1. Political ideology and foreign policy decision-making in the Middle East and North Africa: an operational code approach; 2. Political Islam and Sunni ideology: Muslim Brotherhood leadership; 3. Political Islam and Shia ideology: Iranian and Iraqi leadership; 4. Secularist leaders in the Levant: Syrian, Israeli and Lebanese leadership; 5. Armed non-state actors' foreign policy: PKK, PYD, Hezbollah, and ISIS leaders in the Middle East and North Africa; 6. Leaders, foreign policy decision-making, and international relations; 7. Policy implications and future research; References; Index.
Analyses the psychology of fourteen modern leaders across the political spectrum to reconsider politics in the MENA region.
Özgür Özdamar is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. From 2019-2020, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. He currently serves as Director of Research at the Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Studies of Bilkent University. He has previously published two books, An Expected Utility Approach to Energy Security in Eurasia (2017) and Role Theory in the MENA (co-authored, 2019). Sercan Canbolat is a Fulbright PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Connecticut. His work has been published in International Studies Review, Political Research Quarterly, Polity and Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. For his well-received scholarly works, he was awarded the 2018 Polity Prize by the Northeastern Political Science Association and the 2020 and 2021 Margaret G. Hermann Awards by the International Studies Association.
'This book bears all the hallmarks of an instant classic. To what
extent are the foreign policies of MENA nations influenced by the
personalities and personal beliefs of their leaders? The authors
answer that question with a wide-ranging operational code analysis
of historical and contemporary MENA leaders. This volume will be of
immense interest to scholars and foreign policymakers alike.'
Valerie Hudson, Texas A&M University
'This is a breakthrough in the study of leadership in the Middle
East and North Africa. Operational code analysis is applied to gain
insights into how political Islam and other factors shape foreign
policy. The book is essential reading for scholars of MENA and
international relations in general.' Patrick James, University of
Southern California
'This book is an excellent example of how combining foreign policy
analysis with regional expertise sharpens the analysis of
international relations. Özdamar and Canbolat put leaders front and
centre to make significant contributions to our understanding of
the dynamics in the region and to multiple areas of scholarship.'
Julie Kaarbo, University of Edinburgh
'The authors of this pathbreaking volume show how key operational
code beliefs regarding the exercise of power vary across MENA
leaders with the same ideology and between groups with different
ideologies to account for their distinct foreign policy decisions
and approaches to important regional and global issues in world
politics.' Stephen G. Walker, Arizona State University
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
