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The Geopolitics of Support for Turkey s EU Accession A

The Geopolitics of Support for Turkey’s EU Accession: A View from Lithuania

Why does Lithuania support Turkey’s accession to the European Union? The article analyzes some of the key domestic factors and the strategic...

The EU s Rhetorical Entrapment in Enlargement Reconsidered Why Hasn

The EU’s “Rhetorical Entrapment” in Enlargement Reconsidered: Why Hasn’t It Worked for Turkey?

This article analyzes the EU’s December 2004 Brussels decision regarding membership talks with Turkey. While the Brussels Council launched...

Survival Strategies and Diplomatic Tools The Kurdistan Region s Foreign

Survival Strategies and Diplomatic Tools: The Kurdistan Region’s Foreign Policy Outlook

The Kurds were late to the idea of nationalism in the 20th century, and when the borders were drawn in the region they became the largest stateless...

Democracy or Partition Future Scenarios for the Kurds of Iraq

Democracy or Partition: Future Scenarios for the Kurds of Iraq

Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kurdish politicians were involved in Baghdad governments, and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)...

Turkey the US and the KRG Moving Parts and the

Turkey, the US and the KRG: Moving Parts and the Geopolitical Realities

In a remarkable turnaround, Turkey and the Kurdish Regional Government have recently emerged as close partners in a region increasingly...

The Applicability of the Turkish Model to Morocco The Case

The Applicability of the “Turkish Model” to Morocco: The Case of the Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD)

The “Turkish model,” in the form of a marriage between moderate Islam and democracy, the AKP’s electoral success and the economic growth witnessed...

The AKP Model and Tunisia s al-Nahda From Convergence to

The “AKP Model” and Tunisia’s al-Nahda: From Convergence to Competition?

More than a year after the start of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolts, the question of how political Islam will return to regional politics is...

Turkey and the Arab Spring Between Ethics and Self-Interest

Turkey and the Arab Spring: Between Ethics and Self-Interest

Turkey redefined its geographical security environment over the last decade by deepening its engagement with neighboring regions, especially with...

Turkey between Environmental Protection and Energy Security A Regional Perspective

Turkey between Environmental Protection and Energy Security: A Regional Perspective

Today, states not only find it necessary to secure energy supplies but also to address environmental threats due to climate change, decrease in...

America s Asia-Pacific Strategy and Turkish-American Partnership

America’s Asia-Pacific Strategy and Turkish-American Partnership

The debate on the future of the Turkish-American partnership has puzzled scholars in recent years due to its constant fluctuations. In the first...

Rationalization of Turkey-Iran Relations Prospects and Limits

Rationalization of Turkey-Iran Relations: Prospects and Limits

This article examines Turkish-Iranian relations in the 2000s, when the two countries initiated an unprecedented rapprochement. It argues that...

An Unfulfilled Opportunity for Reconciliation Israel and Turkey during the

An Unfulfilled Opportunity for Reconciliation: Israel and Turkey during the Arab Spring

2011 brought an opportunity for Israel and Turkey to mend their bi-lateral relations. The re-election of Erdoğan in June 2011, coupled with the...

The Changing Dynamics of Turkey s Relations with Israel An

The Changing Dynamics of Turkey’s Relations with Israel: An Analysis of ‘Securitization’

The present study seeks to answer the following questions: How was it possible that a state such as Turkey, which had until then pursued a...

The Political Origins of the Greek Crisis Domestic Failures and

The Political Origins of the Greek Crisis: Domestic Failures and the EU Factor

This article argues that the origins of the Greek malaise are primarily political rather than economic and rooted in the delay, postponement, and...

Refining the Story of the Financial Crises in Europe and the USA

A significant amount of research has already been made about the financial crisis. But a midterm primer is nevertheless necessary; it is critical...

The Rise and Fall of Military Tutelage in Turkey Fears

The Rise and Fall of Military Tutelage in Turkey: Fears of Islamism, Kurdism, and Communism

What explains the rise and fall of military tutelage over Turkish democracy? This article argues that the military’s civilian allies, particularly...

The Trajectory of Left-Liberalism in Turkey and Its Nemesis The

The Trajectory of Left-Liberalism in Turkey and Its Nemesis: The Great Rupture in the Turkish Left

This article investigates the unique trajectory of Turkish (left-) liberalism which emerged first as an intra-left polemic and left-revisionism in...

Turkey in the Balkans Taking a Broader View

Turkey in the Balkans: Taking a Broader View

Turkey’s activism in former Yugoslavia is a continuation of the country’s post-Cold War strategy in the broader context of South East Europe. It is...

Heading Towards the Defining Moment in Cyprus: Public Opinion vs Realities on the Ground

This paper compares what the two Cypriot leaders have been trying to accomplish through the peace negotiations with what public opinion on both...

Cyprus A Last Window of Opportunity

Cyprus: A Last Window of Opportunity?

The basic premise of this article is that conditions have ripened for an overall settlement of the Cyprus conflict, provided a rational approach...

Monarchical Pluralism or De-democratization Actors and Choices in Jordan

Monarchical Pluralism or De-democratization: Actors and Choices in Jordan

This paper argues that the purpose of democratization in Jordanian politics is not only a political co-optation policy to cope with the negative...

The Constitutional Challenges in Post-Mubarak Egypt

The Constitutional Challenges in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Writing a democratic constitution is the main task in the transition from authoritarianism to democracy. There are many opposing views about many...

Turkey s Search for a New Constitution

Turkey’s Search for a New Constitution

The article analyzes the historical roots and the current nature of the constitutional crisis in Turkey. The Constitution of 1982 strongly reflects...

A Quantitative Analysis of Turkey’s 2011 Elections

The changes in Turkey’s political landscape over the past decade have been quite dramatic. In this study, we present a quantitative analysis of the...

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