{"title":"MOROCCO: Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco, by Lorena Gazzotti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $110.","authors":"Katharina Natter","doi":"10.3751/76.2.306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/76.2.306","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has become a central tool in the migration control strategy pursued by European countries and the US, with donors, IOs, and NGOs becoming prominent actors. In this book, Lorena Gazzotti shows that migration control is not only exercised through fences and deportation. Building on extensive research in Morocco, Gazzotti shows that aid marks the rise of a substantially different mode of migration containment, one where power works beyond fast violence, and its disciplinary potential is augmented precisely by its elusiveness. Where existing studies on border externalisation have essentialised donors, IOs, and NGOs, with countries of ‘origin’ and ‘transit’ as compliant subcontractors, and border control as a neat form of intervention, this nuanced study unsettles such assumptions, to show that bordering happens in everyday, mundane fashions, far away from the spectacle of border violence.","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41548799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ISRAEL: Continuity and Change in Political Cul- ture: Israel and Beyond,edited by Yael S. Aronoff, Ilan Peleg, and Saliba Sarsar. (book review)","authors":"D. Divine","doi":"10.3751/76.2.304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/76.2.304","url":null,"abstract":"ISRAEL: Continuity and Change in Political Cul- ture: Israel and Beyond,edited by Yael S. Aronoff, Ilan Peleg, and Saliba Sarsar. London: Lexington Books, 2021. 256 pages. $110 cloth; $39.99 paper; $38 e-book.","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46186008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TURKEY: The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy, by Birol Başkan and Ömer Taşpınar. (book review)","authors":"Ihsan Yilmaz","doi":"10.3751/76.2.308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/76.2.308","url":null,"abstract":"TURKEY: The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy, by Birol Başkan and Ömer Taşpınar. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 222 pages. $95 cloth; $32.95 paper","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44853517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Elusiveness of Defense Cooperation: The Revealing Effect of the 2017–2021 Crisis","authors":"Jean-Loup Samaan","doi":"10.3751/76.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/76.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 2017–21 blockade of Qatar has frequently been depicted as the largest obstacle to further cooperation within the Gulf Cooperation Council. However, this narrative overestimates the impact of the dispute and underestimates the historical limitations of the GCC and its multilateral projects prior to the crisis. GCC initiatives rarely produced tangible results, even before 2017, because their primary function was at the rhetorical level for Gulf Arab rulers, providing them with narratives of apparent regional unity rather than with concrete instruments of cooperation.","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":"24 3","pages":"179 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41271971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BIOGRAPHY: Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa, by Susan Gilson Miller. (book review)","authors":"Jessica M. Marglin","doi":"10.3751/76.2.309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/76.2.309","url":null,"abstract":"BIOGRAPHY: Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa, by Susan Gilson Miller. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 248 pages. $30.","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42299965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gulf States and the Horn of Africa: Interests, Influences and Instability ed. by Robert Mason (review)","authors":"Michael Woldemariam","doi":"10.7765/9781526162175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526162175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":"76 1","pages":"415 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47507377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Social Media War in the Middle East","authors":"D. Byman","doi":"10.3751/75.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/75.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":"75 1","pages":"449 - 468"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47613486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endgames: Military Response to Protest in Arab Autocracies, by Hicham Bou Nassif. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 304 pages. $99.99 cloth; $34.99 paper.","authors":"Nathan W. Toronto","doi":"10.3751/75.3.316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/75.3.316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49609655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turkey: A Past Against History, by Christine M. Philliou. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 294 pages. $85 cloth; $32.95 paper.","authors":"Emine Ö. Evered","doi":"10.3751/75.3.311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/75.3.311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44854732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolution of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates , by Athol Yates. Warwick, UK: Helion & Co. 380 pages. $120.","authors":"Z. Barany","doi":"10.3751/75.3.312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3751/75.3.312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18627,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43145641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}