Reviewed by Tugay Zehir

David Romano had his book, The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity, published by Cambridge Middle East Studies in 2006. While Romano was preparing this book, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Inter-University Consortium for Arab and Middle East Studies in Canada, but is today an Assistant Professor of International Studies in Rhodes College. The book’s content relates to the Kurdish nationalist resurgence and its explanation with some social movement theories, which involve socio-political structures, resource mobilization strategies, and cultural identity. Romano also tries to explain the synthesis of these theories, particularly together with the Kurdish case in Turkey.


After some theoretical explanations, he provides some historical information regarding Iraqi and Iranian Kurds, and compares their cases with...

Reviewed by Bart Tieben

European Union-Turkey relations have been an important issue on both sides’ political agenda for over fifty years. In order to understand the history, the current situation, and the possible future of Turkey’s unique accession process, a large number of authors have been trying to contribute to this topic. Melmet Müftüler-Baç and Yannis A. Stivachtis selected papers that were used in the...

Reviewed by Arzu Turgut

Prior to the 9/11 attacks, Afghanistan was not a very popular country. However, since the United States’ declaration of the War on Terror, Afghanistan has suddenly been placed at the top of the world’s media headlines. As things in Afghanistan change very rapidly, it has never been off the world agenda. Today, everything that is written about Afghanistan becomes dated within...

Reviewed by Habibe Ozdal

Russia’s foreign policy is said to have been shaped by the Western and European attitude towards international issues. Even though Europe and the West have significant influence on Russian foreign policy, particular features of historical terms have also shaped it. While the foreign policy of Russia was affected by external factors, it can be claimed that it has still pursued...

Reviewed by Ceren Mutus

In the history of the modern European integration process, the enlargement strategy has proven to be one of the most important pillars of European security. It has formed the basis of the EU’s evolving soft-power, allowing the Union to stand as a global actor in the extended area ofpeace, security, democracy and rule of law.From the point of view of EU...