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The Declassification Engine What History Reveals about America s Top

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets

Book Reviews

A gripping book, The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets will appeal to anyone with a curiosity in American...

Exploring Climate Migration and Environmental Security Türkiye to America and

Exploring Climate Migration and Environmental Security: Türkiye to America and Beyond

Review Article

Since all three books were published in 2023, they are foremost among the works that will be useful for those interested in this topic, as they are...

The Ukraine War Impacts on the International System and Türkiye

The Ukraine War: Impacts on the International System and Türkiye

Articles

This article argues that the Ukraine war is the first major conflict since the end of the Cold War to bring the two major nuclear powers, the U.S....

The American Passport in Turkey National Citizenship in the Age

The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism

Book Reviews

The American Passport in Turkey offers readers an in-depth analysis regarding American citizenship’s transnational meanings and ideals which are...

U S -China Cyber Warfare in the 21st Century Implications

U.S.-China Cyber Warfare in the 21st Century: Implications for International Security

Articles

The power competition between the major powers of the world has always been dependent on the strategic security landscape. Over the years, military...

Western Perception and Media Coverage of Türkiye s Elections

Western Perception and Media Coverage of Türkiye’s Elections

Commentaries

Media coverage of the recent elections in Türkiye, especially in the first round, has proven the profound distortion of image and misperception in...

NATO s Enlargement Policy and Türkiye s Position A Key

NATO’s Enlargement Policy and Türkiye’s Position: A Key NATO Ally

Commentaries

NATO’s enlargement policy indicates the admission of new members with full membership status within the framework of mutual mandates and...

Turkey between the United States and Russia Surfing on the

Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the Edge

Book Reviews

Turkey between the United States and Russia distinguishes itself from other studies in the literature by simultaneously considering tripartite...

The Faces of Contemporary Populism in Western Europe and the

The Faces of Contemporary Populism in Western Europe and the US

Book Reviews

Making a remarkable contribution to understanding various degrees of contemporary populism, it helps to understand how populism as an ideology is...

Truths and Lies in the Middle East Memoirs of a

Truths and Lies in the Middle East: Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist, 1952-2012

Book Reviews

The New Map offers a detailed perspective on energy, geopolitics, great power competition, and the environment by connecting historical information...

Will the Rise of China Transform the International System

Will the Rise of China Transform the International System?

Articles

In this article, the rise of China is discussed in the light of economic and military data, and what the challenge from China means for the global...

The Washington Agreement A Supplementary Document to the EU Efforts

The Washington Agreement: A Supplementary Document to the EU Efforts in Kosovo?

Articles

This paper analyzes the Washington Agreement (WA) in the context of European Union (EU) efforts to facilitate the dialogue between Kosovo and...

Turkey s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers

Turkey’s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers

Articles

How compatible is Turkey’s grand strategy with the grand strategies of global great powers? This article briefly summarizes principles of Turkish...

Editor's Note Fall 2021

Editor's Note | Fall 2021

Editor's Notes

With one more year coming to an end, we are pleased to present to our readers yet another insightful issue of Insight Turkey that has attempted to...

The Changing Contours of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman and

The Changing Contours of Saudi Arabia: Mohammed bin Salman and the Paradox of Saudi Reforms

Review Article

This review article aims to provide broader nuances about Saudi Arabia amid the rapid developments taking place in the Middle East in general and...

Questioning the Compass of the Western Media Early Perceptions of

Questioning the Compass of the Western Media: Early Perceptions of the July 15 Coup Attempt in Turkey

Articles

This study investigates how the western media reacted immediately after the July 15, 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. To this end, 91 news reports and...

The False Promise of Liberal Order Nostalgia Delusion and the

The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump

Book Reviews

The False Promise of Liberal Order is an enjoyable read for those looking for realist’s work with simple and parsimonious language and structure,...

Contemporary Experiences of Islamophobia in Today s United Kingdom Findings

Contemporary Experiences of Islamophobia in Today’s United Kingdom: Findings from Ten Small-Scale Studies

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In today’s the United Kingdom, Islamophobia is as contested as it is real. Challenging this contestation, this article presents findings from ten...

For a New Alterity of Islam in European Perspective

For a New Alterity of Islam in European Perspective

Articles

The depiction of Islam and Muslims in Europe has, in general, been dominated by an ‘Othering’ in which they are considered inherently different,...

Modern Muslims Online Struggle Countering Islamophobia One Tweet at a

Modern Muslims’ Online Struggle: Countering Islamophobia One Tweet at a Time

Commentaries

This commentary sheds light on some of the most creative online campaigns which have been launched to counter Islamophobia and overcome the...

Editor's Note Spring 2021

Editor's Note | Spring 2021

Editor's Notes

At a time when anti-Islam activities are resurging and the Muslim voices are kept down, this issue of Insight Turkey aims to present and to provide...

Trump s Coup and Insurrection Biden s Challenge and Opportunity

Trump’s Coup and Insurrection: Biden’s Challenge and Opportunity

Commentaries

President Donald Trump’s attempted coup and insurrection’s political effects are set to continue in the future because the enabling conditions have...

What Biden May Bring to the Eastern Mediterranean Region

What Biden May Bring to the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Commentaries

This paper aims to forecast the route that Joe Biden, will take in his foreign policy toward the Eastern Mediterranean, by trying to analyze the...

Editor's Note Winter 2021

Editor's Note | Winter 2021

Editor's Notes

While the importance of the region certainly is going to increase in the following years as more regional and global actors will be included in the...

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