Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New Issue: MIDDLE EAST REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (MERIA) JOURNAL

MIDDLE EAST REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (MERIA) JOURNAL
Volume 15, No. 2 - June 2011, Total Circulation: 30,000

ERGENEKON, SLEDGEHAMMER, AND THE POLITICS OF TURKISH JUSTICE: CONSPIRACIES AND COINCIDENCES
By Gareth Jenkins
Since it was launched in June 2007, the Ergenekon investigation has become the largest and most controversial case in recent Turkish history, resulting in over 300 people being charged with a membership of what is described as a clandestine terrorist organization seeking to destabilize the country’s Islamist government. In the parallel Sledgehammer investigation, 195 members [...]
http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/06/ergenekon-sledgehammer-and-the-politics-of-turkish-justice-conspiracies-and-coincidences/

IRAQ IN CRISIS
By Aymenn Jawad
In the spring of 2011, Iraq witnessed major protests across the country. This article will address the causes of these demonstrations. It will also discuss the obstacles toward forming a stable government and the nature of sectarianism and corruption in the government. Last, it considers the implications for U.S. policy, particularly concerning the December 2011 [...]
http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/06/iraq-in-crisis/

THE EFFECTS OF ELECTORAL DEFEAT AND VICTORY ON INTERNAL POWER STRUGGLES IN THE ISRAELI LIKUD PARTY
By Yaffa Moshkovich
This article describes political changes within the Israeli Likud Party following its defeat in the 1992 elections and its 1996 victory. It explores whether electoral defeat or victory intensified internal power struggles. The findings revealed that defeat destroyed the dominant faction and led to the replacement of the failed leadership. A decrease in power [...]
http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/06/the-effects-of-electoral-defeat-and-victory-on-internal-power-struggles-in-the-israeli-likud-party/

THE MOUNTING PROBLEM OF TEMPLE DENIAL
By David Barnett
Temple Denial is the belief that no Jewish Temple ever existed in Jerusalem. This claim, despite being counter to Islamic tradition, became internalized within Palestinian academic, religious, and political circles following the 1967 Six-Day War. Since the 2000 Camp David Summit, during which Yasir Arafat asserted that the Jewish Temple never existed in Jerusalem, “Temple [...]
http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/06/the-mounting-problem-of-temple-denial/

RADICAL ISLAMISM IN INDONESIA AND ITS MIDDLE EASTERN CONNECTIONS
By Merlyna Lyn
This article offers a three-prong approach to investigating the emergence of contemporary Indonesian radical Islamism in the post-Suharto era (from 1998 onward). First, it places it within the historical context of radical Islamism in Indonesia, its past connection to colonialism, as well as a more contemporary one to Middle Eastern Islamism. Second, it puts [...]
http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/06/radical-islamism-in-indonesia-and-its-middle-eastern-connections/

TRANSNATIONAL ISLAMISM AND ITS IMPACT IN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA
By Mohamed Nawab Bin Mohamed Osman
This article argues that the Islamist resurgence of the 1980s and anti-American sentiments following the events of September 11 have led to the strengthening of political Islamism in both Malaysia and Indonesia. It also discusses the impact of Islamist movements and governments outside of Southeast Asia (i.e., the Middle East) in shaping the political thinking [...]
http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/2011/06/transnational-islamism-and-its-impact-in-malaysia-and-indonesia/

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