Middle East

  • The New Grammar of Repression: Reading Contemporary Authoritarianism through Baloch Movement in Pakistan

    When a state confronts political dissent, the response often reveals more about its character than its constitutional promises. Pakistan’s treatment of the Baloch movement offers a particularly revealing example of how contemporary states manage political opposition. Should one judge a state by the democratic values it proclaims, or by the practices through which it governs?…

  • Review of Zeynep Özgen’s Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamic Movement in Turkey

    The book “Pious Politics” by Zeynep Özgen discusses the rise of the Islamist movement through a popular and well-organised development in Turkey over decades that rallied the masses, built vigorous political parties, and pressed for legislative reform. But an equally formative – if not more significant – cultural factor was the groundwork Islamists laid through…

  • Strategic Transactionalism: Russia’s Post-Assad Playbook in the Middle East

    For most of 2025, Western capitals perceived that Russia’s position in the Middle East was in terminal decline. The fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 undermined Moscow’s policy in the Levant. Furthermore, under Israel’s offensive war against the Kremlin, which the grinding war in Ukraine had already absorbed, it seemed to have neither the…

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