Islam and International Order POMEPS Studies 15 — July 22, 2015 Islam has rarely been far from the center of the world’s political and security agenda in the decade and a half since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack against
Iran and the P5+1 announced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action over Iran’s nuclear program on Tuesday in Vienna. The Monkey Cage takes a look at the Iran deal from three different angles: Sidra Hamidi of Northwestern University looks back
By Nora Fisher Onar, University of Oxford * This memo was prepared for the “Islam and International Order” workshop, April 29-30, 2015. The following condenses parts of the theoretical section of my monograph-in-progress entitled Acts of State. It aims to
By Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University * This memo was prepared for the “Islam and International Order” workshop, April 29-30 2015. In analyzing the relationship between religion and politics in the Arab world – and where the zones of
A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque in Kuwait during Friday prayers today, killing at least four people and injuring several others. An Islamic State affiliated group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place at the Imam Sadeq
By Bruce Lawrence, Duke University and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Istanbul * This essay has been republished for the “Islam and International Order” workshop with the gracious permission of SCTIW Review. A Review Essay of Lucian Stone, ed.,
Toby Matthiesen is a research fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t (Stanford University Press, 2013). POMEPS hosted
This week POMEPS released Rethinking Nations and Nationalism, a collection of essays resulting from a symposium we held with Laurie A. Brand at the University of Southern California earlier in the year. The political scientists in this collection offer a
With Turkish parliamentary elections fast approaching on June 7, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is campaigning hard among Turkey’s religious electorate. If his ruling AKP wins enough votes to govern with minimal interference from the opposition, the powers of what many
Rethinking Nation and Nationalism POMEPS Studies 14 — June 2, 2015 You couldn’t swing a dead imperialist last summer without hitting an essay about the unraveling of the Sykes-Picot system in the Middle East. The bloody disintegration of Iraq and Syria