Reviewed by Stacy Maruskin

It is a shame that more are not aware of the courage Turkish people possessed in their efforts to save the Jewish community during World War II. There are always new movies or books providing valiant details of that terrible mark in world history, but why does one rarely hear anything of Turkey’s role? There is a lack of international...

Reviewed by Müge Akpinar

In her new book, Interpénétrations: L'Islametl'Europe (Interpenetration: Islam and Europe–translated to Turkish from French by Ali Berktay, as ‘İçİçeGirişler: İslamveAvrupa’ 2008), Nilüfer Göle considers basic ‘conflictual’ issues in today’s modern societies. Göle is a professor of sociology at the École des HautesÉtudes in Paris and a distinguished Turkish scholar specializing in the issues of identity, Islam, modernity, gender and women. She...

Reviewed by Serpil Acikalin

Muslim Palestine: The Ideology of Hamas
By: Andrea Nusse
Harwood Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1998
187 pages
ISBN: 90-5702-334-2

The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence
By: Shaul Mishal & Avraham Sela
Columbia University Press, New York, 2006
280 pages
ISBN: 0-231-14006-1

Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad
By: Mathew Levitt
Yale University Press, 2006
324 pages
ISBN: 978-0-300-12258-9

After the death of Yasser Arafat at the end of...

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...