Şaban Kardaş is Research Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, currently on leave from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at TOBB ETU.Bülent Aras is Adjunct Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, Research Director at Center for International Policy Research.

• Introduction—Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside 1. Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East: Geopolitical Shifts and Strategic Choices 2. Russia and the New Middle East 3. China and New Middle East 4. Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium 5. The Second Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Change or Continuity? 6. Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 7. The Unbridgeable Gulf: Applying Bennett’s Model of Analysis to the 2017 Gulf Crisis 8. Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance

Şaban Kardaş is Research Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, currently on leave from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at TOBB ETU.Bülent Aras is Adjunct Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, Research Director at Center for International Policy Research.

• Introduction—Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside 1. Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East: Geopolitical Shifts and Strategic Choices 2. Russia and the New Middle East 3. China and New Middle East 4. Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium 5. The Second Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Change or Continuity? 6. Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 7. The Unbridgeable Gulf: Applying Bennett’s Model of Analysis to the 2017 Gulf Crisis 8. Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance

Şaban Kardaş is Research Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, currently on leave from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at TOBB ETU.Bülent Aras is Adjunct Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, Research Director at Center for International Policy Research.

• Introduction—Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside 1. Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East: Geopolitical Shifts and Strategic Choices 2. Russia and the New Middle East 3. China and New Middle East 4. Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium 5. The Second Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Change or Continuity? 6. Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 7. The Unbridgeable Gulf: Applying Bennett’s Model of Analysis to the 2017 Gulf Crisis 8. Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance