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Geopolitical Rebranding of the ‘New Syria’ amid the Turkey-Gulf Rapprochement 在土耳其与海湾国家和解的背景下，“新叙利亚”的地缘政治重塑

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70054

Hae Won Jeong

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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning By Peter Beinart. Knopf, 2025. 192 pages. $26, hardcover. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This By Omar El Akkad. Knopf, 2025. 208 pages. $28, hardcover. 彼得·贝纳特的《加沙被毁后的犹太人：清算》。克诺夫出版社,2025年。192页。26美元,精装书。总有一天，每个人都会一直反对这一点。克诺夫出版社,2025年。208页。28美元,精装书。

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2026-03-10 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70057

A.R. Joyce

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Ottoman Coup Traditions and the Republican Army's Legacy 奥斯曼政变传统和共和军的遗产

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70024

Sertif Demir, Yaşar Ertürk

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Jordan's Stability and Regime Survival amid the War on Palestinians 在对巴勒斯坦的战争中，约旦的稳定和政权的生存

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70023

Nur Köprülü, Fadi Al-Ghrouf

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Between Diplomacy and Non-Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine Edited by Gülistan Gürbey, Sabine Hofmann, and Ferhad Ibrahim Seyder. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023. 332 pages. $139.99, paper. 在外交与非外交之间：库尔德斯坦-伊拉克和巴勒斯坦的外交关系，作者：g<s:1> listan g<e:1> rbey， Sabine Hofmann和Ferhad Ibrahim Seyder。Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023。332页。139.99美元,纸。

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2024-10-15 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.12780

Hogr Tarkhani

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Explaining the Post-October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan 解释10月7日之后以色列与埃及和约旦和平协议的持久性

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2026-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70053

Chen Kertcher, Carmela Lutmar

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Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World By Daniel Drewski, and Jürgen Gerhards. Oxford University Press, 2024. 320 pages. Open access. 《框架难民：全球六个国家如何讨论接纳难民》，作者：丹尼尔·德鲁斯基和约尔根·格哈德斯。牛津大学出版社，2024年。320页。开放获取。

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.12801

Emrah Atar

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Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub 地缘政治和可持续发展的愿望：土耳其作为能源中心的崛起

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70022

Umud Shokri

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Jordan's Role in Establishing a Sunni-Israeli Alliance Against Iran 约旦在建立逊尼派-以色列对抗伊朗联盟中的作用

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2026-02-22 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70031

Ronen Yitzhak

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Turkey's Relations with Gulf States: Temporary Shift or Permanent Alignment? 土耳其与海湾国家的关系：暂时转变还是永久结盟？

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Middle East Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-31 Epub Date: 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/mepo.70052

Engin Koç

{"title":"Turkey's Relations with Gulf States: Temporary Shift or Permanent Alignment?","authors":"Engin Koç","doi":"10.1111/mepo.70052","DOIUrl":"10.1111/mepo.70052","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2023, despite more than a decade of enmity, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan secured a string of multibillion-dollar deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. What explains the abrupt thaw, and is this a durable realignment or a temporary detour? This article contends that interstate relations are shaped primarily by identity. In the early 2000s, Turkey abandoned its secular tradition and embraced political Islam. During the Arab Spring, this ideology led it to build links to the Muslim Brotherhood—a group that Saudi Arabia and the UAE saw as a threat to regime stability. Despite the political and economic risks, the analysis shows, Ankara's behavior was driven by its identity. The article compares the period of conflict to the post-2020 opening between Turkey and the Gulf states. While economic interests have become more salient, resulting in cooperation, the findings indicate that the underlying ideological differences persist. Reconciliation is therefore likely to be reversible, not enduring. This article is part of a series on Turkey-Gulf relations, guest edited by Hamdullah Baycar and Betul Dogan-Akkas, based on the Gulf Studies Symposium organized by the Gulf International Forum, April 11–12, 2025, at Georgetown University in Washington.","PeriodicalId":46060,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Policy","volume":"33 1","pages":"149-167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147686802","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}

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