Recently added articles from Middle Eastern Studies:
Ordered liberty and disciplined freedom: Turkish education and republican democracy, 1923-50.
Mar 01, 2004; ... For students of the twentieth-century Middle East, the problematic prospects of democracy attract great interest. Nation states in this region are politically young in comparison to those of western Europe. After emerging from colonial rule, they have undergone uneven socio-economic ...
Turkey's reliance on Britain: British political and diplomatic support for Turkey against Soviet Demands, 1943-47.
Mar 01, 2004; ... In general, Turkish foreign policy towards Russia and Britain has been shaped by the geographical position of Turkey rather than political motives. This is because Turkey occupied a geographical location where Russian interests were supreme in the north and lands and seas in which Britain ...
Britain's Middle East strategy, 1950-52: General Brian Robertson and the 'small' Arab States.
Mar 01, 2004; ... This article fills a lacuna in the study of a critical juncture in Britain's strategy for defence of the Middle East during the early 1950s. Scholarly attention to this period has dealt mainly with Anglo-Egyptian relations, the place of the Suez Canal in British strategy, the Anglo-Iranian ...
Egyptian investment in the Sudan: 'assistance or exploitation?'.
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Condominium era of Sudanese history, 1899-1956, provides scholars with a unique opportunity to examine the complexities of nationalist movements. Because of prior Egyptian governance of the region, because Egypt financed and provided most of the military support in the reconquest, and ...
Religiosity, support for Seriat and evaluations of secularist public policies in Turkey.
Mar 01, 2004; ... Over the past decade the once marginal extreme right end of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown both in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey. Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right rely on potentially ...