The results show that the Turkish Cypriot students, in comparison with the students from Turkey and from t...

One of the main debates that has surfaced in the post-Arab Uprisings era has centered on whether or not the demonstrations will lead to regime change or increased authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book focuses on the Mediterranean/MENA migration crisis and explores the human security implications for migrants and refugees in this troubled region. Since the Arab uprisings of 2010/2011, the Middle East and North Africa region has experienced major political transformations and called into question the legitimacy of states in the region.

The Arab Spring engulfed most of the Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) starting in 2011. After first erupting in Tunisia, the social uprisings spread to most of the Arab countries. Although the uprisings particularly resonated in the region’s republics including Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria, they have so far yet to engul...

Representing one of the most stable regimes in the Middle East, Jordan has been undergoing a process of political liberalization since 1989. Due to the so-called East Bank-West Bank cleavage that followed by the influx of Palestinian migrants to Jordan, the country has also come to epitomize a divided society. Within this context, this paper aims t...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, the key Islamist movement in the country, has had a long-standing symbiotic relationship with the monarchy and, until recently, was not considered a threat to the survival of the Hashemite Kingdom.1 But the rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the growth of militant Islamist groups such as the Islam...

The communal identities rooted in the millet system are still salient in post-Ottoman lands. Cyprus and Lebanon offer two cases where ethnic and sectarian identities are more prominent than national identities. In this respect both countries represent highly divided societies in post-Ottoman territories. This article discusses the failure of power-...

The communal identities rooted in the millet system are still salient in post-Ottoman lands. Cyprus and Lebanon offer two cases where ethnic and sectarian identities are more prominent than national identities. In this respect both countries represent highly divided societies in post-Ottoman territories. This article discusses the failure of power-...

Scholars have recently debated whether non-recognition is a blessing or a curse for democracy. Some suggest that lack of recognition forces political elites to democratize and acquire internal legitimacy to compensate for the lack of external legitimacy. Others suggest that democratization is used as a strategy by which to acquire international rec...

After the Arab uprisings, it has become apparent that Islamists are an integral component of the huge and complex structure in the Middle East, and the recent growth of Islamist activism in the region needs to be addressed. To that end, this article will argue that Islamists and the Ikhwan in the Arab Middle East do not form a monolithic entity and...

Abstract: This book investigates an important phenomenon in the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, namely the role that the military plays in the governments of several states of the region. Can military forces be defined as guardians of a regime in a democratic state? How is it possible to limit the power of armies to solely military pre...

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is mostly characterized as a binational society in the Arab world due to the influx of a huge Palestinian community in the aftermath of the 1948–1949 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars. Jordan epitomizes a case that can often be found in the region where pan-Arabist, Palestinian, and tribal identities interact and interplay...

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is regarded as a semi-rentier state where the enormous amount of its national income derives from worker remittances and external donations. Migration to, from, and across Jordan, since the Palestinian exodus of 1948, has played a key role in shaping the country's politics of identity as well as economic relations. I...

Özet Ürdün Haşimi Krallığı barındırdığı Filistinli göçmenler nedeni ile bağımsızlığını kazandığı 1946 yılın- dan bu yana, kimlik ve ulus-inşa süreçlerinde sürekli bir değişim yaşamıştır. Gayri resmi rakamlara göre nüfusunun %70’ini, resmi rakamlara göre ise %43’ünü oluşturan Filistinlilere vatandaşlık hakkı tanıyan tek Arap ülkesinin Ürdün olması,...