GUEST EDITORS' NOTE

The present issue of Insight Turkey offers a collection of articles responding to a highly topical agenda including the political and social transformations in the region. In particular, the present volume seeks to address the question of what is new in the New Middle East and how to address the new...

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Published in:Insight (Türkey) 2015-06, Vol.17 (3), p.4-8
Main Authors: Yesiltas, Murat, Kardas, Tuncay
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Arab Spring
Counterterrorism
Editors
Foreign policy
Geopolitics
Humanitarianism
Intervention
Islamic countries
Middle East
Middle Eastern politics
Military aspects
Military technology
National interests
Paramilitary groups
Political aspects
Political extremism
Politics
Rebellions
Religious terrorism
Riddles
Sovereignty
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Summary:The present issue of Insight Turkey offers a collection of articles responding to a highly topical agenda including the political and social transformations in the region. In particular, the present volume seeks to address the question of what is new in the New Middle East and how to address the new and enduring challenges in the region. While it acknowledges and addresses differing views and outlooks on the Middle Eastern politics, the unifying thread is to reject easy categorizations of regional developments. This issue aspires to show that addressing the 'new' in the New Middle East means scrutinizing beyond the confines of limited and ethnocentric accounts. The macro and micro level transformations in the region necessitate scholarly as well as public discussions to better understand the basic contours of the ruptures and continuities in the Middle East. Six commentaries and seven articles animate this issue to contribute to our understanding of the new dynamics and reconstitutions observed in the last five years or so following the Arab Uprisings and its complex political consequences. In the first article, The New Middle East, ISIS and the 6th Revolt against the West, Murat Yesiltas and Tuncay Kardas scrutinize the 'new' in 'the new Middle East.' They argue that the 'new' in the Middle East is a revolt against the West that is underway challenging the dominant values of Western statehood and personhood. The paper identifies the said novelty in the politics of radical antagonism, apocalyptic geopolitical imagination, the re-birth of extra-territorial subjectivities and the politics of resistance, which together shatter the existing political logos.
ISSN:1302-177X
2564-7717