Middle East Conflicts Today: Between Religion and Geopolitics

Religion and Geopolitics in the New World

Conflicts in the Middle East and the Performance and Future of D8 Group

About 20 years ago Necmettin Erbakan, the former Turkish Prime Minister, introduced his idea about theAbout 20 years ago Necmettin Erbakan, the former Turkish Prime Minister, introduced his idea about the establishing of an Islamic group of developing countries, with a large Muslim population and a high economic potential, to cooperate in economic and trade activities. . Using the shift share t...

Recent Developments in Geopolitics of Energy and their Effects on the Political and Economic Future of the Middle East Countries

Energy has always been of particular importance to humanity. Oil and gas have been some of the energies that greatly influenced the national security of countries, which produce and consume energy. With the transformation of geostrategic discourse into geo-economic discourse in recent decades and the key role of economics in global relations, oil as the basis of modern industry has enjoyed a hi...

Religious Affinities and International Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East and Beyond

This study examines the influence of religion on the extent of intervention in ethnic conflict using data from the Minorities at Risk ~MAR! dataset. Key questions include whether ethnoreligious minorities—which are defined here as ethnic minorities who belong to a different religion or a different denomination of the same religion as the majority group in a state—attract more intervention and w...

Communicable ophthalmia: the blinding scourge of the Middle East. Yesterday, today and ? tommorrow.

Blinding and non-blinding trachoma A year ago we introduced the concept that, from the public health point of view, trachoma should be divided into blinding trachoma and non-blinding trachoma (Jones, I975). This concept has found a ready acceptance (Dawson, Jones, and Darougar, 1975) and has been of value in focusing attention on the urgent need for surveys in many countries to determine the pr...