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  • Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939

    Migration in a Post-Imperial World

    by Isa Blumi ...
    In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis unfolded. Often, these refugees of the Ottoman Empire - Christians, Muslims and Jews - found their way to new continents, forming an Ottoman diaspora that had a remarkable ability to reconstitute, and even expand, the ethnic, religious, and ... Read more

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  • Chaos in Yemen

    Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism

    by Isa Blumi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen’s complex social, political and economic transformations since unification in 1990. By offering a new perspective to the violence afflicting the larger region, it explains why the ‘Abdullah ‘Ali Salih regime has become the principal beneficiary of these conflicts.Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach, the author offers an alternative ... Read more

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  • Religion in the Post-Yugoslav Context

    Religion in the Post-Yugoslav Context brings together a diverse group of scholars, each of them specializing in the role of religion in one of the Yugoslav successor states. In addition to providing the readership with the understanding of both the general context (religion during the disintegration of the Yugoslav state) as well as more specific aspects (individual post-Yugoslav states), this ... Read more

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  • Destroying Yemen

    What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World

    by Isa Blumi ...
    Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces—supported by Britain and the United States—has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world’s media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full-scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first in-depth historical account of the transnational origins of this war, placing it in the illuminating ... Read more

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  • War and Nationalism

    The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913, and Their Sociopolitical Implications

    Edited by M Hakan Yavuz, Isa Blumi ...
    Series series Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud
    War and Nationalism presents thorough up-to-date scholarship on the often misunderstood and neglected Balkan Wars of 1912 to 1913, which contributed to the outbreak of World War I. The essays contain critical inquiries into the diverse and interconnected processes of social, economic, and political exchange that escalated into conflict. The wars represented a pivotal moment that had a long-lasting ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Understanding Life in the Borderlands

    Boundaries in Depth and in Motion

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    The past two decades have seen an intense, interdisciplinary interest in the border areas between states—inhabited territories located on the margins of a power center or between power centers. This timely and highly original collection of essays edited by noted scholar I. William Zartman is an attempt “to begin to understand both these areas and the interactions that occur within and across them” ... Read more

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    Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State

    From our earliest schooldays, we are shown the world as a colorful collage of countries, each defined by their own immutable borders. What we often don't realize is that every political boundary was created by people. No political border is more natural or real than another, yet some international borders make no apparent sense at all. While focusing on some of these unusual border shapes, this ... Read more

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  • Kurds and the State in Iran

    The Making of Kurdish Identity

    by Abbas Vali ...
    In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative influence on the subsequent development of Kurdish nationalist movements in Iran and the wider region. Here, Abbas Vali disputes the conventional view that ... Read more

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  • Is There a Middle East?

    The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

    Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests—or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label? While the term has achieved common usage, no one studying the region has yet addressed whether this conceptualization has ... Read more

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  • Nation-Building and Personality Cult in Turkmenistan

    The Türkmenbaşy Phenomenon

    Series series Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies
    Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the eccentricities of its late president Saparmurat Niyazov Türkmenbaşy, whose ideological construction and dynamics of power have remained in place after his death.This book offers a thorough analysis of why this personality cult developed in Turkmenistan in a way that has ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey

    Edited by Metin Heper, Sabri Sayari ...
    In recent years, there has been growing interest in Turkey, stemming from the country’s developing role in regional and global politics, its expanding economic strength, and its identity as a predominantly Muslim country with secular political institutions and democratic processes. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging profile of modern Turkey. Bringing together original ... Read more

    $72.99 USD