Charting Transitions in the Middle East: Lessons Learned from Tunisia and Egypt
Leila Hilal
The Arab revolts have resulted in deposed heads of state in Yemen, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia. Of these countries the latter two—Egypt and Tunisia—saw mass street protestors quickly topple entrenched autocrats without significant violence or foreign intervention...
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Monetary Policy of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey after Global Financial Crisis
Erdem Başçı
The recent global financial crisis presented substantial challenges and lessons for all economic agents.
One of the most important lessons learned was the indispensability of financial stability for the smooth
functioning of the economy as a whole...
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Insight Greece: The Origins of the Present Crisis
Vassilis K. Fouskas
This commentary counters conservative, liberal, and social democratic explanations about Greece’s sovereign debt crisis. It advances an original analysis as to what the sources of the Greek debt are and what steps should be taken in order to emerge successfully from it...
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Rationalization of Turkey-Iran Relations: Prospects and Limits
Bayram Sinkaya
This article examines Turkish Iranian relations in the 2000s, when the two countries initiated an unprecedented rapprochement. It argues that modification of foreign policy paradigms in Turkey
and Iran led to the rationalization of bilateral relations that paved the way for improvement of
economic and political ties between the two states...
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America’s Asia-Pacific Strategy and Turkish-American Partnership
Kılıç Buğra Kanat
The debate on the future of the Turkish-American partnership has puzzled scholars in recent years due to its constant fluctuations. In the first year of the Obama administration, the parties tried to heal relations with high level exchanges and a new conceptual framework to define the relationship...
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An Unfulfilled Opportunity for Reconciliation: Israel and Turkey during the Arab Spring
Nimrod Goren
2011 brought an opportunity for Israel and Turkey to mend their bilateral relations. The re-election of Erdoğan in June 2011, coupled with the dramatic events of the Arab Spring, provided a new political and regional context in which the relations could be reevaluated...
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Allies with the Infidels, The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century Reviewed by Nicolas Vatin |
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The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals Reviewed by Christine Philliou |
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The Influence of the European Union on Turkish Foreign Policy Reviewed by Levent Kirval |












