Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

1999 - 2026

Current editor(s): Professor Vassilis Fouskas

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Volume 28, issue 2, 2026

Turkish-British Policies Towards Cyprus Between Two Crises (1964–1967) pp. 179-196

Abdussamed Geçer

Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece and the League of Nations: Balancing Idealism and Realism in Small-State Diplomacy pp. 197-210

Antonis Klapsis

The Issue of Ahmet İzzet Pasha’s Candidacy for the Albanian Throne pp. 211-222

Metin Ayişiği

The Effect of Geography on Banditry Movements in 19th Century Smyrna and Its Hinterland pp. 223-257

İbrahim Hamaloğlu and Cihan Özgün

The Life and Rising Career Trajectory of the Exceptional Bureaucrat in the Late Ottoman Empire, Kavurzade Huseyin Celal Bey (1866–1924) pp. 258-273

Emine Şahin

Jordan’s Path to Stability: The Secrets of State Survival pp. 274-289

Ronen Yitzhak and Dorit Gottesfeld

Türkiye in China’s Eyes: What Do Chinese Newspaper Reports Reveal About China’s Strategic Interest in Türkiye? pp. 290-305

Burcin Bedel

To Be or Not to Be Dark? Tourists’ Voices on Visiting the Hill Church Cemetery, Sighișoara (Romania) pp. 306-325

Viorel Mionel and Oana Mionel

The War in Ukraine Unveiled: Beyond the Narratives pp. 326-329

William Mallinson

Volume 28, issue 1, 2026

Iran and post-Assad Syria: strategic dilemmas and constraints pp. 1-22

Shabnam Dadparvar and Amin Parto

The Rise of New Developmentalism in Turkey? A Query on Foreign Economic Relations pp. 23-46

Arda Bingül and Özgün Sarımehmet Duman

China’s Mediation Paradigm: How China’s Mediation Diplomacy Advanced Saudi-Iran Reconciliation pp. 47-66

Ramiz Abbaszada and Hongsong Liu

Embracing the Middle Ground in Response to Interrole Conflict: Germany’s Mediation in the Eastern Mediterranean pp. 67-86

Yusuf Gökhan Atak

The Merchants During the Metaxas Dictatorship in Greece (1936–1941) pp. 87-108

Vangelis Angelis

March 1941: Relations Between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria with a View to Joining the Tripartite Pact pp. 109-127

Boris Tomanić and Miloš Žikić

Understanding the Impact of the Wealth Tax of 1942 on the Non-Muslim Middle Class in Istanbul: Class Formation, Protégés and Foreign Citizenship pp. 128-144

Başak Ergüder

Revisiting Kemal Kaya in the Turmoil of 1930s Xinjiang pp. 145-167

Serdar Yurtcicek, Zhangxu Ye and Efe Can Gürcan

Cyprus 1974: Anatomy of an Invasion pp. 168-174

Carola Cerami

The Architecture Heritage of Edirne pp. 175-177

Emine Koseoglu

Volume 27, issue 6, 2025

Life and Death from Yemen to the Euphrates: An Evaluation on Syrian Governor Cemal Pasha pp. 813-833

Ümit Kurt

The Foreign Policy of PASOK and the Greek–Turkish Crisis in the Aegean (1981–89) pp. 834-854

Grigoris I. Tsaltas

The Black Sea-Danube Road as a New Foreign Trade Route Between Turkey and Central Europe (1935–1939) pp. 855-872

Göktuğ İpek

The Role of Social Policy in the Evolution of PASOK’s Strategic Priorities pp. 873-888

Constantine Dimoulas

The Three Waves of Change in Social Policy at a Local Level: Stages of Transformation pp. 889-904

Christoforos Skamnakis

Shifting Sands: Threat Perceptions and Security Among Gulf Cooperation Council Member States pp. 905-926

Khalid Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi

Socialists, Communists, and Radical Leftists in Democratic Greece (1974–2020): An Overview pp. 927-943

Costas Eleftheriou

From the Rise to Power to the Accession to the EMU: The Economic Policy of PASOK (1981–2001) pp. 944-962

Vassilis Patronis and Konstantinos Doukakis

The Ottoman Legacy of the Connected Histories of Demographic Engineering: The Case of the Ottoman Greeks of Western Anatolia pp. 963-981

Emre Erol

Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria pp. 982-985

Çiğdem Görgün Akgül

Volume 27, issue 5, 2025

Correction pp. ii-iv

The Editors

Perceptions and Policies of the Ottoman Empire on Italy’s Involvement in the Albanian Revolts (1911–1912) pp. 673-694

Volkan Aksoy

Reclaiming a Marsh in the Late Ottoman Empire: From a Local Initiative to a Large-Scale Enterprise in Serres pp. 695-713

Özkan Akpınar

The Clash Between Albanian Nationalism and the Ottoman Empire Over the Albanian Language, from Tanzimat to 1912 pp. 714-734

Ethem Çeku and Anton Panchev

‘A Tale of Two Cities’ and an Entrepreneur: Reading Vehbi Koç’s Entrepreneurship in the Ankara-Istanbul Duality pp. 735-760

Akansel Yalçınkaya

The Contribution of the Guaranteed Minimum Income in Alleviating Extreme Poverty in Greece pp. 761-778

Andreas Feronas and Nikos Kourachanis

The Emergence of Islamic Neoliberalism in Turkish Political Economy: The Governance of Education Systems in Turkey pp. 779-795

Gorkem Altinors

Migration, Mobility, and War: A Transnational Analysis of Diaspora Volunteering in Civil Conflicts pp. 796-811

Ahmet Yusuf Özdemir

Volume 27, issue 4, 2025

Cyprus, 1955–1959: The US, Britain and the USSR: Then is Now pp. 419-435

William Mallinson

Cyprus and Africa in the Makarios Era: Igniting the ‘Hot’ Solidarity Against Western Imperialism pp. 436-454

Şevki Kıralp

Defend the Nation, Crush the People: Desertion and Civil War in Greek Macedonia, 1916–17 pp. 455-473

Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez

The Political Uses of the Covid Pandemic in the Rise of Greek Neo-Authoritarianism pp. 474-494

Filippa Chatzistavrou and Konstantinos Papanikolaou

Syrian Immigrants and Turkish–European Union Migration Deals: Business as Usual pp. 495-512

Cenk Aygul

NATO’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Interoperability Challenges: The Case of Turkey pp. 513-529

Evrim Gormus

Assessing the Diffusion of Military Power Capacity of Middle Powers: The Case of Turkey pp. 530-558

Emel Parlar Dal and Samiratou Dipama

A Compromise Doomed to Failure: The Soviet Practice of Greek ‘Language Construction’ in the 1920s–1930s pp. 559-575

Fedor Sinitsyn

Rethinking Top-Down Revolutions: A Comparison of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia pp. 576-593

Ahmet Aykut Altay and Gökhan Çelen

From Missionary Teacher to Dysfunctional Technician: Teacher Training System in Turkey and Formations of Turkish Modernity pp. 594-614

Ziya Toprak

The Establishment of Economic Dirigism In Maritime Trade of Turkey, 1923–1950 pp. 615-631

Cihan Gunes

Turkish Foreign Policy in the Nexus Between Securitization and Populism pp. 632-651

Jülide Karakoç and Duygu Ersoy

Turning Brain Drain into Brain Network and Brain Exchange: A Case Study of Kosovo Albanian Diaspora in the United States pp. 652-669

Mimoza Dushi

Conflict Areas in the Balkans pp. 670-672

Nurcan Ceyhan

Volume 27, issue 3, 2025

The Chabahar Transit Project: Transition from Geo-Politics to Geo-Economics pp. 283-308

Shabnam Dadparvar and Vali Kaleji

Which Legitimization for de facto States? The Case of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq pp. 309-332

Mehmet Alkış and Ayşegül Sever

In the Service of the Eastern Bloc: Czechoslovak Intelligence and the Cyprus Conflict 1974–1989 pp. 333-353

Jan Koura

Political Rituals and Ideological Competition: The Emergence of an “Islamic” May Day in Turkey pp. 354-370

Nikos Moudouros

In Ottoman – British Commercial Relations Efforts to Increase Cotton Production in Smyrna and Its Surroundings (1855–1870) pp. 371-391

Cihan Özgün and İbrahim Hamaloğlu

EU Macro-Regional Strategy in the Adriatic and Ionian Region: A Territorial Perspective on the EU Enlargement Policy pp. 392-411

Raffaella Coletti and Luisa Chiodi

Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey pp. 412-414

Gorkem Altinors

The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier pp. 414-416

İlkay Yilmaz

Review of: “Turkish–Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework” pp. 416-418

Başar Baysal

Volume 27, issue 2, 2025

Anatolian Tigers: A Miracle or a Myth? A Regional Political Economic Analysis pp. 129-148

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk

Transformation of Identity among Slavic Muslim Pomaks in Bulgaria and Georgian Muslim Ajarians in Georgia: A Comparative Analysis pp. 149-171

Alter Kahraman and Ayşegül Aydıngün

Hegemony, Europeanization, and Migration Diplomacy: Case of the EU-Turkey Statement and Action Plan pp. 172-187

Sefa Mertek

The Late 19th Century Liberal Islamist Young Turk Movement in Egypt pp. 188-205

Servet Tiken and Özlem Sürücü

China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation in a Divided World: Narratives and Scenarios pp. 206-222

Antonina Habova

The Role of Republican and AKP Elites in the Construction and Reconstruction of Turkiye’s Foreign Policy Identity: A Critical Narrative Analysis pp. 223-241

Emine Akcadag Alagoz

The De-Europeanization of the Kurdish Question in Turkey and the EU pp. 242-261

Hüseyin Kalaycı

Beijing Winter Olympics and China’s Middle East Diplomacy in the Xi Era pp. 262-281

Song Niu

Volume 27, issue 1, 2025

Introduction: The Burden of History, Image, Geopolitics and Misperception in the Aegean pp. 1-12

Mustafa Aydin and Kostas Ifantis

A Historical Materialist Reading of the Contested Relations between Greece and Turkey pp. 13-35

Mustafa Türkeş, Elif Uzgören and Coşkun Soysal

Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya pp. 36-55

Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Chara Karagiannopoulou and Lerna K. Yanık

National Role Conceptions of Greek and Turkish Foreign Policies: A Bilateral Assessment pp. 56-72

Andreas Kotelis and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou

The Failed Vision of a Greek–Turkish Security Community? pp. 73-90

George Koukoudakis

Ontological Insecurity and the Return of the Greek-Turkish Conflicts: Reconfiguring Hagia Sophia as an Ontic Space pp. 91-109

Bahar Rumelili and Nasuh Sofuoglu

Enduring Crises and Possibilities for Cooperation in Turkish-Greek Relations: A Feminist Account pp. 110-127

Özlem Tür and Çiğdem Aydın Koyuncu