Mediterranean Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Mediterranean Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling violence and instability North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling violence23
Civil society’s development in Tunisia’s democratization process, 2011-202111
How does public weeping affect public approval rate of a politician?11
The social contention over a new labour law in post- 2014 Egypt: Understanding regime choices and strategies10
Budget politics and democratization in Tunisia: The loss of consensus and the erosion of trust8
The 2021 Portuguese Presidential Elections under extraordinary circumstances: Covid-19 and the rise of the radical right in Portugal8
State, society and Islam in the Western regions of the Sahara: Regional interactions and social change State, society and Islam in the Western regions of the Sahara: Regional interactio7
The Arab spring Abroad: diaspora activism against authoritarian regimes The Arab spring Abroad: diaspora activism against authoritarian regimes , by Dana M. Moss, Cambri6
Cleft capitalism: The social origins of failed market making in Egypt6
‘De Mistura ideas to reality are like windmills to Don Quixote’: A UN mediator in the Syrian conflict5
UN mediators in Syria: The challenges and responsibilities of conflict resolution5
Pandemic scepticism as politically driven talk: The case of Palestinian context4
Iranians as real estate purchasers and international students: Transformation of Turkish-Iranian migration corridor4
Programmatic change in Southern European radical left parties: The impact of a decade of crises (2010–2019)4
Security assistance to surrogates – how the UAE secures its regional objectives4
Complex effects of international relations4
Seeing the future through a rear-view mirror: On the politics of revitalizing secular bio-icons in the Middle East4
Crisis and transformation in post-Bouteflika Algeria4
Obstáculos y retos estructurales en la España constitucional ¿Otra España es posible?3
The making of rivals and strange bedfellows: Patterns of Turkish and Russian security assistance in the Syrian and Libyan civil wars3
Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon3
Correction3
Trajectories of depoliticization and re-politicization: Petitioning to Moroccan municipalities3
Clientelism and its discontents: The role of wasta in shaping political attitudes and participation in Jordan3
Understanding change in Egypt’s social contract since 20113
Post-Salafism in Cambodia: From counterreligion to accommodation3
Intermediary organizations, international cooperation and the changing social contract: Morocco’s new development model3
Post-salafism by learning: The indigenization of globalized, exclusivist Salafism in Tunisia and Morocco3
Rethinking Egypt’s ‘Failed’ Desert Cities: Autocracy, Urban Planning, and Class Politics in Sadat’s New Town Programme3
The European Green Deal: Implications for Turkey2
Fear of surveillance: Examining Turkish social media users’ perception of surveillance and willingness to express opinions on social media2
Electoral engineering in autocracies: Effects of the 2021 electoral reform on Morocco’s parliamentary elections2
Secular power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign policy Secular power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign policy , by Sarah Wolff, Ann Arbor, University of Michig2
Populism and crisis: Evidence from the periphery of Europe2
Delta democracy: Pathways to incremental civic revolution in Egypt and beyond Delta democracy: Pathways to incremental civic revolution in Egypt and beyond , by Catherin2
Neoliberal citizenship: Sacred markets, sacrificial lives Neoliberal citizenship: Sacred markets, sacrificial lives , by Mavelli Luca, Oxford and New York, Oxford Univer2
The fourth ordeal: A history of the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, 1968-2018 The fourth ordeal: A history of the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, 1968-2018 , by Victor Willi, 2
International actors as critics of domestic freedoms: the role of expertise and benefits2
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of power and dissent2
Russia Rising: Putin’s foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa Russia Rising: Putin’s foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa , by Bechev, Dimitar,2
A theory of gender’s effect on vote shift with a test based on Turkish elections2
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and contention in an authoritarian regime Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and contention in an authoritarian regime , by Wolf, Anne, Oxford, United Kin2
Visas and mobility: The EU’s ‘great shutdown’ that won’t stop population flows2
The ambivalent ‘emotional legacies’ of the 2011 Egyptian and Syrian revolutions1
What explains the resilience of Muslim Brotherhood movements? An analysis of Hamas’ organizing strategies1
Books for Review1
The intercommunal relations in Cyprus during the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards a fait accompli policy?1
Stability and the Lebanese State in the 20th Century: Building Political Legitimacy1
Shifting paradigms: Social protection vs. social policy in Lebanon1
The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices1
The EU, NATO and the Libya conflict: Anatomy of a failure1
Israeli cross-border assistance to Syrians: Creating bonds by giving?1
Catalysts of change: Unveiling the nexus between protest movements and party politics in the Mediterranean1
Towards an exclusionary social contract: Narratives of a revanchist city in (post)war Syria1
Grasping Arab Islamist responses to the war on Gaza1
Civil society, insecurity and Arab support for normalization with Israel: Contextualizing the Abraham Accords1
The unfinished Arab Spring: Micro-dynamics of revolts between change and continuity1
Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins1
Populists and diplomats: Negotiated agency of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs1
Making sense of the revolutions in the present temporalities, emotions, and the quest for dignity1
Jordanian Islamists and the war on Gaza1
Role dynamics and trust in France-China coopetition1
The politics of sea migrants in Southern Europe: Public attitudes and policy implications1
North Africa, Colonialism and the EU North Africa, Colonialism and the EU , by Volkan İpek, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 122 pp., £ 49.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9781
War and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa1
Disaggregating Jordan’s Syrian refugee response: The ‘Many Hands’ of the Jordanian state1
The ‘Moroccogate’ scandal and European Parliament decision-making on Western Sahara1
Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework1
Captagon and conflict: Drugs and war on the border between Jordan and Syria1
Understanding Greece’s new foreign policy towards the Arab world: Instrumentalisation, balancing, and emerging opportunities1
Cultural diplomacy and the reconfiguration of soft power: Evidence from Morocco1
The autocratic parliament: Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-20111
‘The politics of art: Dissent and cultural diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan’0
A Crowded Room? The Destabilising Effect of Oversized Coalitions on Cabinet Survival in Southern Europe0
Post-Salafism: From global to local Salafism0
The limits of China’s engagement in the Mediterranean: Role conflict and emerging mistrust in Spain–China relations0
Iran’s soft power in Syria after the Syrian civil war0
Salafism and dialectics of Muslim identity in Nigeria and the Sahel0
Exploring the Voices of theRif Hirakactivism: The struggle for democracy in Morocco0
Performing (against) the state0
China in the Mediterranean: An Arena of Strategic Competition?0
Salafism, neo-salafism, and post-salafism. Evolutions of a radical current of Islam in France0
(Re)ordering the Mediterranean: The evolution of security assistance as an international practice0
Community policing in areas of limited statehood: The case of Lebanon0
Who defines moderation? Adapting Islamist and Salafi identities in Tunisia to a changing religio-political field0
Who votes after a coup? Theory and evidence from Egypt0
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat: Countering global alarmism0
The intimate politics of silence. Left-wing politicizations in Ben Ali’s Tunisia0
Hot contention, cool abstention: Positive emotions and protest behavior during the Arab spring Hot contention, cool abstention: Positive emotions and protest behavior during the Arab sp0
A quarter-century of studying Euro-Mediterranean relations: A systematic literature review0
Reframing coercive engineered migration theory: Ceuta and the Western Sahara0
No roadmap, no global vision: Shortcomings and pitfalls of the first stage of decentralization reforms in Tunisia0
How information warfare shaped the Arab Spring. The politics of narrative in Tunisia and Egypt0
Party digitalization and members’ empowerment: A comparison of four Italian parties0
Spiking up anger, nostalgia and disgust: The polarized dynamics of Turkish women’s volleyball0
Unravelling anti-feminist social network in Turkey: An Analysis of Actors, relationships and political influence0
Exploring the impacts of conspiracy theories on election dynamics in Spain and Turkey0
Understanding the persistence of competitive authoritarianism in algeria Understanding the persistence of competitive authoritarianism in algeria , Dalia Ghanem, Palgrav0
Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 , by Ali Çarkoğlu and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Ann Ar0
Turkey, the EU, and the Middle East: Foreign policy cooperation and the Arab uprisings0
Externalising migration governance through civil society. Tunisia as a case study0
Women reporters as experts on security affairs in Jordan? Rethinking gender and issue competency stereotypes0
Medical aid under the shadow of the Covid-19: A political crisis among the leadership in North Cyprus0
Taxing the rich but not the capitalists: Direct taxation in Sisi’s Egypt (2014-2021)0
Mobilizing for what? Polarized citizens and electoral turnout in transitioning Tunisia0
Moving towards smarter social contracts? Digital transformation as a driver of change in state–society relations in the MENA region0
Political narratives in the Middle East and North Africa. Conceptions of order and perceptions of instability0
Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World , by Philippe Droz-Vincent,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021,0
Introducing the comparative study of electoral systems in Tunisia: populist attitudes, political preferences, and voting behavior0
China’s infrastructure diplomacy in the Mediterranean region under the Belt And Road Initiative: Challenges ahead?0
Militant Islamism in Lebanon and the War on Gaza0
Populism, religion and family values policies in Israel, Italy and Turkey0
The origin of secular institutions: Ideas, timing, and organization The origin of secular institutions: Ideas, timing, and organization , by H. Zeynep Bulutigil, New Yor0
The continuation of criminalization by other means: the role of judicial agency in the Italian policing of humanitarian assistance at sea0
Measuring ‘state-diffusion’ in post-conflict authoritarian Syria evidence from the 2021 public opinion survey0
After repression: How polarization derails democratic transition After repression: How polarization derails democratic transition , by Elizabeth Nugent, Princeton, Princ0
Popular support for military intervention and anti-establishment alternatives in Tunisia: Appraising outsider eclecticism0
Reaching for the heights: The inside story of a secret attempt to reach an Israeli-Syrian peace Reaching for the heights: The inside story of a secret attempt to reach an Israeli-Syrian0
Security assistance, securitization, security systems, and insecurity in the Mediterranean mashriq and maghreb0
Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings0
“Always they look at you as a stranger”: affective encounters with the border among irregularised African migrants in Israel0
Nationhood cleavages and ethnic conflict: A comparative analysis of postcommunist Bulgaria, Montenegro, and North Macedonia0
Strategic misalignment: European security and P/CVE engagement in the Sahel0
Urban resilience and migration governance in Tunisia’s unstable political environment0
Critical junctures, labour unions, and social dialogue in Tunisia and Lebanon: Implications for the social contract0
Supporting a revolution from afar: The construction of unity between generations of Sudanese exiles in France0
Towards a non-Western model of security assistance: How Iran assists militaries0
Still on the same path? Italian foreign and defence policy in the Enlarged Mediterranean0
EU delegations as intermediaries of perceptions of the EU: A view from the MENA region0
Democracy in Lebanon: Political parties and the struggle for power since Syrian withdrawal0
China in the Southern Mediterranean: Integrating the Greater Maghreb in the new silk road0
Yemen’s Islamists and the War in Gaza: The interplay of ideology, context, and strategy0
Labor politics in North Africa: After the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia Labor politics in North Africa: After the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia , by Ian M. Hartshorn, 0
Bounded knowledge: doctoral studies in Egypt Bounded knowledge: doctoral studies in Egypt , edited by Daniele Cantini, Cairo, Egypt, AUC Press, 2021, 228 pp., GBP 80 (ha0
The war on Gaza and Iraq’s resistance state0
New horizons or old barriers? The 2023 EU anti-smuggling directive proposal and human mobility in the Mediterranean0
Resistance and Military Defection in Turkey0
Trump sympathy in the Balkans: cross-border populist appeal0
Multilateral financial flows and state–business relations in Morocco0
EU democracy projection: Does the EU practice what it preaches?0
Religion, identity, and power: Turkey and the Balkans in the twenty-first century0
The bidirectional relationship between social contracts and entrepreneurship: Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Kurdistan Region of Iraq0
Friends or foe: Militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War Friends or foe: Militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War , b0
On the scarcity and promise of survey-based studies of international relations and security affairs in the Middle East0
Outsourcing warfare in the Mediterranean0
Faith in numbers: Religion, sectarianism, and democracy0
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A global and historical comparison Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A global and historical comparison , by 0
The use of intersectional tactics by Tunisia’s multicultural movement to build social capital and sustain collective action: It is not what we say or think that defines us but what we do0
Israel, Gaza and the Politics of Palliative Peace: Colonialism, (de)mobilization and why the Two-State Solution is made to Fail0
Bad mothers vs good mothers of the nation: The dual faces of Tunisian women in terrorism and in preventing extremism0
Bridging the gap: The ‘revolutionary’ strategy of the Strong Egypt Party as a new attempt towards overcoming the secular/Islamist cleavage0
‘Quietist’ Salafis after the ‘Arab revolts’ in Algeria and Libya (2011–2019): Between insecurity and political subordination0
The 2023 Spanish general elections and the fourth Sánchez cabinet: A successful gamble for the left?0
Competing visions for the EU’s southern strategy: Restraint, preventative engagement, and selective intervention0
The use of the Macedonian name dispute on the candidates’ websites in Northern Greece’s regional and municipal elections of 20190
Migration, agriculture and rural development0
The EU in motion through emotions: Fear and migration policy in the Euro-Mediterranean context0
Islamist populism? Exploring the MENA region from a comparative and empirical perspective0
The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council: Towards a New Path The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council: Towards a New Path , edited by Adel Abdel Gh0
Visual frame analysis of the UKIP leave campaigns ‘Turkish migrant’ Brexit visuals0
Disposable rebels: US military assistance to insurgents in the Syrian war0
Opposition inclusion and exclusion in the Arab world: Evidence from a new dataset0
Salafis’ hybrid trajectories of socio-political engagement in Tunisia and Algeria. A social movement perspective0
Losing support to democracy: Political socialization, popular conceptualizations, and the formation of political grievances among marginalized youth in Tunisia0
Schooling the nation: Education and everyday politics in Egypt0
Changing focus while maintaining balance: Strategic adjustments behind the developing Sino-Saudi relations0
Stability source or curse? Fossil fuels and Algeria’s regime stability in the light of EU’s green transition0
Populist securitization of migration: The anti-immigrant Zafer Party example in Türkiye0
Between strategic neglect and geopolitical realities: Ukraine and North Africa in Light of Russian Aggression0
Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization0
The war in Gaza, the decline of US leadership and the emergence of a networked regional order0
Spatial clustering of fighting during civil wars: insights from Syria0
Morocco’s dual realist and neoliberalism foreign policy: An examination of Morocco’s decision to strengthen ties with Israel, 2009–20230
China and Egypt’s comprehensive strategic partnership in the Xi-sisi era: a ‘role theory’ prism0
Remembering the Midan : Nostalgia and propaganda in Egyptian media and popular culture0
Sovereignty suspended building the so-called state0
Egypt: A fragile power Egypt: A fragile power , by Eberhard Kienle, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, 228 pp., USD 42.70 (ebook), ISBN: 97804298054170
Armenians beyond diaspora: Making Lebanon their own Armenians beyond diaspora: Making Lebanon their own , by Tsolin Nalbantian, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 200
Turkey’s 2024 municipal elections. A turning point for democratic resilience?0
Syrian Jihadis’ reaction to the Gaza conflict0
The revolution within: State institutions and unarmed resistance in Palestine0
Which protests count? Coverage bias in Middle East event datasets0
Hezbollah: A regional armed non-state actor (Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics) Hezbollah: A regional armed non-state actor (Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics)0
Introduction: Socioeconomic reforms in times of political transformation: Conflicts over the political economy in Egypt and Tunisia post-20110
Minister vs. Mufti the struggle over ‘moderate Islam’ in wartime Syria (2011–2021)0
The European Green Deal: Challenges and opportunities for the Southern Mediterranean0
Diaspora diplomacy: The politics of Turkish emigration to Europe Diaspora diplomacy: The politics of Turkish emigration to Europe , by0
The international sources of prejudice against Shi‘a in the Middle East and North Africa: Original survey evidence from Morocco0
Campaigning for the revolution: Freedom, social justice and citizenship imaginaries in the Egyptian Uprising0
European neighbourhood policy, the Bologna model and EU-Egyptian cooperation in Higher Education0
The oil factor: Regulatory agency creation in the MENA region0
Salafism and the local: Negotiation, accommodation and Re-localization of Ethiopian Salafism0
Revolutionary burnout: Subjective crisis responses and the demobilization of mass protest in Lebanon0
Connecting security with sustainable development in the Eastern Mediterranean and generating pay-offs for the European Union0
The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition0
Qatar’s evolving role in conflict mediation0
Interpreting Europe: Sonic politics and the affective foundation of multilingual negotiations0
The illusion of sovereignty in the TRNC: The AKP regime in Turkey and changing dynamics in the de facto state in Cyprus0
The external dimension of Italian migration policy in the wider Mediterranean0
Extreme hardship, care ethics, and humanitarian protection: Lessons from Libya and Italy0
China’s expanding footprint in North Africa and the European Union’s geopolitical awakening0
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