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Birol Baskan

@BBaskanNotes

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Birol Baskan
Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
My new book is out: The Making of the Middle East: The Myth and Reality of Political Power. Growing out of my notes taken over roughly two decades of reading on the region it is a basic account of the making of the Middle East. Here is the link: amazon.com/dp/B0GP1DQ2JK
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
@JanVoemel indeed. it seems the book hits a nerve within the Muslim world.
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Jan Vömel
Jan Vömel@JanVoemel·
@BBaskanNotes Sure, agree. But what I mean - the book itself has a story now. A level of engagement and interest on a global level way beyond what academic books can hope for... Often from quite religious circles. Tracing that and it's reasons should be interesting
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
@JanVoemel I am not sure whether he state-ulema alliance explains every ill in the Muslim World. But, still, it is an important factor to be taken seriously.
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Jan Vömel
Jan Vömel@JanVoemel·
@BBaskanNotes Bu kitabın global bir fenomen haline gelmesi de epey ilginç ayrı bir konu olur...
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, just praised, -rightly I believe,- Erdogan on X and thanked the Turkish nation for its solidarity with the “Islamic ummah.” The timing is notable. The vocabulary is even more so. See my post: birolbaskan.substack.com/p/pezeshkians-…
Masoud Pezeshkian@drpezeshkian

T.C. Cumhurbaşkanı, aziz kardeşim Sayın R.T. Erdoğan’ın saldırgan Siyonist rejimi kınama konusundaki kararlı tutumu takdire şayandır.Kardeş Türk milleti, uzun yıllardır İslam ümmetiyle dayanışmada önemli bir rol üstlenmiştir. Bu şerefli yolu, ilahî lütufla birlikte devam edeceğiz

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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
Last night I was a guest on @hediyelevent 's YouTube channel to discuss the ongoing war, but ended up talking about how the region got to this point. It is in Turkish. But, there is automatic English translation option. youtube.com/live/GM635g6U-…
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
For years he appeared before the world composed, measured, firm, even smiling. These tears do not make him look weak. They show the burden he has long carried behind that calm face.
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
What moves me in this image is not only grief. It is history written on a face. Sheikh Tamim became emir on 25 June 2013, just as Qatar’s regional bet on the Arab uprisings was collapsing. Within a few years came isolation, blockade, and relentless pressure from its neighbors.
عادل بن ثاني الزراع@benthaniqatar

قائدٌ بمعنى الكلمة… دائماً بجانب شعبه، يفرح لفرحتهم ويحزن لحزنهم. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani تميم المجد معنا في السراء والضراء 🇶🇦 طالت عمرك يا سمو الأمير، وحفظك الله ذخراً للوطن وأهله، وأدام على قطر الأمن والعز والرخاء

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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
The relationship between Iran and the Arab monarchies of the Gulf has not always looked the way it does today. For long stretches of the modern period, Iran was not the central threat. Cont'd: birolbaskan.substack.com/p/iran-and-the…
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
The war now unfolding between the United States, Israel, and Iran has reached the Arab Gulf monarchies and shaken them deeply, as Iran has directed attacks and threats against their territory. This is a good moment to step back and take a longer view.
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
As the United States became an active participant in a war in the Gulf’s neighborhood, an old piece of advice began to circulate once again: do not rely only on Washington, diversify your security partners. cont'd: birolbaskan.substack.com/p/the-gulfs-on…
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
The latest war has exposed, once again, the central security problem of the Gulf monarchies. They have enormous wealth, expensive weapons systems, active diplomacy, and several foreign partners with a stake in their survival. Yet their security remains fragile.
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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
My point is: the smaller Gulf monarchies are rich but too small to defend themselves alone in a much larger, poorer, and unstable region. And U.S. protection comes with a price: their neutrality fades and its wars can become theirs too. For English: birolbaskan.substack.com/p/small-rich-a…
Daktilo1984@daktilo1984

🚩"ABD ile İran arasında doğrudan bir çatışma başladığında, dört Körfez ülkesi de savaşın alevlerinden kaçamaz. Zira ne kadar tarafsız olduklarını iddia ederlerse etsinler, tam tarafsız değillerdir." Birol Başkan (@BBaskanNotes) yazdı👇 daktilo1984.com/daktilo2/kucuk…

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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
this is a powerful critique of Hanioğlu's biography of Ataturk. Mert makes a simple point: it is in the service of writing a new official history for the new ruling elite of turkey.
K24@kitapkritik24

NURAY MERT – Hanioğlu’nun Atatürk’ü ve yeni resmî tarih: “Kemalist eski resmî tarih anlatısını sorgulamamak nasıl geçmişi kavramak açısından sorunluysa, yeni resmî tarihler de benzer sorunlar taşır. Dahası, güçlerini yitirmiş düşünsel iktidarları ve ölü otokratları sorgulamak, yenilerini sorgulamaktan çok daha konforlu bir iştir.” k24kitap.org/hanioglunun-at… @kitapkritik24 aracılığıyla

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Birol Baskan@BBaskanNotes·
A basic structural fact lies behind the security dilemma of smaller Gulf states: extraordinary wealth concentrated in very small states, exposed to a much larger, poorer, and often unstable regional environment. cont'd: birolbaskan.substack.com/p/small-rich-a…
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