Turkey and the War in Ukraine
Dimitar Bechev, author of Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West, writes about Turkey’s role as a mediator in…
Syria
The Road Before Me Weeps by Nick Thorpe – An Extract
War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants…
Battle for Syria, Part Two: US Foreign Policy & the Syrian Conflict
In his new book, The Battle for Syria, Christopher Phillips describes the Syrian conflict as both a symptom and a re-enforcer of a perceived decline…
Battle for Syria, Part One: The Impact of International Involvement
‘We cannot understand the Syrian civil war without understanding the complex web of international relations surrounding it’ Most accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil…
The Two Futures of the Arab World, An Essay By Tarek Osman
Five years since the Arab uprisings, a political, cultural and social battle is still raging across the Middle East. Tarek Osman, the author of…
Why this really is a battle for the Arab Spring: Author Article by Lin Noueihed and Alex Warren
The Battle for the Arab Spring is a new book from Yale that explains the explosive events of the Arab Spring, assesses each country’s accomplishments…
Author Article by Lyric Hale: On the Road to Damascus – Why unemployment causes political instability
In the next installment of our weekly column from What’s Next? author Lyric Hale, the top economic commentator discusses the importance of job opportunities in creating a functioning…
Autumn 2011 Preview: New books on the Middle east
Yale University Press publishes cutting-edge current affairs books. Today we look at Yale’s Autumn 2011 list, picking specific titles that deal with conflicts in…