{"title":"Turkish anti-Americanism: between Europe and the Middle East","authors":"Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2025.2477786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2025.2477786","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144193420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Debates on the legitimacy of family foundations in the shadow of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman centralization policies","authors":"Necmettin Kızılkaya","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2025.2471472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2025.2471472","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144193423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ottoman statesman’s early career: the appointment of Mustafa Reşit Bey (Pasha) to the amedi chamber and his role in the Treaty of Kütahya","authors":"Serkan Gül","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2025.2469714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2025.2469714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144193426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israel and the Gulf monarchies: a new Regional Security Complex or just complex regional security?","authors":"Clive Jones","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2025.2455378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2025.2455378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144193401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 'villa in the jungle' nuclear paradigm: Israel's nuclear narrative and practice in a changing regional security complex.","authors":"Ludovica Castelli","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2025.2455375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2025.2455375","url":null,"abstract":"The 'villa in the jungle' metaphor, conventionally associated with Israel's former Defence Minister Ehud Barak, is one of the most referenced metaphors in Israeli political discourse. Its perpetuation has contributed to the fixation of two co-constitutive collective identities: Israel as an exemplary democratic society amidst a violent and backward Arab neighbourhood. This article examines an often-overlooked aspect of such a discourse: its transposition within Israel's nuclear narrative and its impact on Israel's nuclear politics. It contends that the perpetuation of this discourse has fuelled Israel's nuclear orientalist narrative, fixing a paradigm according to which certain identities have crystallised as commonsensical and certain actions as legitimate. On one hand, it has helped to construct Israel's entitlement to possess nuclear weapons and the Arab non-entitlement thereto. On the other hand, it has provided a rationale for Israel's kinetic counterproliferation actions. However, the 'villa in the jungle' discourse and the identities constructed by it are anchored to a specific security context, which saw Israel as an isolated country facing an existential threat. But what if a change in the status quo, such as the emergence of a new regional security complex (RSC), devalued the 'villa in the jungle' paradigm and thus delegitimised both Israel's nuclear orientalist discourse and practice? As Israel normalises its relations with Gulf monarchies and civilian nuclear programmes become increasingly salient in the region, for the first time since its creation, Israeli policymakers might find themselves entangled in a new dilemma, one centred on a re-assessment of the definition of 'enemy state' in Naor's very first definition of the Begin Doctrine - or the 'jungle' in Barak's definition.","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"358-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hamad H. Albloshi, Courtney Freer, Morten Valbjørn
{"title":"Beyond the usual suspects – bringing in Kuwait’s Shiʿi Islamists","authors":"Hamad H. Albloshi, Courtney Freer, Morten Valbjørn","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2025.2467756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2025.2467756","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144193400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gifting books, bribing elites, reaching the masses: Italian fascist propaganda in Turkey, 1923–38","authors":"Buğra Can Bayçifci","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2024.2415058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2024.2415058","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Fascist Italy’s attempts in the interwar era to influence Turkish perceptions of fascism and Italy. The techniques to be reviewed include interviews by diplomatic personnel, t...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilient locusts, ignorant people, modern state and scientific knowledge: a late Ottoman human-animal-state history","authors":"Zeynep Akçakaya","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2024.2415986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2024.2415986","url":null,"abstract":"This article revisits Ottoman history by exploring the enduring relationship between humans and locusts through an animal-human history approach, emphasizing their ‘companionship’ and combined agen...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}