Mediterranean Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Mediterranean Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rallying around the mosque or flag: The effects of morality and security agenda setting on political performance in Turkey40
Small states, neutrality, and regional security: Malta’s exceptional role in the Mediterranean19
Europe as promise and problem: Interdependent ambivalence in Israeli public discourse14
Neoliberal citizenship: Sacred markets, sacrificial lives10
How does public weeping affect public approval rate of a politician?10
Post-Salafism in Cambodia: From counterreligion to accommodation10
‘Hagia Sophia’s reconversion: Turkey’s de-Europeanization through Lefebvre’s spatial triad’10
Israel’s 12-day war on Iran and the Russian fighter jet exports: A geopolitical analysis9
The ‘Moroccogate’ scandal and European Parliament decision-making on Western Sahara9
The impact of right-wing populist policies on Muslim immigrants in Italy: Integration problems and resistance mechanisms8
Electoral engineering in autocracies: Effects of the 2021 electoral reform on Morocco’s parliamentary elections7
Faith in numbers: Religion, sectarianism, and democracy7
Populists and diplomats: Negotiated agency of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs7
Supporting a revolution from afar: The construction of unity between generations of Sudanese exiles in France7
Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins7
Islam and nationalism in modern Greece, 1821—19406
Correction6
The continuation of criminalization by other means: the role of judicial agency in the Italian policing of humanitarian assistance at sea6
Understanding territorial withdrawal: Israeli occupation and exit6
Visual frame analysis of the UKIP leave campaigns ‘Turkish migrant’ Brexit visuals6
Introducing the comparative study of electoral systems in Tunisia: populist attitudes, political preferences, and voting behavior6
“Always they look at you as a stranger”: affective encounters with the border among irregularised African migrants in Israel6
European neighbourhood policy, the Bologna model and EU-Egyptian cooperation in Higher Education6
Islamist populism? Exploring the MENA region from a comparative and empirical perspective5
The bidirectional relationship between social contracts and entrepreneurship: Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Kurdistan Region of Iraq5
Populism in Israel: Netanyahu and the strategic approach5
Interpreting Europe: Sonic politics and the affective foundation of multilingual negotiations5
Guardianship and democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary consolidation, popular contestation4
China in the Mediterranean: An arena of strategic competition4
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat: Countering global alarmism4
Egypt: A fragile power Egypt: A fragile power , by Eberhard Kienle, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, 228 pp., USD 42.70 (ebook), ISBN: 97804298054174
Performing (against) the state4
The end of Jihadi Salafism? The religious governance of HTS, the Post-Jihadi rebel ruler in Northern Syria4
Unravelling anti-feminist social network in Turkey: An Analysis of Actors, relationships and political influence4
The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition4
Revolutionary burnout: Subjective crisis responses and the demobilization of mass protest in Lebanon4
Obstáculos y retos estructurales en la España constitucional ¿Otra España es posible?3
Social democracy between decline and resilience: PASOK and CHP in comparative perspective3
When does the opposition unite? An examination of Lebanon’s 2022 parliamentary election3
Jordanian Islamists and the war on Gaza3
The making of rivals and strange bedfellows: Patterns of Turkish and Russian security assistance in the Syrian and Libyan civil wars3
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of power and dissent3
Humanitarian exceptionalism and fluctuating solidarity: Gulf States’ aid in Gaza3
The autocratic parliament: Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-20113
Reframing coercive engineered migration theory: Ceuta and the Western Sahara3
Structure over symbolism: Organizational asymmetry and diaspora mobilization in Albania’s 2025 postal vote3
Secular power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign policy3
Populism and fear in Israel: The case of the judicial reform3
Travelling for security: A study of Israel’s high-level diplomatic visits3
Turkey’s relations with Israel: The first sixty two years, 1948–20102
Campaigning for the revolution: Freedom, social justice and citizenship imaginaries in the Egyptian Uprising2
Understanding the persistence of competitive authoritarianism in algeria2
Speaking apart: Rhetorical polarization in Turkey’s parliament, 2011–20232
Turkey, Iran, and the politics of comparison2
Changing focus while maintaining balance: Strategic adjustments behind the developing Sino-Saudi relations2
Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa2
Strategic misalignment: European security and P/CVE engagement in the Sahel2
Still on the same path? Italian foreign and defence policy in the Enlarged Mediterranean2
Media coverage of climate change in Jordan: Reflections on politics, economics and climate science2
‘The politics of art: Dissent and cultural diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan’2
Introduction: Socioeconomic reforms in times of political transformation: Conflicts over the political economy in Egypt and Tunisia post-20112
There and back again: The foreign fighters security threat in the Mediterranean2
Stability source or curse? Fossil fuels and Algeria’s regime stability in the light of EU’s green transition2
Populist securitization of migration: The anti-immigrant Zafer Party example in Türkiye2
European aid and democracy support to MENA countries after the Arab Uprisings: A critical juncture missed2
Yemen’s Islamists and the War in Gaza: The interplay of ideology, context, and strategy2
Who defines moderation? Adapting Islamist and Salafi identities in Tunisia to a changing religio-political field2
Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 , by Ali Çarkoğlu and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Ann Ar2
Critical junctures, labour unions, and social dialogue in Tunisia and Lebanon: Implications for the social contract2
Legacy, memory and learning in the Algerian women’s movement: Strategic adaptation of the Hirak across overlapping arenas of authority2
A quarter-century of studying Euro-Mediterranean relations: A systematic literature review2
Measuring ‘state-diffusion’ in post-conflict authoritarian Syria evidence from the 2021 public opinion survey2
The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council: Towards a New Path The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council: Towards a New Path , edited by Adel Abdel Gh1
Catalysts of change: Unveiling the nexus between protest movements and party politics in the Mediterranean1
The intimate politics of silence. Left-wing politicizations in Ben Ali’s Tunisia1
EU delegations as intermediaries of perceptions of the EU: A view from the MENA region1
Militant Islamism in Lebanon and the War on Gaza1
Remembering the Midan : Nostalgia and propaganda in Egyptian media and popular culture1
Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework1
Security assistance to surrogates – how the UAE secures its regional objectives1
Post-salafism by learning: The indigenization of globalized, exclusivist Salafism in Tunisia and Morocco1
State, society and Islam in the Western regions of the Sahara: Regional interactions and social change1
Israel, Gaza and the Politics of Palliative Peace: Colonialism, (de)mobilization and why the Two-State Solution is made to Fail1
‘Quietist’ Salafis after the ‘Arab revolts’ in Algeria and Libya (2011–2019): Between insecurity and political subordination1
The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices1
(Re)ordering the Mediterranean: The evolution of security assistance as an international practice1
Towards an exclusionary social contract: Narratives of a revanchist city in (post)war Syria1
The ‘Atalanta Effect’: Spain and the politics of leadership in the European Union’s maritime security operations1
The mediation of maritime borders between states at loggerheads: Why Lebanon’s political conditions helped broker a deal with Israel on Line 231
Security assistance, securitization, security systems, and insecurity in the Mediterranean mashriq and maghreb1
A theory of gender’s effect on vote shift with a test based on Turkish elections1
Budget politics and democratization in Tunisia: The loss of consensus and the erosion of trust1
Bad mothers vs good mothers of the nation: The dual faces of Tunisian women in terrorism and in preventing extremism1
Tunisia when the university produces the vanguard of the revolution in the rural area1
Opposition learning in Morocco through the lense of football1
Urban resilience and migration governance in Tunisia’s unstable political environment1
Making Democracy Safe for Business: Corporate politics during the Arab uprisings1
Taxing the rich but not the capitalists: Direct taxation in Sisi’s Egypt (2014-2021)1
Salafis’ hybrid trajectories of socio-political engagement in Tunisia and Algeria. A social movement perspective1
Competing national roles: Domestic role contestation and foreign policy in Spain and Portugal during the Iraq war1
Friends or foe: Militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War Friends or foe: Militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War , b1
UN mediators in Syria: The challenges and responsibilities of conflict resolution1
Normalized but politically contingent: The paradox of Islamist moderation after the Arab Spring1
Syrian Jihadis’ reaction to the Gaza conflict1
From Yiwu to Hebron: China and the changing dynamics of Palestinian trade in the West Bank0
Populism and crisis: Evidence from the periphery of Europe0
Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings0
Dynamic nationalist alignments and Greece’s Golden Dawn: From Islamist admiration to Islamophobia0
Correction0
Pandemic scepticism as politically driven talk: The case of Palestinian context0
Salafism and the local: Negotiation, accommodation and Re-localization of Ethiopian Salafism0
Minister vs. Mufti the struggle over ‘moderate Islam’ in wartime Syria (2011–2021)0
Engaging liminal sectarianism under national domination: Arab Christian socio-political boundary work towards Muslim co-ethnics among Palestinian citizens of Israel0
Schooling the nation: Education and everyday politics in Egypt0
The illusion of sovereignty in the TRNC: The AKP regime in Turkey and changing dynamics in the de facto state in Cyprus0
Grasping Arab Islamist responses to the war on Gaza0
The use of intersectional tactics by Tunisia’s multicultural movement to build social capital and sustain collective action: It is not what we say or think that defines us but what we do0
Community perspectives of foreign-funded mosques in Pristina, Kosovo: Local impact and donor state reception0
The 2021 Portuguese Presidential Elections under extraordinary circumstances: Covid-19 and the rise of the radical right in Portugal0
Intermediary organizations, international cooperation and the changing social contract: Morocco’s new development model0
The solar energy market and the transformation of patron-client relations in Lebanon0
Civil society’s development in Tunisia’s democratization process, 2011-20210
Spiking up anger, nostalgia and disgust: The polarized dynamics of Turkish women’s volleyball0
The politics of anti-corruption crackdowns in autocracies: Evidence from Jordan0
Opposition learning in the Middle East and North Africa: Comparative findings on mechanisms, sources, and effects0
The language of ‘conquest’ in Syria’s renewed war against Kurdish self-rule0
When polarization meets backsliding: Affective polarization and support for undemocratic practices in Turkey0
Egyptian authoritarian resilience, the evolution of the party system and the Nation’s Future Party0
Post-Salafism: From global to local Salafism0
Iranians as real estate purchasers and international students: Transformation of Turkish-Iranian migration corridor0
Mirages of reform: The politics of elite protectionism in the Arab World0
Party digitalization and members’ empowerment: A comparison of four Italian parties0
Voices of resilience: Civil society and community perspectives on gender-based violence in conflict-affected Syria0
Planned temporariness: Hezbollah, the state, and the politics of post-war compensation in Lebanon (2006–2025)0
The intercommunal relations in Cyprus during the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards a fait accompli policy?0
Community policing in areas of limited statehood: The case of Lebanon0
The European Green Deal: Implications for Turkey0
The war in Gaza, the decline of US leadership and the emergence of a networked regional order0
Turkey’s 2024 municipal elections. A turning point for democratic resilience?0
Communication geography and the spatio-discursive construction of BRI projects: Geographical frames in media discourses on Piraeus Port0
How do oppositions learn in times of disaster? The ambiguities of opposition learning after the 2020 Beirut port explosion0
Programmatic change in Southern European radical left parties: The impact of a decade of crises (2010–2019)0
Captagon and conflict: Drugs and war on the border between Jordan and Syria0
Reaching for the heights: The inside story of a secret attempt to reach an Israeli-Syrian peace Reaching for the heights: The inside story of a secret attempt to reach an Israeli-Syrian0
Diaspora diplomacy: The politics of Turkish emigration to Europe Diaspora diplomacy: The politics of Turkish emigration to Europe , by0
How Lebanon’s security sector works amidst state collapse0
The social contention over a new labour law in post- 2014 Egypt: Understanding regime choices and strategies0
Hezbollah: A regional armed non-state actor0
Tough lessons: Opposition learning in response to authoritarian resilience in the Middle East and North Africa0
Visas and mobility: The EU’s ‘great shutdown’ that won’t stop population flows0
Buying time: The intellectual debate in Tunisia’s food crisis and Kais Saied’s wait-and-see strategy0
Medical aid under the shadow of the Covid-19: A political crisis among the leadership in North Cyprus0
The digital ethnonation: Multimodal extreme-right propaganda and national identity on YouTube0
Safeguarding the epistemic sphere: The learning mechanisms of journalists and academics opposing autocratisation in Türkiye0
Moving towards smarter social contracts? Digital transformation as a driver of change in state–society relations in the MENA region0
The ambivalent ‘emotional legacies’ of the 2011 Egyptian and Syrian revolutions0
Crisis and transformation in post-Bouteflika Algeria0
The origin of secular institutions: Ideas, timing, and organization The origin of secular institutions: Ideas, timing, and organization , by H. Zeynep Bulutigil, New Yor0
Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon0
No roadmap, no global vision: Shortcomings and pitfalls of the first stage of decentralization reforms in Tunisia0
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and contention in an authoritarian regime0
Living, remembering, and enduring revolutionary times: Insights from the Mediterranean0
Understanding Syrian Migration in Syria Normalisation, Return and Reintegration: The Case of Internally Displaced People in Post-War Reconstruction in Homs0
The EU, NATO and the Libya conflict: Anatomy of a failure0
Towards a non-Western model of security assistance: How Iran assists militaries0
Between strategic neglect and geopolitical realities: Ukraine and North Africa in Light of Russian Aggression0
‘De Mistura ideas to reality are like windmills to Don Quixote’: A UN mediator in the Syrian conflict0
Exploring the impacts of conspiracy theories on election dynamics in Spain and Turkey0
The use of the Macedonian name dispute on the candidates’ websites in Northern Greece’s regional and municipal elections of 20190
New horizons or old barriers? The 2023 EU anti-smuggling directive proposal and human mobility in the Mediterranean0
Secularization in the minaret’s shadow: Group identity and religious scepticism in Turkey0
Salafism, neo-salafism, and post-salafism. Evolutions of a radical current of Islam in France0
Learning to navigate evolving political spaces: Human rights associations in Morocco and Tunisia since the Arab Spring0
Connecting security with sustainable development in the Eastern Mediterranean and generating pay-offs for the European Union0
‘The rush for Syria: Sovereignty, patronage, and New-old threats to equitable political participation in post-Assad Syria’0
The European Green Deal: Challenges and opportunities for the Southern Mediterranean0
Books for Review0
Understanding change in Egypt’s social contract since 20110
Understanding Greece’s new foreign policy towards the Arab world: Instrumentalisation, balancing, and emerging opportunities0
Multilateral financial flows and state–business relations in Morocco0
Clientelism and its discontents: The role of wasta in shaping political attitudes and participation in Jordan0
Correction0
The energy transition(s) in Catalonia, Corsica, and Sardinia: Between sufficiency, sustainability and sovereignty0
Opposition learning as capitulation: Communist parties’ trajectories in Iraq and Morocco0
Italy-Türkiye military drone cooperation and its implications for Mediterranean politics0
Revolution, ego & ideology: The internal dynamics of the Lebanese opposition in the 2022 elections0
Making sense of the revolutions in the present temporalities, emotions, and the quest for dignity0
The 2023 Spanish general elections and the fourth Sánchez cabinet: A successful gamble for the left?0
The New Pact on Migration and Asylum in a shifting political context: Depoliticization and repoliticization in EU external migration policy0
The war on Gaza and Iraq’s resistance state0
Indonesia recalibrates relations with the Middle East0
US security Interests in the ‘new eastern Mediterranean’: Balancing Russia in a post-unipolar world0
Bridging the gap: The ‘revolutionary’ strategy of the Strong Egypt Party as a new attempt towards overcoming the secular/Islamist cleavage0
The EU in motion through emotions: Fear and migration policy in the Euro-Mediterranean context0
Stability and the Lebanese State in the 20th Century: Building Political Legitimacy0
Trajectories of depoliticization and re-politicization: Petitioning to Moroccan municipalities0
Extreme hardship, care ethics, and humanitarian protection: Lessons from Libya and Italy0
Shifting paradigms: Social protection vs. social policy in Lebanon0
A Crowded Room? The Destabilising Effect of Oversized Coalitions on Cabinet Survival in Southern Europe0
Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization0
The deep state in Egypt: The politics of a concept in the post-revolutionary era0
The politics of sea migrants in Southern Europe: Public attitudes and policy implications0
Political economy: Comparative, international, and historical perspectives0
Losing support to democracy: Political socialization, popular conceptualizations, and the formation of political grievances among marginalized youth in Tunisia0
Statelet of survivors: The making of a semi-autonomous region in northeast Syria0
Disposable rebels: US military assistance to insurgents in the Syrian war0
Salafism and dialectics of Muslim identity in Nigeria and the Sahel0
The external dimension of Italian migration policy in the wider Mediterranean0
The echoes of defeat: Resentment in post-revolutionary Egypt0
Bounded knowledge: doctoral studies in Egypt Bounded knowledge: doctoral studies in Egypt , edited by Daniele Cantini, Cairo, Egypt, AUC Press, 2021, 228 pp., GBP 80 (ha0
Morocco’s dual realist and neoliberalism foreign policy: An examination of Morocco’s decision to strengthen ties with Israel, 2009–20230
Qatar’s evolving role in conflict mediation0
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