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From Allies to Adversaries: The Impact of Identity Change on Turkish–Israeli Relations 从盟友到对手:身份变化对土以关系的影响
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70003
Nurlan Muminov
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The Neo-Mercantilist Nexus: China's Geoeconomics Strategy in the Middle East—Discourse and Practice 新重商主义的联系:中国在中东的地缘经济战略——论述与实践
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1111/dome.70001
Riya Sultana, Ronen A. Cohen
{"title":"The Neo-Mercantilist Nexus: China's Geoeconomics Strategy in the Middle East—Discourse and Practice","authors":"Riya Sultana,&nbsp;Ronen A. Cohen","doi":"10.1111/dome.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a cornerstone of its hybrid neo-mercantilist geoeconomics strategy, reshaping the Middle East's geopolitical and economic landscape. This research explores how the BRI enables China to secure energy resources, expand trade networks, and establish strategic infrastructure, thereby advancing its global ambitions in a multipolar world. Unlike traditional Western military-diplomatic approaches, China leverages economic engagement to fill the void left by US retrenchment, competing with powers like Russia, the EU, and India. Focusing on Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the UAE, this study examines how China's economic policies influence regional power dynamics and align with its broader geopolitical ambitions. This research addresses two key questions: To what extent does the BRI redefine China's role in the Middle East compared to other external powers? And does China's growing economic entanglement in the region signal a shift from its traditional noninterference policy toward a more pragmatic and interventionist approach? Using a mixed-methods framework that combines qualitative analysis of policy documents with quantitative evaluation of trade flows and investment patterns, this study concludes that although the BRI strengthens China's regional influence, it also introduces vulnerabilities that may compel a recalibration of its foreign policy. The findings highlight how neo-mercantilism underpins China's evolving role in the Middle East and its impact on global power dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dome.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143827039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Authoritarianism and the Emergence of Parallel State Dynamics: Evidence From the Syrian Earthquake
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12347
Rahaf Aldoughli
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The Internationalization of Deterrence: The Case Study of Iran's Biaxial Deterrence in the Middle East 威慑的国际化:以伊朗在中东的双轴威慑为例 La internacionalización de la disuasión: el caso de estudio de la disuasión biaxial de Irán en Oriente Medio
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12350
Rahim Baizidi
{"title":"The Internationalization of Deterrence: The Case Study of Iran's Biaxial Deterrence in the Middle East\u0000 威慑的国际化:以伊朗在中东的双轴威慑为例\u0000 La internacionalización de la disuasión: el caso de estudio de la disuasión biaxial de Irán en Oriente Medio","authors":"Rahim Baizidi","doi":"10.1111/dome.12350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12350","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The concept of deterrence is central to both international relations and strategic studies, as it endeavors to establish peace through the “threat to reciprocal retaliation.” The Cold War era as the golden age of nuclear deterrence revealed that even the most powerful states are enthusiastic to transfer part of their strategic and military capabilities, such as nuclear weapons, to other states to countering potential threats. By presenting the concept of “internationalization of deterrence,” this article addresses the implementation of Iran's biaxial deterrence in the Middle East. Internationalizing deterrence entails the transfer of military and security capabilities from a deterrent power to allied and cooperative nations, thereby enhancing both the effectiveness and credibility of deterrence measures. The internationalization of deterrence encompasses a variety of strategies, including nuclear sharing, the creation of military bases in foreign countries, the backing of allied groups, and the overseas deployment of missiles. Biaxial deterrence is also an element of Iran's internationalized deterrence strategy, focusing on two interconnected dimensions: aligned groups—protégés—and advancing of their conventional weapons capabilities in the Middle East. Through internationalization of its conventional deterrence, Iran has sought to enhance its deterrent capabilities and credibility while minimizing costs and maximizing effectiveness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Advancing Women's Social and Political Rights Through a Reinterpretation of Islamic Law: Ayatollah Jannaati's View of Female Political Authority in Shiite Islam 通过重新解读伊斯兰教法来促进妇女的社会权利和政治权利:阿亚图拉·贾纳蒂对什叶派伊斯兰教中女性政治权威的看法 El fomento de los derechos sociales y políticos de las mujeres a través de una reinterpretación de la ley islámica: la visión del ayatolá Jannaati sobre la autoridad política femenina en el islam chiita
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12351
Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi
{"title":"Advancing Women's Social and Political Rights Through a Reinterpretation of Islamic Law: Ayatollah Jannaati's View of Female Political Authority in Shiite Islam\u0000 通过重新解读伊斯兰教法来促进妇女的社会权利和政治权利:阿亚图拉·贾纳蒂对什叶派伊斯兰教中女性政治权威的看法\u0000 El fomento de los derechos sociales y políticos de las mujeres a través de una reinterpretación de la ley islámica: la visión del ayatolá Jannaati sobre la autoridad política femenina en el islam chiita","authors":"Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi","doi":"10.1111/dome.12351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12351","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>One of the most important questions on which Muslim reformers have challenged traditional jurisprudence is that of the institutionalized discrimination against women, with respect to their social and political rights under Islamic jurisprudence. Traditional jurisprudents cite specific verses from the Qur'an and Hadiths and consider the political and social management of Islamic societies to be exclusive to men. Ayatollah Jannaati is one of Iran's leading Shiite Muslim jurisprudents to call for a review of women's rights, based on dynamic jurisprudence, and declares that women, just like men, may hold the highest religious, political, and social positions in Islamic countries, and enjoy equal rights. This article adopts a theological and hermeneutical approach, and references many primary sources in Persian, including Jannaati's books, articles, and interviews, to determine how the new reading of the Qur'an and Hadith, and his unique theological and epistemological presuppositions, have enabled him to issue such a fatwa regarding the political and social rights of women under Islam.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Between Colonialism and Patriarchy: The Role of Agency Among Palestinian Women in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12349
Lana Shehadeh, Samira Ayalan
{"title":"Between Colonialism and Patriarchy: The Role of Agency Among Palestinian Women in the West Bank and East Jerusalem","authors":"Lana Shehadeh,&nbsp;Samira Ayalan","doi":"10.1111/dome.12349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>与研究发展中国家妇女能动性的文献不同,本文分析了殖民情境下妇女能动性的具体实践,聚焦于以色列占领下的巴勒斯坦领土。在理解这一独特情境时,我们观察到妇女能动性的作用不仅体现在巴勒斯坦社会的传统性别角色中,还体现在“反对限制其存在的殖民结构”的逻辑中。本文中,我们假设,巴勒斯坦妇女在真正掌握她们在保守传统阿拉伯社会中的能动性之前,要先应对殖民主义和占领这一现实。本研究中,我们从两个不同的角度研究巴勒斯坦妇女的能动性:(a)传统的阿拉伯文化;(b)占领的殖民结构。为了探究这一现象,我们采访了20名来自约旦河西岸和东耶路撒冷城镇的农村妇女和城市妇女,以分析这些主题。这些访谈阐明了非单一巴勒斯坦妇女经历的性质,并试图通过巴勒斯坦领土的情境来证明这一点。</p><p>Partiendo de la literatura que examina la capacidad de acción de las mujeres en el mundo en desarrollo, este artículo analiza el ejercicio específico de la capacidad de acción de las mujeres en un contexto colonial, más específicamente, en los territorios palestinos bajo ocupación israelí. Para entender este contexto único, observamos el papel de la capacidad de acción de las mujeres no sólo dentro de los roles de género tradicionales de la sociedad palestina, sino a través de la lógica de oposición a las estructuras coloniales que restringen su existencia. Aquí, asumimos que las mujeres palestinas se enfrentan a las realidades del colonialismo y la ocupación antes de comprender verdaderamente su sentido de capacidad de acción dentro de lo que se sabe que es una sociedad árabe tradicional y conservadora. En este estudio, examinamos la capacidad de acción de las mujeres palestinas desde dos ángulos separados: (a) la cultura árabe tradicional y (b) las estructuras coloniales de ocupación. Para explorar este fenómeno, entrevistamos a 20 mujeres de las zonas rurales y urbanas de Cisjordania y Jerusalén Este para analizar estos temas. Estas entrevistas ilustran la naturaleza de la experiencia no monolítica de la mujer palestina e intentamos demostrarla a través del contexto de los territorios palestinos.</p>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Turbulent Diplomatic Relations in the Middle East: Israel, Denmark, and UNTSO Chief Vagn Bennike 动荡的中东外交关系:以色列、丹麦与停战监督组织主席Vagn Bennike Relaciones diplomáticas turbulentas en Oriente Medio: Israel, Dinamarca y el jefe de la ONUVT, Vagn Bennike
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-05 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12348
Nir Levitan, Kristine Kjærsgaard
{"title":"Turbulent Diplomatic Relations in the Middle East: Israel, Denmark, and UNTSO Chief Vagn Bennike\u0000 动荡的中东外交关系:以色列、丹麦与停战监督组织主席Vagn Bennike\u0000 Relaciones diplomáticas turbulentas en Oriente Medio: Israel, Dinamarca y el jefe de la ONUVT, Vagn Bennike","authors":"Nir Levitan,&nbsp;Kristine Kjærsgaard","doi":"10.1111/dome.12348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Against the background of international conflict, UN efforts to preserve peace have often inadvertently created complications between member states. When the UN was deploying peacekeeping forces to the Middle East in response to the Israeli-Arab conflict in 1948, conflicting priorities arose for Israel, the Arab nations, and also for Denmark. The following case study presents the early Danish involvement in peacekeeping within United Nations activities in the Middle East and its challenges. On the one hand, Denmark wanted to promote a high profile in the UN observation mission and to be seen as a strategic partner for peace on the world stage. On the other hand, Denmark did not want to damage relations with Israel which enjoyed a high degree of political capital in Danish circles. The Danish Foreign Office put forward Major General Vagn Bennike to be Chief of the UNTSO peacekeeping forces in 1953. His role was to supervise the ceasefire Agreements between Israel and its neighbors. Instead of guiding the parties to a more peaceful and stable process, the weakness of Bennike's diplomacy resulted in the parties adopting an even greater violent and aggressive policy. This article examines how this one individual influenced the UN peacekeeping forces and put in motion a chain of events that tested Danish–Israeli relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dome.12348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mahmoud Taleghani: A Pioneer Thinker of Social Islam in Contemporary Iran 马哈茂德·塔莱加尼:当代伊朗的社会伊斯兰思想先驱 Mahmoud Taleghani: un pensador pionero del islam social en el Irán contemporáneo
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12346
Seyed Mohammad Lolaki
{"title":"Mahmoud Taleghani: A Pioneer Thinker of Social Islam in Contemporary Iran\u0000 马哈茂德·塔莱加尼:当代伊朗的社会伊斯兰思想先驱\u0000 Mahmoud Taleghani: un pensador pionero del islam social en el Irán contemporáneo","authors":"Seyed Mohammad Lolaki","doi":"10.1111/dome.12346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12346","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The confrontation and comprehension of the Islamic world with regard to Western modernity, which has been unfolding for nearly two centuries, has obliged Muslim thinkers to study and reconceptualize this complex intersection of ideas. Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani was one of the most prominent figures of jurisprudential Islam, who adopted a modern interpretation of Islam and Shiism as part of the Iranian Islamic tradition. This article analyses the viewpoints of Taleghani, as a pioneer of this form of social Islam in contemporary Iran, focusing on Taleghani's thoughts under five different headings: the historical circumstances of Iran, his system of knowledge, his priorities for norms, his approach toward government, and public policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143121013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Saudi Savior—Justifying Operation Decisive Storm
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12345
Tom Walsh
{"title":"The Saudi Savior—Justifying Operation Decisive Storm","authors":"Tom Walsh","doi":"10.1111/dome.12345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper argues that despite the success of Saudi Arabia's use of discourse to legitimize Operation Decisive Storm, their initial bombing and blockade of Yemen, to the United States, ultimately these discourses were problematic. Via analyzing speeches from Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Adel Al-Jubeir, and articles from Saudi news website Arab News, this paper traces Saudi propaganda, showing the way in which it was used to justify the extraordinary bombing of Yemen and blockade of Yemeni ports. The paper meaningfully assesses the resonance of their narratives with US audiences through informed analysis. US discourse created a nexus of reciprocal positionality, in which Washington's discourse began to merge with Riyadh's, justifying it yet further. The US had its own reasons for lending support to KSA's war efforts, which encouraged them to adopt core Saudi narratives. This served to justify the two actors' involvement in the Saudi-led intervention. These propagandized narratives had profound humanitarian consequences for the people of Yemen.</p>","PeriodicalId":43254,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Middle East Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dome.12345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Editor's introduction—October 2024 编辑引言-2024 年 10 月
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Digest of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/dome.12343
Catherine Warrick
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