Middle Eastern Studies articles from March 1 2004

Middle Eastern Studies archives from March 1 2004

Egyptian investment in the Sudan: 'assistance or exploitation?'.
March 1, 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...

Turkey's reliance on Britain: British political and diplomatic support for Turkey against Soviet Demands, 1943-47.
March 1, 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...

Britain's Middle East strategy, 1950-52: General Brian Robertson and the 'small' Arab States.
March 1, 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...

Ordered liberty and disciplined freedom: Turkish education and republican democracy, 1923-50.
March 1, 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,...

Religiosity, support for Seriat and evaluations of secularist public policies in Turkey.
March 1, 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...

Fifty years on: Turkey's voting orientation at the UN General Assembly, 1948-97.
March 1, 2004... As is well known, the United Nations (UN) has been at the forefront of endeavours pertaining to the progressive development of international law for over 50 years. To realize its objectives, the UN has had to find ways of encouraging...

Islam and Islamism.
March 1, 2004... Bruce Lincoln begins his short book--perhaps collection of essays would be a better description--with a discussion of some definitions of religion. (1) Lincoln is professor of religions at the University of Chicago, the academic home of...

The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire edited by Jens Hanssen, Thomas Philipp and Stefan Weber. Beirut: Orient Institut der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, 2002. Pp.xi+375, index, 73 illustrations....

Germany and the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Germany and the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future edited by Haim Goren. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press, 2003. Pp.350, incl. indices. This collection consists of 17 essays, varying from eight to 45 pages in length. Twelve of these...

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews by Benny Morris. London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002. Pp. 297, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 186064 8126. Much has been written about John Bagot Glubb,...