Middle East Archive
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U.S. Foreign Policy and The Arab Spring
This article, appeared on the Political Reflections Magazine, vol.3, n.2, is the second part of my review of FPA’s Great Decisions episode on the Arab Spring: The first part, providing a general overview of the debate can be found here. ********************************** As the uncertainty of the Arab Spring continues, the debate on the future of the movement [...] -
Culture, epistemology and foreign policy: An alternative reading of U.S.-Turkish relations within the context of the Middle East
Vol.1 No.3, September 2010 There is a subtle, yet very critical dimension to this seeming stagnation in Turkish-American relations that elides almost all analyses and observers: the dimension of culture and epistemology. This dimension became more explicit to me as I participated in a roundtable conference recently that had brought a group of American and [...]
