Michael Butter

Maurus Reinkowski

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays draws attention to the fact that conspiracist visions are transnational narratives that travel between and connect different cultures. It focuses on the United States and the Middle East because these two regions of the world are entangled in manifold ways and conspiracy theories are currently extremely prominent in both. The contributors to the volume are scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, who approach the subject from a variety of different theories and methodologies. However, all of them share the fundamental assumption that conspiracy theories must not be dismissed out of hand or ridiculed. Usually wrong and frequently dangerous, they are nevertheless articulations of and distorted responses to needs and anxieties that must be taken seriously. Focusing on individual case studies and displaying a high sensitivity for local conditions and the cultural environment, the essays offer a nuanced image of the workings of conspiracy theories in the United States and the Middle East.

A Comparative Approach

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East

Heinz Kramer

English summary: Europe and Turkey look back onto a history when each side often perceived the other as menacing and meddling. For many centuries Europe has affected Turkey as well as Turkey left its traces in Europe since the rise of the Ottomans. In this book the authors focus on the military confrontations in south eastern Europe during the early modern era, the Ottomans at the gates of Vienna, the imperialistic outreach of Europe in the 19th century and Turkey's change-over from Empire to Republic under Kemal Attaturk. Another focus lies on the relations between Turkey and Europe after the signature of the treaty of association 1964 and Turkey's long road to the European Union as well as Turkey's links to European security policy (NATO). How much Turkey in Europe - how much Europe in Turkey? German description: Europa und die Turkei blicken zuruck auf Jahrhunderte geteilter Geschichte - einer Geschichte, die auf beiden Seiten haufig als einseitige Bedrohung oder ungewollte Beeinflussung durch den Anderen wahrgenommen wird. Doch Europa hat zu allen Zeiten in die Turkei hineingewirkt und die Turkei hat ebenso ihre Spuren in Europa hinterlassen. Die Autoren zeichnen die europaisch-turkische Beziehungsgeschichte im Rahmen gesamteuropaischer Machtpolitik und in den Zeiten moderner Bundnispolitik (NATO, EU) nach. Das Buch versteht sich zugleich als ein Beitrag zur Versachlichung der deutschen Turkeidebatte.

eine wechselhafte Beziehungsgeschichte

Die Türkei und Europa

Hakan T. Karateke

The various strategies as to how the Ottoman sultans and the ruling elite tried to inculcate their understanding of authority and legitimacy into the Ottoman population are the focus of the articles in this collected volume.

The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power

Legitimizing the Order

Hans-Lukas Kieser

Kerem Oktem

With the end of the First World War, the centuries-old social fabric of the Ottoman world an entangled space of religious co-existence throughout the Balkans and the Middle East came to its definitive end. In this new study, Hans-Lukas Kieser argues that while the Ottoman Empire officially ended in 1922, when the Turkish nationalists in Ankara abolished the Sultanate, the essence of its imperial character was destroyed in 1915 when the Young Turk regime eradicated the Armenians from Asia Minor. This book analyses the dynamics and processes that led to genocide and left behind today s crisis-ridden post-Ottoman Middle East. Going beyond Istanbul, the book also studies three different but entangled late Ottoman areas: Palestine, the largely Kurdo-Armenian eastern provinces and the Aegean shores; all of which were confronted with new claims from national movements that questioned the Ottoman state. All would remain regions of conflict up to the present day.Using new primary material, World War I and the End of the Ottoman World brings together analysis of the key forces which undermined an empire, and marks an important new contribution to the study of the Ottoman world and the Middle East. "

From the Balkan Wars to the Armenian Genocide

World War I and the End of the Ottomans

Helpless Imperialists enquires into the relation between imperial exposure, fear, radicalization and violence and highlights moments of peripety bringing imperialist grandeur to collapse.

Imperial Failure, Fear and Radicalization

Helpless Imperialists

Thomas Demmelhuber

Axel T. Paul

Die Region des Nahen Ostens befindet sich seit 2011 in einem politischen Wandlungsprozess mit offenem Ausgang. Was sind die Gründe für diese Neukonfiguration, und worin liegen die Beharrungskräfte der alten Ordnung? Der Band enthält sowohl regionale Querschnittanalysen als auch historische Längsschnittuntersuchungen. Im Mittelpunkt der regional-vergleichenden Beiträge stehen die national unterschiedlichen Verlaufspfade der "Arabellion", die Rolle der internationalen Politik und regionale Akteure mit hegemonialen Ansprüchen. Die historisch orientierten Beiträge fokussieren auf Akteure außerhalb der staatlichen Ordnung, die Rolle der Medien und Prozesse gesellschaftlicher Selbstorganisation. Mit Beiträgen von: Thomas Demmelhuber, Kai Hafez, Cilja Harders, Thomas Hüsken, Annette Jünemann, Georg Klute, Ivesa Lübben, Kerem Öktem, Rachid Ouaissa, Axel Paul, Hanna Pfeifer, Maurus Reinkowski, Carola Richter, Katrin Sold, Guido Steinberg, Tobias Zumbrägel

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