Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

1999 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor Vassilis Fouskas

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Volume 25, issue 6, 2023

Turkish–Israeli Relations in the 1960s: Trade, Trade Unions, and the Arab–Israeli War pp. 945-962

Efrat Aviv

The Political Economy of Passive Revolution in Albania: The Neoliberal Paradox and Transformation-Democratization Nexus pp. 963-981

Jonilda Rrapaj Kolasi and Klevis Kolasi

Beyond Ethnonationalism? Ethnos, Market and Culture in Croatian Policies of Citizenship pp. 982-1001

Vedrana Baričević

Candidate Countries’ Engagement with European Union Agencies – Alternative Modes of EU Integration? pp. 1002-1019

Michael Kaeding and Marko Milenković

The Dimensions and Attributes of State Failure in Syria pp. 1020-1036

Samer Bakkour and Rama Sahtout

An Island Getting Divided at the Cinema: Transformational Microhistory of Cinemagoing and Nationalism in Cyprus pp. 1037-1056

Barçın Boğaç

Back to Basics: The Re-Securitization of Cyprus by Turkey After Crans Montana pp. 1057-1074

Hüseyin Ergüven and Nur Köprülü

‘A Longdrawn-Out Game of Chess’ and the Camouflaged Partition of the Island of Cyprus that followed on 16 August 1960: A Review of Achilles C. Emilianides, A Longdrawn-Out Game of Chess: The Secret Negotiations About the British Bases (1959–1960) (Nicosia: Hippasus Communications & Publishing Ltd., October 2021) pp. 1075-1097

Klearchos A. Kyriakides

Greece’s (Un)competitive Capitalism and the Economic Crisis: Critical Thoughts Under the Lens of Social Policy pp. 1098-1102

Nikos Kourachanis

Can Nacar, Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872-1912 pp. 1102-1103

Başak Akgül

Constantinos Adamides, Securitization and Desecuritization Processes in Protracted Conflicts: The Case of Cyprus Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies pp. 1104-1108

Pınar Çağlayan

Hicret, Dîn ü Devlet: Osmanlı Göç Politikası(1856- 1908)[Hegira, the Religion and the State: The Ottoman Policy of Migration(1856- 1908)] pp. 1108-1110

Erdal Çiftçi

Review: Communism, Atheism, and the Orthodox Church of Albania: Cooperation, Survival and Repression pp. 1111-1114

John Henry

Volume 25, issue 5, 2023

Constitutions Octroyées And International State-Building: The Macedonian Case in Focus pp. 719-736

Biljana Vankovska

Cyprus: Korea by Transposition? pp. 737-777

Panayiotis Papadopoulos

The Rise of the Right-Wing Good Party (İYİP) in Turkey: Authoritarian Turn, Anomie, and Regulatory Nostalgia pp. 778-796

Fatih Çağatay Cengiz

Polar Silk Road Challenge to Sino-Egyptian Economic Relations in the Belt and Road Era pp. 797-810

Cem Yilmaz

The Complexities of Interreligious Dialogue in the Post-Yugoslav Context pp. 811-831

Vladimir Bakrač, Marko Dokić and Branislav Radeljić

Sailing Through Totalitarian Regimes. The Profile of a Shipping Company at the Lower Danube: Maritime Intercontinental pp. 832-849

Cristian Constantin

Why Decentralization Fails: A Case Study of Turkey pp. 850-870

Galip Emre Yildirim

Upgrading Authoritarianism During the Arab Uprisings: Armed Non-State Actors’ Confessional Alliances and Aborted Democratization in Syria pp. 871-887

Shaimaa Magued

Bearing the Brunt of Legitimacy and Power Challenges: The Turkish Armed Forces’ Fall from Grace, 1997-2018 pp. 888-905

Çetin Önder and Şükrü Özen

The Role of Railways in the Ottoman Empire During the First World War pp. 906-922

Nevin Coşar, Ecem Doygun and Sevtap Demirci

Analyzing the Mutual Geopolitical and Security Complementarity of Iran and Turkey: Border, Energy, and Water pp. 923-943

Ali Omidi and Hande Orhon Özdağ

Volume 25, issue 4, 2023

Balkan’s (Political) Economy: Learning from the Past pp. 583-585

Jovo Ateljevic

Serbia in Light of the Global Recomposition pp. 586-603

Mirjana Dokmanović and Neven Cvetićanin

Eastern Mediterranean Energy Geopolitics Revisited: Green Economy Instead of Conflict pp. 604-625

Andreas Stergiou

The Western Balkans and Geopolitics: Leveraging the European Union and China pp. 626-643

Danijela Jaćimović, Joel I. Deichmann and Kong Tianping

Post-Pandemic Inflation and Currency Board Arrangements in the Balkans pp. 644-670

Branka Topić Pavković and Tijana Šoja

The New Challenges of the Western Balkan Banking Industry During Ongoing Global Crisis pp. 671-682

Svetlana Sabljic, Tajana Serdar Rakovic and Vladimir Vasic

Do Wages Reflect Growth Productivity – Comparing the European East and West? pp. 683-699

Borce Trenovski, Dragan Gligorić, Kristijan Kozheski and Gunter Merdzan

From Bosnia and Herzegovina to China in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Personal Migration Histories pp. 700-717

Bojan Ćudić, David Hazemali, Matjaž Klemenčič and Jernej Zupančič

Volume 25, issue 3, 2023

The “One Guilty Nation” Myth: Edith Durham, R.W. Seton-Watson and a Footnote in the History of the Outbreak of the First World War pp. 297-321

David Kaufman

The Penetration of European Banking into Ottoman Lands During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century pp. 322-339

Nurhan Davutyan

The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkey: Some Causes for Concern pp. 340-377

Klearchos A. Kyriakides

Informal Application of Islamic Rules in Turkey: The Imposition by RTÜK of Islamic Ethics on Television Broadcasting pp. 378-398

Gokhan Bacik

Turkey’s Voting Preferences in the UN General Assembly During the AK Party Era as a Counterchallenge to Its ‘New’ Foreign Policy pp. 399-439

Berdal Aral

‘They Cannot Herd a Sheep’ Populist Politics and Its Struggles for and Against Education in Turkey pp. 440-457

Ezgi Pinar and Axel Gehring

Selahattín Ülkümen: The Turkish Righteous Among the Nations pp. 458-483

Yücel Güçlü

Another “Third Way” to Narrate the Existing Alliances in the Middle East: Turkey-Qatar, Saudi Arabia-UAE, and Iran-Syria pp. 484-505

Mustafa Yetim and İ̇smail Numan Telci

Islam and Politics in Turkey: Alliance and Disunion Between the Fethullah Gülen Movement and the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pp. 506-521

Bayram Balci

Turkey’s ‘Soft Power Interventionism’ in the Turkish Cypriot Community: Agents, Objectives, and Implications pp. 522-539

Pavlos I. Koktsidis

The Role of Armed Non-State Actors in Iran’s Syria Strategy: A Case Study of Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun Brigades pp. 540-557

Hamidreza Azizi and Amir Hossein Vazirian

Multidirectionality(ies) in the Turkish Foreign Policy: Compensatory, Complementary and Reactive Multidirectionality pp. 558-581

Betül Özyilmaz Kiraz

Volume 25, issue 2, 2023

Introduction to the Special Issue: New Diplomatic Histories of Turkey pp. 167-184

Deniz Kuru and Hazal Papuççular

Petitions, Propaganda, and Plots: Transnational Dynamics of Diplomacy During the Turkish War of Independence pp. 185-206

Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş and Alp Yenen

Contested Sovereignties: Turkish Diplomacy, the Straits Commission, and the League of Nations (1924–1936) pp. 207-221

Hazal Papuççular

Unconventional Diplomatic Initiatives of Nascent Turkish Republic: The Karadeniz Expedition in 1926 pp. 222-238

E. Tutku Vardağlı

Gendering Public Diplomacy: Turkey and Europe in the 1930s pp. 239-256

Bahar Rumelili, Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Seçkin Barış Gülmez

When Diplomats Lead to a War: The Role of the Turkish Diplomatic Bureaucracy in the Military Intervention in Cyprus pp. 257-277

Hüseyin Sert

‘Diplomatic Courage’: A Turkish Ambassador in Sinj pp. 278-296

Deniz Kuru

Volume 25, issue 1, 2023

Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies pp. 1-21

Alan Cafruny, Vassilis K. Fouskas, William D. E. Mallinson and Andrey Voynitsky

Between Europe and Asia: Narrow Spaces for Strategic Hedging in New Europe pp. 22-39

Wenlong Song

Editorial to the special issue on ”Asian Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean” pp. 40-47

Defne Gönenç, Emre İşeri and Qingan Huang

Russia and China in the Eastern Mediterranean: On Parallel Tracks? pp. 48-64

Pavel Shlykov and Ekaterina Koldunova

China’s ‘Silky Involvement’ in the Eastern Mediterranean: A geopolitical upper hand for Greece and Cyprus? pp. 65-81

Hayriye Kahveci-Özgür and Jiuzhou Duan

A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean pp. 82-101

Clemens Hoffmann and Ceren Ergenc

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South-South Cooperation pp. 102-117

Yahya Gülseven

China’s Seaport Investment in the Mediterranean Region and EU’s Interrogative Approach pp. 118-135

Zhiqiang Zou and Ahmet Faruk Isik

Iran’s New Chapter in Cuspness: Linking the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia pp. 136-151

Meliha Benli Altunisik and Derya Göçer

Night on Earth pp. 152-153

E. Tutku Vardağlı

Greece’s Ostpolitik. Dealing With the ‘‘Devil’’ pp. 153-156

Nikos Papanastasiou

The rise and fall of peacebuilding in the Balkans pp. 156-158

Damir Kapidžić

The ethno-nationality of a modern saint: an interdisciplinary approach pp. 158-160

Arnab Das

Digital age: the changes in economy, society, politics pp. 160-165

Vassilis K. Fouskas