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NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATED GLORIA WEBSITE
MERIA JOURNAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
TURKISH STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES INDEX
TURKISH STUDIES TABLE OF CONTENTS
WATCH ON THE MIDDLE EAST
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Newly Revised and Updated GLORIA Website
Due to our rapid growth, we took our sites offline in order to redesign and upgrade them using newer, faster, more reliable technology plus redoing the coding. We have laid the groundwork for a more interactive website, which will contain video and audio streams as well as more interactive databases. We have also improved our software, thus enabling faster searching and page request uploads. This new platform will enable our continued growth. We invite you to visit the websites: www.gloriacenter.org and http://www.meriajournal.com. You can subscribe to either of these sites and receive notice when new items are published.
Table of Contents for MERIA Journal, Volume 12, Number 4 (December 2008).
The December 2008 issue of MERIA Journal will be out shortly and sent to all subscribers. The issue is highlighted with special coverage on the new U.S. president and administration. The GLORIA Center and MERIA Journal commissioned 11 special articles on the issues and likely course of the new U.S. government toward the Middle East. Featured items include:
Kenneth M. Pollack, who has just visited Iraq, writes on the current situation there and the challenges for U.S. policy.
In a symposium, nine U.S.-based analysts discuss in depth the main issues facing the United States and analyze the options as well as dangers Washington faces in the region.
Four leading Israeli experts examine the prospects for U.S.-Israel relations and aspects of U.S. strategy in the Middle East.
This material, organized into three articles, headlines the issue:
- Kenneth M. Pollack, "Passing the Baton: An Obama Administration Takes on the Challenge of Iraq"
- Symposium, "An Obama Administration in the Middle East: A Symposium":
- Barry Rubin, "The Administration's Theme: Conciliation with Enemies"
- Patrick Clawson, "Obama, the Gulf, and Iran"
- Norvell B. De Atkine, "Iraq: The Chimera of the 16-Month Withdrawal"
- David Schenker, "Syria, Israel, and Lebanon"
- John S. Duffield, "The Obama Presidency, Oil, and the Middle East"
- Mark N. Katz, "What Obama Should Do About Russia in the Middle East"
- Barry Rubin, "The Region's Dilemma: How to Deal with Obama"
- Jeffrey Azarva, "Obama and Egypt's Coming Succession Crisis"
- Tony Badran, "Syria Sets Its Traps for the Obama Administration"
- Panel Discussion, "Israel and the Obama Presidency: A Roundtable Discussion." Participants include Prof. Barry Rubin, Ambassador Daniel Ayalon, Ambassador Dan Halpern, and Zvi Rafiah.
In addition, the following articles will appear:
- Isaac Kfir, "Pakistan and the Challenge of Islamist Terror: Where to Next?"
- Mark N. Katz, "Implications of the Georgian Crisis for Israel, Iran, and the West"
- Raymond Ibrahim, "An Analysis of al-Qa'ida's Worldview: Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation?"
- Eli Elhadj, "Dry Aquifers in Arab Countries and the Looming Food Crisis"
- Bill Park, "The Fethullah Gulen Movement"
Turkish Studies available in Social Sciences Index
We are pleased to announce that Turkish Studies will be included in the Social Science Index, one of the largest bibliographic databases which indexes articles from English-language periodicals. The Index will provide quick access to Turkish Studies articles and abstracts. All Turkish Studies authors will have their work listed in the index.
Turkish Studies, Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2009), Special Issue: Turkey as a Trans-Regional Actor
The March 2009 issue of Turkish Studies "Special Issue: Turkey as a Trans-Regional Actor," with Guest Editor Lenore G. Martin, will soon be available. Turkish Studies is also pleased to announce that beginning in 2009, production of the journal will be increased to four issues per year. To order, click here. The following articles will appear in the March issue:
- Introduction
- Ziya Önis and Suhnaz Yilmaz, "Between Europeanization and Euro-Asianism: Foreign Policy Activism in Turkey during the AKP Era"
- Mario Zucconi, "The Impact of the EU Connection on Turkey's Domestic and Foreign Policy"
- Willem F. van Eeklen, "Transitional Arrangements as Milestones towards EU Enlargement"
- Petros Vamvakas, "NATO and Turkey in Afghanistan and Central Asia: Possibilities and Blind Spots"
- Lenore G. Martin, "Turkey and Gulf Cooperation Council Security"
- Carol Saivetz, "Tangled Pipelines: Turkey's Role in Energy Export Plans"
- Füsun Türkmen, "Turkish-American Relations: A Challenging Transition"
WATCH ON THE MIDDLE EAST
The GLORIA Center has launched a new feature, "Watch on the Middle East" to serve you with short, real time remarks and data on Middle East news. You can subscribe to it using RSS. Go to http://www.watchonthemiddleeast.com.
PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
GLORIA Books on Kindle Book Reader
Most of our published books are now available at a discount on Amazon's Kindle book reader. Please write us for more details: info@gloriacenter.org. To view our publications catalog, click here.
Mutayyam al O'ran, Jordanian-Israeli Relations: The Peace Building Experience (Routledge, October 2008). 128 pages. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780415437844. Jordan's peace treaty with Israel was unique as it bore the promise of what was termed a "warm" peace between the two warring countries. With legitimacy provided by Madrid and Oslo, hopes for "true" peace, as the Israelis would describe it, were high. This book explores the Jordanian-Israeli relations from a Jordanian perspective, focusing on the peacebuilding experience since 1994. In examining the reasons why a warm peace has not developed, the book focuses on the interplay between agency and structure on the Jordanian side, in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian context. In doing so, the book discusses the role of the various Jordanian leadership layers in the process and brings to the light intra-societal dynamics and particularities of the Jordanian social construct. To order, click here. |
