1. Introduction
2. ‘A Fantasy Brought to Life’ : Revisiting Neo-Ottomanism in Yeni Turkiye
Anita Sengupta
3. Trajectories of a Stalemate: Turkey’s Kurdish Question
Necati Anaz and Mehmet Ozkan
4. The Lebanese Revolution and Hizbullah’s Shi‘i Axis of Resistance
Joseph Alagha
5. Imperial Storm Troopers and the Return of the Mahdi: A Historical Perspective of the Israeli-Iranian Struggle
Nir Boms and Stéphane Cohen
6. Saudi Arabia: Navigating a Perilous Regional and International Politics
Muddassir Quamar
7. Safeguarding the Islamic Republic: Structural Factors and Generational Shift Shaping Tehran’s Foreign Policy
Kingshuk Chatterjee
8. From Proactive to Reactive Shift in American Middle East Strategy
Binoda K. Mishra
9. The Return of the Prodigal: The Lengthening Shadow of Russia in the Middle East
Hari Sankar Vasudevan and Kingshuk Chatterjee
10. China, Iran and West Asia: Civilisational Co-operation in the Twenty-first Century
Jigme Yeshe Lama
11. The Unstable Middle East and India’s Options
Anil Trigunayat
Index
1. Introduction
2. ‘A Fantasy Brought to Life’ : Revisiting Neo-Ottomanism in Yeni Turkiye
Anita Sengupta
3. Trajectories of a Stalemate: Turkey’s Kurdish Question
Necati Anaz and Mehmet Ozkan
4. The Lebanese Revolution and Hizbullah’s Shi‘i Axis of Resistance
Joseph Alagha
5. Imperial Storm Troopers and the Return of the Mahdi: A Historical Perspective of the Israeli-Iranian Struggle
Nir Boms and Stéphane Cohen
6. Saudi Arabia: Navigating a Perilous Regional and International Politics
Muddassir Quamar
7. Safeguarding the Islamic Republic: Structural Factors and Generational Shift Shaping Tehran’s Foreign Policy
Kingshuk Chatterjee
8. From Proactive to Reactive Shift in American Middle East Strategy
Binoda K. Mishra
9. The Return of the Prodigal: The Lengthening Shadow of Russia in the Middle East
Hari Sankar Vasudevan and Kingshuk Chatterjee
10. China, Iran and West Asia: Civilisational Co-operation in the Twenty-first Century
Jigme Yeshe Lama
11. The Unstable Middle East and India’s Options
Anil Trigunayat
Index
Biography
Kingshuk Chatterjee is Professor in the Department of History, Calcutta University. Chatterjee’s area of expertise is in Middle Eastern politics and he specialises in Political Islam in the Modern World. He is the author of Ali Shari’ati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran and A Split in the Middle: the Making of the Political Centre in Iran (1987-2004).
