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Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East

Geopolitics, Ideology, and Strategy

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Editors:
  1. Murat Yeşiltaş

    1. Sakarya University, Adapazarı, Turkey

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  2. Tuncay Kardaş

    1. Sakarya University, Adapazarı, Turkey

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  • Offers a detailed analysis of the organizational, ideological, and strategic preferences of key new violent non-state actors in the Middle East
  • Employs new analytical perspectives in understanding the radical transformation of the new Middle Eastern geopolitical and security space
  • Analyzes the impact of violent non-state actors on the wider international society of states and international norms
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: The Phenomenon of Non-state Armed Actors and Patterns of Violent Geopolitics in the Middle East

      • Murat Yeşiltaş, Tuncay Kardaş
      Pages 3-20

    3. The Transformation of the Regional Order and Non-state Armed Actors: Pathways to the Empowerment

      • Şaban Kardaş
      Pages 21-39

  4. The Rise of Sacred Political Space in the Middle East

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Path to Become a State: From Jama’at Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad to the Islamic State

      • Ömer Behram Özdemir, Recep Tayyip Gürler
      Pages 121-146

    3. The New Middle East, ISIL and the 6th Revolt Against the West

      • Murat Yeşiltaş, Tuncay Kardaş
      Pages 147-167

    4. An Influential Non-state Armed Actor in the Iraqi Context: Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi and the Implications of its Rising Influence

      • Bilgay Duman, Göktuğ Sönmez
      Pages 169-187

  5. New Methods in Old Bottles: The Strategy of Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Operationalizing the Vision of Building a New Caliphate: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (IS)

      • Farhad Rezaei
      Pages 191-211

    3. The Making of European Foreign Fighters: Identity, Social Media and Virtual Radicalization

      • Tuncay Kardaş, Ömer Behram Özdemir
      Pages 213-235

    4. What the ISIS Crisis Means for the Future of the Middle East

      • Burak Kadercan
      Pages 237-260

    5. Conclusion: The State of the Non-state Armed Actors in the Middle East

      • Murat Yeşiltaş, Tuncay Kardaş
      Pages 261-267

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 269-278
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About this book

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insights into the impact of three prominent actors, namely ISIS, YPG and Shia Militias. With its distinctive detailed and multi-faceted analyses, it offers new findings on the changing contours of sovereignty, geopolitics and ideology, particularly after the Arab Uprisings. Overall this volume contributes to the study of violent geopolitics, critical security studies and international relations particularly by exploring the ideologies and strategies of the new non-state armed actors.

Reviews

“Non-state armed actors have shattered state territorial orders across the Middle East. This book examines the beliefs and strategies of these new territorial brokers and how they are re-making geopolitics, and bio-politics, from below across the region. It is compelling reading.” (Gerard Toal, Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA and author of Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest for Ukraine and the Caucasus)

“Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş have produced an excellent analysis of the rise of non-state actors. Very few works have the same level of solid scholarship and deep, comparative insights into the phenomenon.” (Omar Ashour, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK and author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements)

“In tracing out both the ideological origins and political implications of their seemingly inexorable capacity to garner power following the so-called Arab Spring, this book makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary debates on sovereignty, social order and geo-politics. Up-to-date, well-written and relevant, it will be a key resource for anyone wishing to navigate their way through the complexities and dynamics of the contemporary Middle East.” (Tim Jacoby, Professor, University of Manchester, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sakarya University, Adapazarı, Turkey

    Murat Yeşiltaş, Tuncay Kardaş

About the editors

Murat Yeşiltaş is Associate Professor in the Middle East Institute of Sakarya University, Turkey.


Tuncay Kardaş is Associate Professor in the Middle East Institute of Sakarya University, Turkey.


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