Hybrid Civilisation or Clash of Civilisations: Rethinking the Muslim Other
Author/editor: Ismail, R.
Year published: 2019
Power Shifts in the Saudi–Iranian Strategic Competition
Author/editor: Parkes, A.
Year published: 2019
The tensions between The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have afflicted the Gulf, and the broader Middle East region pervasively since the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran. The most theoretically illuminating feature of this conflict is that rather than isolated…
The Art of the Martyrs: The Taziyeh and Street Art in Contemporary Tehran
Author/editor: Miniature Malekpour
Year published: 2019
Effects of Iraq’s Parliamentary Gender Quota on Women’s Political Mobilization and Legitimacy Post-2003
Author/editor: Al-Tamimi, H.
Year published: 2018
Parliamentary gender quotas have become increasingly prevalent since the 1990s, yet in-depth research illuminating their effects on women’s political agency remains scarce. Iraq’s political evolution offers a unique perspective on feminist, democratization, and gender quota scholarship as related…
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Author/editor: Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
Year published: 2018
Fiction provides a way through the ethical quagmire brought about by the necessity of providing both anonymity to research participants and an honest account of the field. Sheyda, the main protagonist in this short story, is a compilation of three Afghan women who make an appearance only in…
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Turkey’s Middle Corridor: 'Win-Win Cooperation'?
Author/editor: Xiaoli Victoria Guo and Giray Fidan
Year published: 2018
For centuries, the ancient “Silk Road” — a network of trading routes established by the Han Dynasty spanning the Asian continent — served as a bridge between China and Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). In September 2013, President Xi Jinping delivered a long-anticipated speech in which he proposed…
Recognizing Fragmented Authority: Towards a post-Westphalian Security Order in Iraq
Author/editor: Damian Doyle (CAIS) & Dr Tristan Dunning (University of Qld)
Year published: 2018
The rollback of Daesh’s territorial control during 2017 has (re-)established an area of limited statehood in large parts of Iraq that may endure for many years. The government of Iraq projects its authority into a large geographical and political space that it shares with a multitude of other state…
Reformers and the Rentier State: Re-Evaluating the Co-Optation Mechanism in Rentier State Theory
Author/editor: Jessie Moritz
Year published: 2018
The oil and gas-rich states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have long been treated as exceptional, where distributions of rent-based wealth to society assumedly preclude political dissent. Yet, by examining informal and formal opposition in Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman since 2011, this article disputes…
'From hero worship to organized oblivion: Representations of the People's Front in Tajikistan's national memory'
Author/editor: Nourzhanov, K.
Year published: 2017
The People’s Front of Tajikistan (PFT), one of the parties to the country’s civil war, was instrumental in bringing the government of President Emomali Rahmon to power. The article examines the official strategies of memorialization of the PFT from the early 1990s to the present. It discusses the…
'Is Turkey Acting Fairly? — Turkey’s Choice in T-LORAMIDS',
Author/editor: Xiaoli Victoria Guo,
Year published: 2017