The main orientation of Turkish foreign policy has recently been described as Europeanization, Middle Easternization, or Islamization. This article...

Change is a central concept in Turkish and global politics. It forms the basis of liberal ideology, alongside freedom, democracy, and equality. In...

The EU has been successfully exercising its conditionality as a key aspect of its enlargement strategy since the 1990s. However, with no accession...

The current peace process regarding Turkey’s Kurdish question could pave the way for the normalization of politics and democratization in Turkey if...

This paper provides an analysis of the most recent changes in Russian foreign policy that became a matter of global concern in the aftermath of the...

This paper presents the Foreign Policy Circumplex (FPC) coding framework and the (FPC-TR) to identify aspects of Turkish foreign policy behavior...

Like all long political years, the year 2014 did not begin on January 1st; rather, 2014 politically began at the end of May with the Taksim events....

The March 2014 local elections in Turkey did not drastically alter electoral balances in Turkey. The AK Party maintained its predominant position,...

The context of and the meaning conferred upon the local elections led it to be fought in a referandum-like atmosphere. Prior to the March 30 local...

Ahead of the 2014 local elections, the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), developed an aggressive outreach campaign to add new...

The civil war in Syria continues to devastate social and political structures, precipitating floods of refugees and surging populations of...

Over the past months, the crisis in Crimea presented the world with a case study on how rapidly national borders may shift in the 21st century. The...

As the third largest economy in the world, Japan cannot be overlooked in any analysis of Asia’s importance in international geopolitics and the...

The transformation of Turkish foreign policy has become a closely followed subject, fueling important debates on the underlying reasons, resources,...

Critical geopolitics, which is a relatively new field of study for scholars of international relations, seeks to understand and analyze how...

This article provides a general overview of Turkey’s relations with the Western Balkans during the AK Party government. Although the Western...

During the last decade international development assistance became an indispensable aspect of Turkish foreign policy. While expanding development...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the social and political causes of the Gezi protests, and their long- and short-term impact on Turkey’s...

The Gladio Scandal in Europe and, more recently, Turkey’s Ergenekon trials highlight the importance of hidden power networks behind the façade of...

This paper examines the position of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) during the Arab revolutions of 2010-2013. In the early 1990s, the...

Do perceptions of Muslim communities differ among receiving European societies? Are attitudes towards Euro-Turks more critical than other groups?...

Turkey’s 1982 Constitution does not reflect the values of modern constitutionalism. Originally, the Constitution maintained a state-centered,...

During the 1990s, political uncertainties in Turkey had negative effects that left the economy vulnerable to public and foreign debt due to high...

The remarkable transformation of Turkish civil-military relations since the AK Party’s rise to power has not led to total democratization in this...