Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt (Hamburg): The Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Muslim Countries. Jonathan W. Pidluzny (Morehead State): Democracy is Not the Answer; Mixed Constitutional Government Is — Regime Change in the Middle East After the Arab Spring. Ellis Goldberg (Washington): The Urban Roots of the Arab Spring. Farhad Khosrokhavar (EHESS): Violence in the Arab Revolutions: The Paradigmatic Case of Egypt. Meah Mostafiz (EPU): Syrian Conflict: Dilemmas and Challenges in Peaceful Settlement. Daniel Meierrieks and Tim Krieger (Freiburg): The Roots of Islamist Armed Struggle. What do we mean by “Islamist”? Elizabeth R. Nugent investigates. The ups and downs of Islamism: Tarek Masoud reviews Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East by Shadi Hamid. Michael Hoffman and Amaney Jamal on how Islam mattered in the Arab uprisings. What was the role of religion in the Arab Spring? Kat Eghdamian investigates. Peter Hill on “the civil” and “the secular” in contemporary Arab politics. Amyn B. Sajoo reviews Minority Rights in the Middle East by Joshua Castellino and Kathleen A. Cavanaugh. Jillian Nicole Blake and Aqsa Mahmud on the Arab Spring's four seasons: International protections and the sovereignty problem. Nathaniel Greenberg reviews The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects by Nouri Gana. A look at life in a jihadist capital: Order with a darker side. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Amichai Magen on the jihadist governance dilemma: After making astounding territorial gains in its war against the Iraqi government the Islamic State declared a caliphate — but can jihadists govern? Dov Friedman on how the U.S. is accidentally pushing Kurdistan toward independence. John B. Judis on how the Middle East that France and Britain drew is finally unravelling — and there's very little the U.S. can do to stop it. Nick Danforth on 15 maps that don't explain the Middle East at all.
