Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

1999 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor Vassilis Fouskas

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Volume 22, issue 6, 2020

Introduction: The Transformations in Kurdish Politics and Society in Turkey Since 2000 pp. 717-729

Cengiz Gunes and Veli Yadirgi

The PKK’s Ideological Odyssey pp. 730-745

Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya

The Transformation of Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Democratic Movement pp. 746-761

Cengiz Gunes

A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey pp. 762-776

Mehmet Kurt

The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, 2009–2015 pp. 777-792

Arin Savran

Turkey’s Kurdish Question in the Era of Neoliberalism pp. 793-809

Veli Yadirgi

Volume 22, issue 5, 2020

Crisis in Turkey: Estimating the Potential Welfare Loss? pp. 561-579

Soner Uysal and Turan Subasat

Re-thinking Religion and Empire: Non-State Organizations from the Knights Hospitallers to ISIS pp. 580-596

Dominic Alessio and Lucas Villegas-Aristizábal

Clientelism and the Abuse of Power in the Western Balkans pp. 597-612

Branislav Radeljić and Vladimir Đorđević

The 2018 ‘Construction Peace’ in Turkey: A Neoliberal Inclusion or Populist Electoral Exchange? pp. 613-628

Ceren Ark-Yildirim

Economic Freedom in the Balkan Transition Countries from a Valuable Human Ends Perspective pp. 629-648

Mirjana Dokmanović and Neven Cvetićanin

Music to a Diplomat’s Ears…If They Listen pp. 649-665

Senem B. Çevik and Hasmik Piliposyan

Visualizing Empire: Cyprus and the Colonial Travelogue Film in the 1920s pp. 666-683

Jonathan Stubbs

Fear, Superiority, Self-Identification and Rejection: Turks’ Different Attitudes to Europe since the Late Ottoman Era pp. 684-700

Ipek Z. Ruacan

The Impact of Facebook on Serbian Society pp. 701-716

Ivan Sijakovic and Svetlana Vukotic

Volume 22, issue 4, 2020

Introduction: Changing Tourism in the Cities of Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe pp. 465-477

Duncan Light, Remus Cretan, Sorina Voiculescu and Ioan Sebastian Jucu

Rebranding the Cultural Legacy of Communism: The Golden Stag Festival (Braşov, Romania) and Local Placemaking pp. 478-493

Ioan Sebastian Jucu

Place Identity, Urban Tourism and Heritage Interpretation: A Case Study of Craiova, Romania pp. 494-505

Liliana Popescu, Amalia Nita and Costela Iordache

Festivals, Place-making and Local Economic Development: The Untold Festival in Cluj pp. 506-520

Iulia Cianga

Urban Sprawl and Its Impact on Urban Tourism in Romania pp. 521-533

R. Rusu, V. Bodocan and T. Man

Place Making and Tourism Logistics in Timișoara: Facing the Tasks of the Newly Appointed European Cultural Capital for 2021 pp. 534-546

Florentina Popescu and Sorina Voiculescu

European Capital of Culture, Urban Tourism and Cross-Border Cooperation Between Romania and Serbia pp. 547-559

Ilie Rădoi

Volume 22, issue 3, 2020

Special Issue: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and COVID-19 pp. 295-305

Vassilis K. Fouskas, Bülent Gökay and Biljana Vankovska

Then Is Now, but the Colours are New: Greece, Cyprus and the Evolving Power Game between the West, Russia and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean pp. 306-332

William Mallinson, Pavel Kanevskiy and Aris Petasis

Greece and Cyprus as Geopolitical Fodder, and the Russian Connexion pp. 333-342

William Mallinson

Geopolitics of the Prespa Agreement: Background and After-Effects pp. 343-371

Biljana Vankovska

Syria, Sarin and Cyprus: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom pp. 372-414

Klearchos A. Kyriakides

Turkey and Israel: Changing Patterns of Alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean pp. 415-430

Kıvanç Ulusoy

From Humanitarian Crisis Management to Prison Island: Implementing the European Asylum Regime at the Border Island of Lesvos 2015-2017 pp. 431-447

Alexandra Bousiou

The 2014/2015 Refugee Crisis in the EU and the Mediterranean Route pp. 448-464

Leila Simona Talani

Volume 22, issue 2, 2020

Introduction to the Centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution pp. 191-193

Mustafa Türkeş

The Versailles Order and Perplexities of the Comintern’s Policy in the Balkans in the 1930s: Departure from the World Revolution pp. 194-209

Olga Aganson

Lenin’s ‘Eastern Policy’ and Communism in Turkey and Greece, 1918-1923 pp. 210-221

Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay

Soviet Russia’s Foreign Affairs with Turkey in 1923 Reports of Ambassador Surits pp. 222-239

Gözde Somel

An Appraisal of Debates on the Turkish–Soviet Break-Up and Turkey’s Reorientation to the West from a Systemic Perspective pp. 240-258

Tolgahan Akdan

Effects of the Ideas of the October Revolution in Russia on the Foreign Policy of Yugoslavia in the Period 1945–1947 pp. 259-274

Dragan Đukanović and Marko Dašić

The Disintegrative Logics of Euro-Atlanticism pp. 275-293

William Mallinson

A Short History of Western Ideology: A Critical Account pp. 281-282

Anastasia Stouraiti

The Rise and Fall of Europeanization. What is Next for EU-Turkey Relations? pp. 283-286

Stelios Stavridis

The Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1: The Rise of Hitler and the Gathering Clouds of War 1932–1938; Volume 2: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and the Battle of Britain 1939–1940; Volume 3: The German Invasion of Russia and the Forging of the Grand Alliance 1941–1943 pp. 287-294

William Mallinson

Volume 22, issue 1, 2020

Instrumentalizing Islam in a ‘Secular’ State: Turkey’s Diyanet and Interfaith Dialogue pp. 1-16

Ihsan Yilmaz and James Barry

Military, Finance, and Economy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Directorate-General of Hedjaz and Military Railways and Ports, 1914–1919 pp. 17-28

Erol Ülker

An Odd ‘Foreign Policy Couple’? Syria and Saudi Arabia 1970-1989 pp. 29-46

Francesco Belcastro

The Kurdish Movement and the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria: An Alternative to the (Nation-)State Model? pp. 47-67

Pinar Dinc

Emergence of the Anti-Kemalist Movement in the South Marmara: Governor of Izmit Çule Ibrahim Hakkı Bey and the Circassian Congress pp. 68-83

Caner Yelbaşı

From Challenged Statehood to Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Defence Reform in Montenegro pp. 84-102

Danijela Dudley

Playing with Fire: An Assessment of the EU’s Approach of Constructive Ambiguity on Kosovo’s Blended Conflict pp. 103-120

Argyro Kartsonaki

Life-Stories of Labour Migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Balkanist Discourse(s), Liminality and Integration pp. 121-137

Dalibor Savić, Anđela Pepić and Duško Trninić

The Gezi Park Protests and the Escalation and De-Escalation of Political Contention pp. 138-155

Tijen Demirel-Pegg

Washington Post Scribe Orientalizes Afghanistan pp. 156-174

Farooq Sulehria

Peasantry in a Well-protected Domain: Wallachian Peasantry and Muslim Çiftlik/Kışlaks under the Ottoman Rule pp. 175-190

Aysel Yıldız and İrfan Kokdaş