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Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
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Ewolucja tureckiej polityki bezpieczeństwa [PDF]

Przegląd Geopolityczny, 2023
The purpose of this article is to elucidate the changes in the security policy of the Turkish Republic, brought about by both internal factors due to the peculiarities of the state (e.g., the ethnic structure of the population) and external factors ...
Magdalena Kumelska-Koniecko
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Effect of Federalism on Ethnic Conflicts: Case Study Iraq [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2017
Variety of ethnic groups, different languages and cultural differences can cause conflicts and ethnic tensions in communities, but the emergence of an ethnic conflict depends on the government's approach in managing these diversity.
مرتضی نورمحمدی
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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Political Islam, Kurds and the West

The Kurdish struggle for self-determination has endured a century of oppression, marked by military attacks, cultural suppression, and environmental devastation.
Said Shams
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Disparity in Regional Development and its effect on Political Culture Trends: Evidence from Iran

Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2021
Seeking to determine the factors driving political cultures onto distinct trajectories, researchers have considered development one of the main causes for emerging new values, which configure political culture trends along with cultural heritage as a ...
Azad Namaki, Mohammad Fazeli, Yaghoub Ahmadi   +2 more
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Three Stages of the Dispersion of the Kurdish Population into Anatolia in the Post-World War II Era [PDF]

Codrul Cosminului
Kurds are a Middle Eastern people dispersed across four countries, i.e. Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. The purpose of this study is to examine the external reasons for the dispersion of the Kurdish population throughout Turkey after World War II.
Musa Yavuz Alptekin
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‘In Curaçao They Celebrate King's Day Abundantly!’ – Diachronic Representation of (Post)colonial Communities in Dutch Geography Textbook Discourse (1946–2018)

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Postcolonial textbook research leads us to reflect on the representation of (post)colonial communities in educational media for adolescents in geography education. This paper contributes to this scholarship through Critical Discourse Analysis tracing how nine Dutch geography textbooks (1946–2018) have represented such communities from ...
Marthe Wierenga, Dietha Koster
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US Influence in Post‐Assad Syria and the Limits of Turkey's Leverage

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Winter 2026.
Abstract In early 2026, the post‐Assad government in Damascus weakened the Kurdish‐led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and began integrating the group through phased incorporation and gradual reassertion of state authority. While this advanced some Turkish objectives, it demonstrated the limits of Ankara's influence: Kurdish fighters were incorporated ...
Barış Çağlar
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