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New horizons or old barriers? The 2023 EU anti-smuggling directive proposal and human mobility in the Mediterranean
Federico Alagna, Gabriella Sanchez & Luigi Achilli
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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Who defines moderation? Adapting Islamist and Salafi identities in Tunisia to a changing religio-political field
Helen L. Murphey
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Civil society’s development in Tunisia’s democratization process, 2011-2021
Sabina Henneberg
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Neoliberal citizenship: Sacred markets, sacrificial lives
by Mavelli Luca, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., GBP 81.00 (hard cover) ISBN: 9780192857583
Erin K. Wilson
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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Hezbollah: A regional armed non-state actor (Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics)
by Hadi Wahab, London, Routledge June 19, 2022, 208 pp., $170, (Hardcover) ISBN ‎ 978-1032215273
Abbas Assi
Published online: 30 May 2024
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Book Review
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and contention in an authoritarian regime
by Wolf, Anne, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2023, 250 pp., 103.17 € (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-286850-3
Konstantinos Theocharopoulos
Published online: 30 May 2024
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The war in Gaza, the decline of US leadership and the emergence of a networked regional order
Andreas Krieg
Published online: 26 May 2024
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The external dimension of Italian migration policy in the wider Mediterranean
Matilde Rosina & Iole Fontana
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Exploring the impacts of conspiracy theories on election dynamics in Spain and Turkey
Türkay Salim Nefes & Alejandro Romero-Reche
Published online: 20 May 2024
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‘De Mistura ideas to reality are like windmills to Don Quixote’: A UN mediator in the Syrian conflict
Fadi Nicholas Nassar & Reinoud Leenders
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Visual frame analysis of the UKIP leave campaigns ‘Turkish migrant’ Brexit visuals
Hanife ErÍşen & Metin Ersoy
Published online: 25 Apr 2024
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Interpreting Europe: Sonic politics and the affective foundation of multilingual negotiations
Kaian Lam
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Catalysts of change: Unveiling the nexus between protest movements and party politics in the Mediterranean
Şebnem Yardımcı-Geyikçi & Jan Willem Duyvendak
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Bad mothers vs good mothers of the nation: The dual faces of Tunisian women in terrorism and in preventing extremism
Guendalina Simoncini
Published online: 08 Mar 2024
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BOOK REVIEW

Book Review
Understanding the persistence of competitive authoritarianism in algeria
Dalia Ghanem, Palgrave MacMillan, Hardcover, 2022, 225 pp., USD 92.04 (paperback), ISBN-10: ‎3031051017
Fouad Mami
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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Book Review
Secular power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign policy
by Sarah Wolff, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2021, 185 pp., 70 US$ (hardback), ISBN 9780472132539 (hardcover)
Alfred Tovias
Published online: 18 Feb 2024
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State, society and Islam in the Western regions of the Sahara: Regional interactions and social change
ed. Francisco Freire, London, I.B. Tauris, 2022, 376 pp., $120 (hardback), $39.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780755643479
Alexander Thurston
Published online: 16 Feb 2024
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‘The politics of art: Dissent and cultural diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan’
by Hanan Toukan, California, Stanford University Press, 2021, 336pp., USD 90, (hardcover) ISBN: 9781503604346
Alper Çakır
Published online: 16 Feb 2024
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Book Review
Obstáculos y retos estructurales en la España constitucional ¿Otra España es posible?
by David Ortega Gutiérrez, Madrid, Dykinson, 2023, 184 pp., USD 15.44 (paperback), ISBN 9788411704014
Marcos Echevarria-Eirea
Published online: 15 Feb 2024
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The politics of sea migrants in Southern Europe: Public attitudes and policy implications
Federica Genovese
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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Book Review
Faith in numbers: Religion, sectarianism, and democracy
by Michael Hoffman, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 212 pp., USD 125.00, (hardcover) ISBN 9780197538012
Kelly Stedem
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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The ‘Moroccogate’ scandal and European Parliament decision-making on Western Sahara
Irene Fernández-Molina & Anna Khakee
Published online: 08 Feb 2024
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Captagon and conflict: Drugs and war on the border between Jordan and Syria
Christina Steenkamp
Published online: 10 Jan 2024
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Still on the same path? Italian foreign and defence policy in the Enlarged Mediterranean
Fabrizio Coticchia & Matteo Mazziotti di Celso
Published online: 10 Jan 2024
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EU delegations as intermediaries of perceptions of the EU: A view from the MENA region
Katri Gadd & Viljam Engström
Published online: 04 Jan 2024
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Losing support to democracy: Political socialization, popular conceptualizations, and the formation of political grievances among marginalized youth in Tunisia
Sarah Anne Rennick
Published online: 27 Dec 2023
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Brief Report

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Strategic misalignment: European security and P/CVE engagement in the Sahel
Edoardo Baldaro & Francesco Strazzari
Published online: 23 Dec 2023
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European neighbourhood policy, the Bologna model and EU-Egyptian cooperation in Higher Education
Hanan Rezk & Ingeborg Tömmel
Published online: 21 Dec 2023
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Reframing coercive engineered migration theory: Ceuta and the Western Sahara
Berta Álvarez-Miranda & Elisa Brey
Published online: 15 Dec 2023
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Measuring ‘state-diffusion’ in post-conflict authoritarian Syria evidence from the 2021 public opinion survey
Kota Suechika
Published online: 13 Dec 2023
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Trajectories of depoliticization and re-politicization: Petitioning to Moroccan municipalities
Francesco Colin
Published online: 30 Nov 2023
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Extreme hardship, care ethics, and humanitarian protection: Lessons from Libya and Italy
Caterina Francesca Guidi, Anna Triandafyllidou & Katie Kuschminder
Published online: 30 Nov 2023
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Connecting security with sustainable development in the Eastern Mediterranean and generating pay-offs for the European Union
Stylianos A. Sotiriou
Published online: 09 Nov 2023
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‘Quietist’ Salafis after the ‘Arab revolts’ in Algeria and Libya (2011–2019): Between insecurity and political subordination
Inga Kristina Trauthig & Guy Robert Eyre
Published online: 29 Oct 2023
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Qatar’s evolving role in conflict mediation
Sansom Milton, Ghassan Elkahlout & Sana Tariq
Published online: 16 Oct 2023
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The EU in motion through emotions: Fear and migration policy in the Euro-Mediterranean context
Emmanuelle Blanc
Published online: 16 Oct 2023
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Introducing the comparative study of electoral systems in Tunisia: populist attitudes, political preferences, and voting behavior
Ameni Mehrez, Levente Littvay, Youssef Meddeb, Bojan Todosijevic & Carsten Schneider
Published online: 04 Sep 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
by Benoît Challand, Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-108—74826-1, Price: 34.99 USD
Sa’ad Halawani & Jessica Northey
Published online: 22 Aug 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Stability and the Lebanese State in the 20th Century: Building Political Legitimacy
by Tarek Abou Jaoude, London, ‎ I.B. Tauris (September 22, 2022), 248 pp., $115.00, (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-0755644148
Abbas Assi
Published online: 22 Aug 2023
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The use of the Macedonian name dispute on the candidates’ websites in Northern Greece’s regional and municipal elections of 2019
Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis
Published online: 25 Jul 2023
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Profile

Brief Report
The European Green Deal: Challenges and opportunities for the Southern Mediterranean
Serena Sandri, Hussam Hussein, Nooh Alshyab & Jacek Sagatowski
Published online: 22 Jul 2023
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Medical aid under the shadow of the Covid-19: A political crisis among the leadership in North Cyprus
Pembe Tölük & Bahire Özad
Published online: 21 Jul 2023
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Changing focus while maintaining balance: Strategic adjustments behind the developing Sino-Saudi relations
Gangzheng She
Published online: 26 Jun 2023
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Books Received

Book Review
Books for Review
Nadine Sika
Published online: 09 Jun 2023
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Budget politics and democratization in Tunisia: The loss of consensus and the erosion of trust
Irene Weipert-Fenner
Published online: 10 May 2023
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Book Review

Book Review
Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon
Sarah Parkinson, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2023, pp., 270. USD $125 (hardcover) ISBN: 1501766295, $24.95 (paperback) ISBN: 1501767143, free download (ebook) ISBN: 1501766295
Stacey Philbrick Yadav
Published online: 08 May 2023
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No roadmap, no global vision: Shortcomings and pitfalls of the first stage of decentralization reforms in Tunisia
Bassem Karray
Published online: 04 May 2023
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Taxing the rich but not the capitalists: Direct taxation in Sisi’s Egypt (2014-2021)
Amr Adly
Published online: 03 May 2023
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Socioeconomic reforms in times of political transformation: Conflicts over the political economy in Egypt and Tunisia post-2011
Irene Weipert-Fenner
Published online: 01 May 2023
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The social contention over a new labour law in post- 2014 Egypt: Understanding regime choices and strategies
Nadine Abdalla
Published online: 01 May 2023
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