Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East: Geopolitics, Ideology, and Strategy

ISBN-13: 9783319552866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 278 str.

Murat Yeşiltaş; Tuncay Kardaş

Opis

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups.

Spis treści

Part I: Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework

1. Introduction: The Phenomenon of Non-State Armed Actors and Patterns of Violent Geopolitics in the Middle East

Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş 

2. The Transformation of the Regional Order and Non-state Armed Actors: Pathways to the Empowerment

Şaban Kardaş

Part II: The Ethno-Secular Geopolitical Space in the Middle East

3. Understanding “Foreign Policy” of the PYD/YPG as a Non-State Actor in Syria and Beyond 

Berkan Öğür and Zana Baykal

4. The Kurdish Fight Against ISIS: Realizing the Virtual Kurdistan through Factionalized Politics in a Fragmented Homeland 

Galip Dalay

5. Global Politics of Image and the Making of a Legitimate Non-State Armed Actor: Syrian Kurds and ‘the Secular West’ in Kobane  

Tuncay Kardaş and Murat Yeşiltaş

Part III: The Rise of Sacred Political Space in the Middle East

6. Path to Become a State: From Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad to the Islamic State 

Recep Tayyip Gurler and Omer Behram Ozdemir

7. The New Middle East, ISIS and the 6th Revolt against the West 

Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş 

8. A New Controversial Actor in Post-ISIS Iraq: Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi (The Popular Mobilization Forces) 

Bilgay Duman and Göktuğ Sönmez

Part IV: New Methods in Old Bottles: The Strategy of Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East

9. Operationalizing the Vision of Building a New Caliphate: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (IS) 

Farhad Rezaei 

10. The Making of Foreign Fighters in the Middle East: Identity, Social Media and Virtual Radicalization

Tuncay Kardaş and Omer Behram Ozdemir

11. What the ISIS Crisis Means for the Future of the Middle East

Burak Kadercan

12. Conclusion: The State of the Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East 

Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş 

O autorze

Murat Yeşiltaş is Associate Professor in the Middle East Institute of Sakarya University, Turkey.

Tuncay Kardaş is Associate Professor in the Middle East Institute of Sakarya University, Turkey.

Blurb

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insights into the impact of three prominent actors, namely ISIS, YPG and Shia Militias. With its distinctive detailed and multi-faceted analyses, it offers new findings on the changing contours of sovereignty, geopolitics and ideology, particularly after the Arab Uprisings. Overall this volume contributes to the study of violent geopolitics, critical security studies and international relations particularly by exploring the ideologies and strategies of the new non-state armed actors.