WHAT DRIVES THE CHANGES IN THE GULF OIL MONARCHIES? by N. Kjurchiski

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Église et scandales : Trollope ou la condamnation de l’excès by Hervé Picton

“…Trollope, by his own account a « conservative Liberal », was in reality a moderate who could not suffer excess — in religion as well as in politics. …”
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Market Liberals at a Crossroads in Post-Gezi Turkiye: Making Sense of a Framing Dispute by Mustafa Cüneyt Özşahin, H. Bahadır Akın, Şeyma Akın

“…These two factors can be encapsulated as the growing conservative/liberal division among market liberals and entrenched interpersonal patronage networks within political circles which is closely related to the changing nature of government-civil society relations in Turkey. …”
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The “Nixon China Shock” in the Mirror of Japanese Domestic Politics by V. V. Nelidov

“…Using the case of Japan’s reaction to this event, the article explores the characteristic features of the foreign policy making process in post-war Japan and demonstrates the considerable influence of these features on the character of Japanese foreign policy of the so-called “1955 System” period (the prolonged and continuous dominance of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party in 1955-93). The paper shows the decentralization of the foreign policy making process, expressed in the limited ability of the Prime Minister to determine foreign policy, the presence of considerable internal contradictions in the MoFA of Japan, the factionalism of the ruling party, and the high degree of dependency of the government’s policy course on the public opinion. …”
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