The Middle East

Arda Özkan is assistant professor at Ankara University, Department of International Trade and Logistics. Pınar Yürür is associate professor of political science and international relations at Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.

Chapter 1. The Resilience of the Assad Regime: An Assessment on the Syrian Civil War after More than a Decade

Özge Özkoç

Chapter 2. Lebanon: Sectarian Division Revisited within the Frame of the Regional Competition of Iran and Saudi Arabia

Fulya Özkan

Chapter 3. Mediation in Qatar’s Foreign Policy: Drivers, Features and Outcomes

Mehmet Osman Çatı

Chapter 4. Iran: What Does the Conservative Turn Mean About the Foreign Policy Implications?

Özgür Kızılyurt and Atay Akdevelioğlu

Chapter 5. Iraq in Between Two Powers: A Critical Overview of Internal Unbalance and a New War

Gizem Bilgin Aytaç

Chapter 6. The United Arab Emirates (UAE): A Rising Regional Stakeholder in the Gulf

Begüm Kurtuluş Abdulhayoğlu and Burcu Sunar Cankurtaran

Chapter 7. Israel's Changing Eastern Mediterranean Strategy: A Necessity in the Shadow of Geopolitics

Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu

Chapter 8. Yemen: Sectarian Division and a Proxy War

Uğur Pektaş and Yusuf Çınar

Chapter 9. The Water Problem in the Jordan River Basin from the Perspectives of the Riparian States: The Geography of Jordan River

Vildan Meydan

Chapter 10. Rethinking Palestine after the Arab Uprisings

Ayşe Ömür Atmaca

Chapter 11. Kuwait’s Security Concerns: 2017 Gulf Crisis

Derya Sürmelioğlu Parlar

Chapter 12. Oman: Balancing Through Diplomacy in the Gulf

Pınar Yürür

Chapter 13. Bahrain: State-Society Dichotomy in Arab Spring and Aftermath

Ayşe Küçük

Chapter 14. An Unresolved Maritime Dispute from the Middle East to the Balkans: Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case (Turkey v. Greece)

Arda Özkan

Chapter 15. Societal, Political & Security Implications of the Arab Spring in the Middle East

Bezen Balamir Coşkun and Ahmet Üçağaç

Chapter 16. How Could the New Energy Transformation/Policies Affect the Middle Eastern Actors?

Sanem Özer and Güneş Ersoy

Chapter 17. Politics of Migration into Turkey From The Middle East: Transition From Nationalizing to Neoliberal Policies Within 100 Years

Şebnem Köşer Akçapar

Chapter 18. Turkey and the European Union (EU) Relations: The Neoliberal Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) as Agenda Setters of a Middle Eastern Country

Levent Kırval

Chapter 19. Emerging Triangle in the Hydropolitics of the Euphrates and Tigris Basin: The Case of Turkey, Iran and Iraq

Ahmet Conker and İrem Çolak

Chapter 20. Green Sukuk and Its Potential in the Middle East

Yeşim Tanrıvermiş and Gülnaz Şengül Güneş

Chapter 21. Youth Political Activism in the Middle East

Cihan Dizdaroğlu and Esra Dilek

Chapter 22. A Strategic / Economic Investment Area in the Middle East: The Case of Iran

Erol Demir