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Small State Foreign Policy in Central Asia The Cases of
Small State Foreign Policy in Central Asia: The Cases of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan

This article examines and compares the foreign policy preferences of three small states in Central Asia, namely...

Monday, December 19, 2022

Iran and the Gulf The Era of Hassan Rouhani
Iran and the Gulf: The Era of Hassan Rouhani

The paper utilizes the theory of neoclassical realism as its theoretical foundation to understand the relations between...

Monday, December 19, 2022

Impact of Turmoil and Gas Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean
Impact of Turmoil and Gas Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean on Jordanian Energy Security and Foreign Policy

The Mediterranean region has witnessed a lot of turbulence in the last decade. On the one hand, the Arab uprising changed...

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Do Morals Matter Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

Nye discusses the challenges for a future, moral foreign policy and specifies two global power shifts that will shape the...

Monday, June 21, 2021

Turkey and Russia in Syria Testing the Extremes
Turkey and Russia in Syria: Testing the Extremes

The book’s originality owes much to Yükselen’s examination of the changing character of the Syrian War and its impacts on...

Monday, June 21, 2021

İki Darbe Arasında Türkiye Suriye Politikası 1960-1980 Between Two Coups
İki Darbe Arasında: Türkiye Suriye Politikası (1960-1980) [Between Two Coups: Turkey’s Syria Policy (1960-1980)]

With Between Two Coups, Salık fills a gap in the literature of Turkish-Syrian relations and offers a detailed account not...

Monday, June 21, 2021

Turkey in the UN Security Council Its Election and Performance
Turkey in the UN Security Council: Its Election and Performance

Turkey successfully gained provisional membership of the United Nations Security Council by receiving support from 151...

Thursday, October 1, 2009

AK Party s Foreign Policy Is Turkey Turning Away from
AK Party’s Foreign Policy: Is Turkey Turning Away from the West?

This article agrees that there is a transformation in Turkish foreign policy. It suggests that the changes in foreign...

Friday, January 1, 2010

Potential Roles for Turkey as a Rising Regional Actor in
Potential Roles for Turkey as a Rising Regional Actor in Eurasia

Today, energy security is an important domestic and foreign policy matter and states are looking for alternative energy...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Russian Geopolitical Power in the Black and Caspian Seas Region
Russian Geopolitical Power in the Black and Caspian Seas Region: Implications for Turkey and the World

Exerting influence in the wider Black and Caspian Seas region is becoming a crucial element in Russia’s current...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Turkey as a Regional Energy Hub
Turkey as a Regional Energy Hub

Turkey has so many factors operating in favor of it becoming one of the world’s great energy hubs – and yet there are so...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Whither an Axis Shift A Perspective from Turkey s Foreign
Whither an Axis Shift: A Perspective from Turkey’s Foreign Trade

Our analysis will discuss Turkey’s changing direction, if any, in terms of its trade orientation. This paper argues that...

Saturday, January 1, 2011


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