Dr. Philipp O. Amour is thrilled to announce the publication of his latest edited Book by Palgrave Macmillan “The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances”. This book examines the regional order in the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security…
Dr Philipp O. Amour is excited to announce that his latest book on the Middle East is in production by USA: Palgrave MacMillan, to appear in 2020. The book entitled “The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East. Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances” contains 14 chapters that are divided into three major…
Dr Philipp O. Amour is pleased to announce the publication of his edited volume: “The Middle East Reloaded: Revolutionary Changes, Power Dynamics, and Regional Rivalries Since the Arab Spring”. The Middle East is a center of ceaseless global attention. Since 2011, the long awaited and much celebrated Arab Spring uprisings portended a major shift in…
Did a Palestine Spring take place? The lost decade in PalestineThe Arab Spring movement, in its initial state, delivered to Palestinians a revolutionary stimulus and a strategic window to challenge domestic politics. In retrospect, however, the Palestine Spring proved to be short-lived and ineffective in achieving the demanded politico-economic reforms and national unification of Fatah…
Palestine within the unfolding regional order in the Middle East How have regional dynamics and domestic pathologies since 2010 affected (i.e., constrained or delimited) Palestinian reconciliation and rapprochement between Fatah and Hamas? This article concludes that the interplay of systemic and domestic factors has notably set the two rival movements on distinctly different trajectories of…
Abstract: [wpdm_package id=’2520′] The broader Gulf Region and the Middle East have been witnessing a turbulent period since the closure of the first decade of the 21st century, one of uprisings and counter–uprisings, of civil wars and proxy wars as well as of deliberate destabilizing crises. Shifts in the distribution of power through the regional…
Israel’s security reading of recent regional developments and its foreign policy towards the attendant and emerging strategic challengesSince 2011, geo-strategic interactions have exerted pressure on various political communities. In particular, uncertainty over the foreign policy intentions of new leadership elites and the nature of the unfolding regional security system in the Middle East have impacted…
The Case of the Ocober WarDr Philipp O. Amour had the privilege to be invited to contribute a chapter for a recently published book on the October War of 1973 – also known as the Yom Kippur War, and the Ramadan War. The collection was edited by Dr Asaf Siniver, and published in Fall 2013…
For his outstanding achievementsDr Philipp Amour’s biography has been selected and included for publication by Who’s Who in the World 2014 (31st Edition) for his outstanding scholarly achievements, and extraordinary commitment of the highest quality to excellence in research and teaching.
The Case of the October WarDr Philipp O. Amour had the privilege to be invited to contribute a chapter for a recently published book on the October War of 1973 – also known as the Yom Kippur War, and the Ramadan War. The collection was edited by Dr Asaf Siniver, and published in Fall 2013…