For many decades, the Arab despots would serve the Western interests in the region in return for a Western disregard to democracy policies in their...

Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the so-called ‘Turkish model’ has become a key ingredient of the discourse of democratization in the Middle...

The article analyses the use of Ottoman past as a central theme in Turkish politics since the 1960s. It discusses how the revivalist discourse...

The developments in early 2013 generated expectations that the almost three decades old armed conflict between the Turkish state and PKK would...

In 2009 the Turkish government launched a novel initiative to tackle the Kurdish question. The initiative soon ran into deadlock, only to be...

After a major wave of democratization over the last decade, the stalemate in Turkey’s reform process and the rising concerns about ‘creeping...

Turkish foreign policy under the AK Party government has long drawn scrutiny from a wide range of analysts. The Syrian uprising has raised the...

In the absence of a politically influential aristocracy and the entrepreneurial middle class, the political and economic transformations in...

As Egypt charts a path to democracy, it confronts the legacy of 60 years of dictatorship. President Morsi faces an ongoing power struggle with...

Policy implications aside, assessing the EU’s involvement in the Mediterranean region necessitates a reconsideration of the impact and limits of...

This paper traces the changes to the domestic politics of Arab states following the 2011 uprisings and places them in a continuum depending on the...

The AK Party seeks to respond to four challenges stemming from three confrontations (Islamism, Kemalism, and regional balance of power) that are...

There have been almost regular attempts to declare the “end of Islamism” or “the end of political Islam.” Since the late 1980s, many observers have...

This article examines how the European elite views new parameters of Turkey’s increasing activism in the Middle East with special emphasis on...

With decisions about to be made on major pipeline projects, Turkey could become a vital component of the so-called southern gas corridor. Turkey is...

Cyprus has been hit hard by economic misfortunes recently, but now has a big opportunity to develop significant offshore gas resources. However,...

This article explores the causes and dynamics impacting the development of the EU`s security policy on Africa. The changing global structure in...

This paper discusses the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, within the context of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. What progress has been made since...

A few years after Turkey and Iran appeared to be growing closer, the pendulum has swung back and the two sides are increasingly at odds. The...

This article analyzes the development of Turkish-Saudi Arabian relations from the beginning of the struggle of the al-Saud family to gain power in...

This article examines whether the presence of imperial legacies in Central and South-eastern Europe affects their foreign policy stances and public...

What happens when an ideological movement whose raison d’être is to challenge the existing political system and government structure, and one that...

This article examines Islamism in its historical trajectory as well as its current standing and likely evolution. After pointing out to the...

The political and economic success of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) has generated extensive discussion about the extent to which...