Middle East

  • The Limits of Comparison: Hamas-Hezbollah and the Politics of Disarmament

    The near-simultaneous US-led campaigns to disarm Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have fostered a prevailing analytical assumption: that Hamas is either currently following or is expected to follow Hezbollah’s trajectory of maintaining an armed wing within a negotiated political framework. Resolution 2803 (November 2025) authorised an international force to oversee Gaza’s demilitarisation, Trump’s…

  • 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…

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