Insight Turkey

Insight Turkey

Challenging ideas

On Turkish politics and International affairs


Editor's Note Winter 2026

Editor's Note | Winter 2026

This issue records the great historical tension between the chaotic atmosphere into which the...
Editor's Note Fall 2025

Editor's Note | Fall 2025

Taken together, the contributions in this issue situate the idea of a “Terror-Free Türkiye”...
Editor's Note Summer 2025

Editor's Note | Summer 2025

This special issue offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of ongoing conflicts,...
Handbook of Middle East Politics

Handbook of Middle East Politics

Shahram Akbarzadeh's edited book, Handbook of Middle East Politics, sheds light on the Middle...
West Asia A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle

West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East

The book aims to develop a new grand strategy proposal for the U.S. while discussing the...
Against Decolonisation Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the

Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West

By integrating postcolonial theory, campus practices, and cultural politics, the book presents a...
Syria after Assad Between American Conditionality and Russian Recalibration

Syria after Assad: Between American Conditionality and Russian Recalibration

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 forced a fundamental recalibration of...
Shattered Status Quo Iranian Resilience and the Limits of U

Shattered Status Quo: Iranian Resilience and the Limits of U.S. Strategy

The nearly 50-year-long tension between the United States and Iran has culminated in a broad,...
Syria in the Making One Year of Struggle for Recognition

Syria in the Making: One Year of Struggle for Recognition and Territorial Unity

Approximately one year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria has made concrete progress in...

 Articles

Recognizing Grand Strategy The Case of Vladimir Putin 2000-2023

Recognizing Grand Strategy: The Case of Vladimir Putin (2000-2023)

This research explores the trends in Moscow’s diplomacy in relation to its overall strategy. In...
Repercussions of the Absence of National Constants on State Governance

Repercussions of the Absence of National Constants on State Governance and National Security: Case Study of Sudan

This paper deals with one of the most important issues that has plagued Sudan since its...
The Trouble Triangle Islamophobia Neoliberalism and the Construction of Muslim

The Trouble Triangle: Islamophobia, Neoliberalism, and the Construction of Muslim Identity as “Other”

It has been more than 1,400 years since Muslim communities were classified as “other.”...

 Review Article

Redefining Genocide in Gaza A Crime Without a Name

Redefining Genocide in Gaza: A Crime Without a Name?

Since October 7, 2023, over 70,000 people have been killed in Gaza, and factoring in indirect...
Defying Small-State Orthodoxy The UAE s Outlier Trajectory toward Middle-Power

Defying Small-State Orthodoxy: The UAE’s Outlier Trajectory toward Middle-Power Status

By analyzing the three works above, this article argues that the United Arab Emirates’ post-2011...
Al-Aqsa Flood as a Turning Point Historical Roots Israel s

Al-Aqsa Flood as a Turning Point: Historical Roots, Israel’s Response, and the Colonial Question

These three books bring together the multi-layered causes of the al-Aqsa Flood Operation, the...

Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: Re-Imagining Communities through Arts and Cultural Activities

The book’s focus is on migrants enacting within structures that emerged from nation-building, and...

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Post-apartheid South Africa’s political transformation has been studied in a broad spectrum....

Islam in Global Modernity: Sociological Theory and the Diversity of Islamic Modernities

Islamic Modernities presents an intellectual attempt to rethink the entangled relationship...
Teknokutup Dünyada Türkiye Fırsatlar ve Riskler

Teknokutup Dünyada Türkiye: Fırsatlar ve Riskler

Tekno-kutuplu bir uluslararası sistemin şekillendiği bu dönemde, devletler ve şirketler kadar...
Web Panel II On the Eve of a New Century

Web Panel II | On the Eve of a New Century: Türkiye's Foreign Policy

As a continuation of the 1st Panel held on November 10th, Insight Turkey held a second panel...
Call for Papers The Technopolar World Order and Türkiye in

Call for Papers | The Technopolar World Order and Türkiye in a Changing Global Landscape

Insight Turkey invites scholars and experts to submit manuscripts for a special issue examining...
Call for Papers Emerging Technological Trends in a Changing World

Call for Papers | Emerging Technological Trends in a Changing World: Where Does Turkey Stand?

Insight Turkey will be happy to receive scholarly papers focusing on the impact that several...
Call for Papers Environmental Security in Turkey and Beyond

Call for Papers |Environmental Security in Turkey and Beyond

We welcome scholarly papers focusing on the dimensions of environmental security and their impact...
Panel I Climate Change and Migration

Panel I: Climate Change and Migration

We hope that Insight Turkey panel on Climate change and Migration will bring a fresh and useful...
We are now indexed by ULAKBİM

We are now indexed by ULAKBİM !

Insight Turkey journal is indexed by a rising number of scientific databases including ESCI and...
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