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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Post-Salafism in Cambodia: From counterreligion to accommodation30
Complex effects of international relations15
Rallying around the mosque or flag: The effects of morality and security agenda setting on political performance in Turkey11
Small states, neutrality, and regional security: Malta’s exceptional role in the Mediterranean10
Europe as promise and problem: Interdependent ambivalence in Israeli public discourse8
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 violence7
How does public weeping affect public approval rate of a politician?7
The unfinished Arab Spring: Micro-dynamics of revolts between change and continuity6
Populists and diplomats: Negotiated agency of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs6
Civil society, insecurity and Arab support for normalization with Israel: Contextualizing the Abraham Accords6
Israel’s 12-day war on Iran and the Russian fighter jet exports: A geopolitical analysis5
The ‘Moroccogate’ scandal and European Parliament decision-making on Western Sahara5
Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins5
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,5
Neoliberal citizenship: Sacred markets, sacrificial lives5
Correction4
Visual frame analysis of the UKIP leave campaigns ‘Turkish migrant’ Brexit visuals4
Faith in numbers: Religion, sectarianism, and democracy4
The continuation of criminalization by other means: the role of judicial agency in the Italian policing of humanitarian assistance at sea4
Supporting a revolution from afar: The construction of unity between generations of Sudanese exiles in France4
Electoral engineering in autocracies: Effects of the 2021 electoral reform on Morocco’s parliamentary elections4
Introducing the comparative study of electoral systems in Tunisia: populist attitudes, political preferences, and voting behavior4
European neighbourhood policy, the Bologna model and EU-Egyptian cooperation in Higher Education4
Islam and nationalism in modern Greece, 1821—19403
“Always they look at you as a stranger”: affective encounters with the border among irregularised African migrants in Israel3
The bidirectional relationship between social contracts and entrepreneurship: Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Kurdistan Region of Iraq3
Interpreting Europe: Sonic politics and the affective foundation of multilingual negotiations3
Guardianship and democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary consolidation, popular contestation3
China and Egypt’s comprehensive strategic partnership in the Xi-sisi era: a ‘role theory’ prism3
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat: Countering global alarmism2
Egypt: A fragile power Egypt: A fragile power , by Eberhard Kienle, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, 228 pp., USD 42.70 (ebook), ISBN: 97804298054172
Reframing coercive engineered migration theory: Ceuta and the Western Sahara2
Revolutionary burnout: Subjective crisis responses and the demobilization of mass protest in Lebanon2
Role dynamics and trust in France-China coopetition2
When does the opposition unite? An examination of Lebanon’s 2022 parliamentary election2
Jordanian Islamists and the war on Gaza2
The end of Jihadi Salafism? The religious governance of HTS, the Post-Jihadi rebel ruler in Northern Syria2
Unravelling anti-feminist social network in Turkey: An Analysis of Actors, relationships and political influence2
Populism in Israel: Netanyahu and the strategic approach2
Islamist populism? Exploring the MENA region from a comparative and empirical perspective2
The making of rivals and strange bedfellows: Patterns of Turkish and Russian security assistance in the Syrian and Libyan civil wars2
Introduction: Socioeconomic reforms in times of political transformation: Conflicts over the political economy in Egypt and Tunisia post-20112
Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 , by Ali Çarkoğlu and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Ann Ar2
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of power and dissent2
Turkey, the EU, and the Middle East: Foreign policy cooperation and the Arab uprisings2
Performing (against) the state2
Understanding territorial withdrawal: Israeli occupation and exit2
The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition2
Obstáculos y retos estructurales en la España constitucional ¿Otra España es posible?2
The autocratic parliament: Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-20112
Secular power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign policy2
Travelling for security: A study of Israel’s high-level diplomatic visits2
Remembering the Midan : Nostalgia and propaganda in Egyptian media and popular culture1
UN mediators in Syria: The challenges and responsibilities of conflict resolution1
Spatial clustering of fighting during civil wars: insights from Syria1
Rethinking Egypt’s ‘Failed’ Desert Cities: Autocracy, Urban Planning, and Class Politics in Sadat’s New Town Programme1
Still on the same path? Italian foreign and defence policy in the Enlarged Mediterranean1
Changing focus while maintaining balance: Strategic adjustments behind the developing Sino-Saudi relations1
Who defines moderation? Adapting Islamist and Salafi identities in Tunisia to a changing religio-political field1
Yemen’s Islamists and the War in Gaza: The interplay of ideology, context, and strategy1
There and back again: The foreign fighters security threat in the Mediterranean1
A quarter-century of studying Euro-Mediterranean relations: A systematic literature review1
Security assistance, securitization, security systems, and insecurity in the Mediterranean mashriq and maghreb1
The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices1
Security assistance to surrogates – how the UAE secures its regional objectives1
Post-salafism by learning: The indigenization of globalized, exclusivist Salafism in Tunisia and Morocco1
Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa1
Turkey’s relations with Israel: The first sixty two years, 1948–20101
Understanding the persistence of competitive authoritarianism in algeria1
Stability source or curse? Fossil fuels and Algeria’s regime stability in the light of EU’s green transition1
On the scarcity and promise of survey-based studies of international relations and security affairs in the Middle East1
Measuring ‘state-diffusion’ in post-conflict authoritarian Syria evidence from the 2021 public opinion survey1
The limits of China’s engagement in the Mediterranean: Role conflict and emerging mistrust in Spain–China relations1
A theory of gender’s effect on vote shift with a test based on Turkish elections1
Cultural diplomacy and the reconfiguration of soft power: Evidence from Morocco1
State, society and Islam in the Western regions of the Sahara: Regional interactions and social change1
Delta democracy: Pathways to incremental civic revolution in Egypt and beyond Delta democracy: Pathways to incremental civic revolution in Egypt and beyond , by Catherin1
Populist securitization of migration: The anti-immigrant Zafer Party example in Türkiye1
Strategic misalignment: European security and P/CVE engagement in the Sahel1
Critical junctures, labour unions, and social dialogue in Tunisia and Lebanon: Implications for the social contract1
Campaigning for the revolution: Freedom, social justice and citizenship imaginaries in the Egyptian Uprising1
‘The politics of art: Dissent and cultural diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan’1
Budget politics and democratization in Tunisia: The loss of consensus and the erosion of trust1
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 , b1
Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework1
Towards a non-Western model of security assistance: How Iran assists militaries0
The oil factor: Regulatory agency creation in the MENA region0
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 illusion of sovereignty in the TRNC: The AKP regime in Turkey and changing dynamics in the de facto state in Cyprus0
Intermediary organizations, international cooperation and the changing social contract: Morocco’s new development model0
Programmatic change in Southern European radical left parties: The impact of a decade of crises (2010–2019)0
EU delegations as intermediaries of perceptions of the EU: A view from the MENA region0
Captagon and conflict: Drugs and war on the border between Jordan and Syria0
The Arab spring Abroad: diaspora activism against authoritarian regimes The Arab spring Abroad: diaspora activism against authoritarian regimes , by Dana M. Moss, Cambri0
Party digitalization and members’ empowerment: A comparison of four Italian parties0
The 2021 Portuguese Presidential Elections under extraordinary circumstances: Covid-19 and the rise of the radical right in Portugal0
Making sense of the revolutions in the present temporalities, emotions, and the quest for dignity0
Syrian Jihadis’ reaction to the Gaza conflict0
Spiking up anger, nostalgia and disgust: The polarized dynamics of Turkish women’s volleyball0
The intercommunal relations in Cyprus during the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards a fait accompli policy?0
Democracy in Lebanon: Political parties and the struggle for power since Syrian withdrawal0
Militant Islamism in Lebanon and the War on Gaza0
The politics of sea migrants in Southern Europe: Public attitudes and policy implications0
Understanding Greece’s new foreign policy towards the Arab world: Instrumentalisation, balancing, and emerging opportunities0
The war in Gaza, the decline of US leadership and the emergence of a networked regional order0
Making Democracy Safe for Business: Corporate politics during the Arab uprisings0
Exploring the impacts of conspiracy theories on election dynamics in Spain and Turkey0
Dynamic nationalist alignments and Greece’s Golden Dawn: From Islamist admiration to Islamophobia0
Connecting security with sustainable development in the Eastern Mediterranean and generating pay-offs for the European Union0
China in the Mediterranean: An Arena of Strategic Competition?0
Salafism and the local: Negotiation, accommodation and Re-localization of Ethiopian Salafism0
‘The rush for Syria: Sovereignty, patronage, and New-old threats to equitable political participation in post-Assad Syria’0
‘Quietist’ Salafis after the ‘Arab revolts’ in Algeria and Libya (2011–2019): Between insecurity and political subordination0
The European Green Deal: Challenges and opportunities for the Southern Mediterranean0
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
Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings0
Shifting paradigms: Social protection vs. social policy in Lebanon0
Political narratives in the Middle East and North Africa. Conceptions of order and perceptions of instability0
Medical aid under the shadow of the Covid-19: A political crisis among the leadership in North Cyprus0
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
Community policing in areas of limited statehood: The case of Lebanon0
The origin of secular institutions: Ideas, timing, and organization The origin of secular institutions: Ideas, timing, and organization , by H. Zeynep Bulutigil, New Yor0
Multilateral financial flows and state–business relations in Morocco0
Extreme hardship, care ethics, and humanitarian protection: Lessons from Libya and Italy0
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A global and historical comparison Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A global and historical comparison , by 0
Understanding Syrian Migration in Syria Normalisation, Return and Reintegration: The Case of Internally Displaced People in Post-War Reconstruction in Homs0
Turkey’s 2024 municipal elections. A turning point for democratic resilience?0
Egyptian authoritarian resilience, the evolution of the party system and the Nation’s Future Party0
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
Crisis and transformation in post-Bouteflika Algeria0
The 2023 Spanish general elections and the fourth Sánchez cabinet: A successful gamble for the left?0
Pandemic scepticism as politically driven talk: The case of Palestinian context0
The social contention over a new labour law in post- 2014 Egypt: Understanding regime choices and strategies0
Seeing the future through a rear-view mirror: On the politics of revitalizing secular bio-icons in the Middle East0
Stability and the Lebanese State in the 20th Century: Building Political Legitimacy0
The European Green Deal: Implications for Turkey0
Trajectories of depoliticization and re-politicization: Petitioning to Moroccan municipalities0
Grasping Arab Islamist responses to the war on Gaza0
Bad mothers vs good mothers of the nation: The dual faces of Tunisian women in terrorism and in preventing extremism0
Secularization in the minaret’s shadow: Group identity and religious scepticism in Turkey0
Books for Review0
The war on Gaza and Iraq’s resistance state0
Salafis’ hybrid trajectories of socio-political engagement in Tunisia and Algeria. A social movement perspective0
Who votes after a coup? Theory and evidence from Egypt0
Fear of surveillance: Examining Turkish social media users’ perception of surveillance and willingness to express opinions on social media0
The digital ethnonation: Multimodal extreme-right propaganda and national identity on YouTube0
Women reporters as experts on security affairs in Jordan? Rethinking gender and issue competency stereotypes0
The external dimension of Italian migration policy in the wider Mediterranean0
Diaspora diplomacy: The politics of Turkish emigration to Europe Diaspora diplomacy: The politics of Turkish emigration to Europe , by0
After repression: How polarization derails democratic transition After repression: How polarization derails democratic transition , by Elizabeth Nugent, Princeton, Princ0
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and contention in an authoritarian regime0
Understanding change in Egypt’s social contract since 20110
The use of the Macedonian name dispute on the candidates’ websites in Northern Greece’s regional and municipal elections of 20190
The intimate politics of silence. Left-wing politicizations in Ben Ali’s Tunisia0
Salafism and dialectics of Muslim identity in Nigeria and the Sahel0
Schooling the nation: Education and everyday politics in Egypt0
China’s infrastructure diplomacy in the Mediterranean region under the Belt And Road Initiative: Challenges ahead?0
Taxing the rich but not the capitalists: Direct taxation in Sisi’s Egypt (2014-2021)0
Hezbollah: A regional armed non-state actor0
Moving towards smarter social contracts? Digital transformation as a driver of change in state–society relations in the MENA region0
(Re)ordering the Mediterranean: The evolution of security assistance as an international practice0
Between strategic neglect and geopolitical realities: Ukraine and North Africa in Light of Russian Aggression0
A Crowded Room? The Destabilising Effect of Oversized Coalitions on Cabinet Survival in Southern Europe0
Morocco’s dual realist and neoliberalism foreign policy: An examination of Morocco’s decision to strengthen ties with Israel, 2009–20230
From Yiwu to Hebron: China and the changing dynamics of Palestinian trade in the West Bank0
China in the Southern Mediterranean: Integrating the Greater Maghreb in the new silk road0
Religion, identity, and power: Turkey and the Balkans in the twenty-first century0
Living, remembering, and enduring revolutionary times: Insights from the Mediterranean0
How Lebanon’s security sector works amidst state collapse0
Iranians as real estate purchasers and international students: Transformation of Turkish-Iranian migration corridor0
Civil society’s development in Tunisia’s democratization process, 2011-20210
The EU in motion through emotions: Fear and migration policy in the Euro-Mediterranean context0
Israel, Gaza and the Politics of Palliative Peace: Colonialism, (de)mobilization and why the Two-State Solution is made to Fail0
Clientelism and its discontents: The role of wasta in shaping political attitudes and participation in Jordan0
‘De Mistura ideas to reality are like windmills to Don Quixote’: A UN mediator in the Syrian conflict0
The EU, NATO and the Libya conflict: Anatomy of a failure0
The echoes of defeat: Resentment in post-revolutionary Egypt0
Visas and mobility: The EU’s ‘great shutdown’ that won’t stop population flows0
Catalysts of change: Unveiling the nexus between protest movements and party politics in the Mediterranean0
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 9780
Populism and crisis: Evidence from the periphery of Europe0
Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon0
Towards an exclusionary social contract: Narratives of a revanchist city in (post)war Syria0
Mirages of reform: The politics of elite protectionism in the Arab World0
Salafism, neo-salafism, and post-salafism. Evolutions of a radical current of Islam in France0
The ambivalent ‘emotional legacies’ of the 2011 Egyptian and Syrian revolutions0
Post-Salafism: From global to local Salafism0
Mobilizing for what? Polarized citizens and electoral turnout in transitioning Tunisia0
Qatar’s evolving role in conflict mediation0
Urban resilience and migration governance in Tunisia’s unstable political environment0
Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization0
Opposition inclusion and exclusion in the Arab world: Evidence from a new dataset0
Minister vs. Mufti the struggle over ‘moderate Islam’ in wartime Syria (2011–2021)0
China’s expanding footprint in North Africa and the European Union’s geopolitical awakening0
Losing support to democracy: Political socialization, popular conceptualizations, and the formation of political grievances among marginalized youth in Tunisia0
Disposable rebels: US military assistance to insurgents in the Syrian war0
The New Pact on Migration and Asylum in a shifting political context: Depoliticization and repoliticization in EU external migration policy0
Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World , by Philippe Droz-Vincent,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021,0
The solar energy market and the transformation of patron-client relations in Lebanon0
Bridging the gap: The ‘revolutionary’ strategy of the Strong Egypt Party as a new attempt towards overcoming the secular/Islamist cleavage0
No roadmap, no global vision: Shortcomings and pitfalls of the first stage of decentralization reforms in Tunisia0
New horizons or old barriers? The 2023 EU anti-smuggling directive proposal and human mobility in the Mediterranean0
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