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Abdullah Eren

Abdullah Eren graduated from the sociology department of Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He continues his graduate education in the same university at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History. He is a researcher and alumni of the ISAR Foundation that presents special education on Islamic and social sciences. Abdullah Eren is interested in security and military policy in the Middle East, military sociology, Gulf countries and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Posts From This Author

[Book Review] Mariam Al-Kuwari, Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar (Springer, 2025). Reviewed by Abdullah Eren

By Abdullah Eren // September 15, 2026

While the Arab Gulf states are often portrayed through the familiar lens of the oil world, international diplomacy, tourism attractions, and rapid urbanization, the deeper social and political foundations that sustain them remain comparatively underexplored….

[Book Review] Iran, Revolution, and Proxy Wars by Ofira Seliktar and Farhad Rezaei (Springer, 2020) | Reviewed by Abdullah Eren

By Abdullah Eren // August 26, 2021

Proxy warfare is a currently growing military strategy by which states fight other states or non-state groups via unofficial armies. In Iran, Revolution and Proxy Wars, Ofira Seliktar and Farhad Rezaei offer an important study…