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Turkish Foreign Policy in the Face of Regional and Global

Turkish Foreign Policy in the Face of Regional and Global Challenges

This article essentially posits that Türkiye took advantage of the deepening competition between global powers under the Justice and Development...

Integration Dynamics The Case of Iraqi Refugees in Syria

Integration Dynamics: The Case of Iraqi Refugees in Syria

Civil wars, foreign interventions, and political instability in the Middle East have caused a mass refugee influx since the end of the Cold War....

Conflict in the Neo-Colonial Order in Africa The Case of

Conflict in the Neo-Colonial Order in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia-Tigray

This article analyzes the Tigray crisis in Ethiopia based on the policies of global and regional powers in the context of the African neo-colonial...

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

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

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

A Comparative Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy on the Azerbaijan-Armenia

A Comparative Analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy on the Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflicts (1988-2020)

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the relative stability that prevailed in the Caucasus region during the Cold War period dissolved into...

Endless EU Facilitated - Mediated Dialogue Between Kosovo and Serbia

Endless EU Facilitated - Mediated Dialogue Between Kosovo and Serbia

The dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia facilitated and mediated by the EU and strong U.S. support is a critical part of sustainable peace,...

Religion Armed Conflict and the Quest for Secular Mapping Martyrdom

Religion, Armed Conflict and the Quest for “Secular”: Mapping Martyrdom in Kashmir

Religion is bivalent. It can be argued that religion is an instrument of peace and equivocally the role of religion in conflicts can be voiced as...

Israel s COVID-19 Diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Europe

Israel’s COVID-19 Diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Europe

Israel’s aid initiatives have historically been facilitated through the Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV). However, the...

Syrian Women in the Turkish Labor Market Understanding Their Labor

Syrian Women in the Turkish Labor Market: Understanding Their Labor Supply Behavior

This study explores the various dynamics that Syrian women under temporary protection in Türkiye encounter in the labor market. By conducting a...

Key Issues in Turkish Politics Before the 2023 Elections

Key Issues in Turkish Politics Before the 2023 Elections

In 2023, Türkiye will celebrate the centennial of the establishment of the republic and will also hold a crucial election. The 2023 elections are...

Reclaiming the Umma from the Margins The Case of Türkiye

Reclaiming the Umma from the Margins: The Case of Türkiye’s HÜDA-PAR

This paper investigates the relationship between an ethnic Muslim minority identity and transnational Muslim solidarity through the case study of...

Governmental System Discussions Ahead of the 2023 Elections Why the

Governmental System Discussions Ahead of the 2023 Elections: Why the Nation Alliance’s Proposal for Semi-Presidentialism is not a Viable Option

Ahead of the 2023 elections, one of the top items on Türkiye’s political agenda will relate to the different systems of government that various...

Increasing Realism in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Post-Davutoğlu Era

Increasing Realism in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Post-Davutoğlu Era

This article compares Turkish foreign policy in the post-Davutoğlu era with the previous period and analyzes the changes and continuities in these...

Small State Foreign Policy in Central Asia The Cases of

Small State Foreign Policy in Central Asia: The Cases of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan

This article examines and compares the foreign policy preferences of three small states in Central Asia, namely Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and...

Reconsidering EU Actorness in Changing Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean

Reconsidering ‘EU Actorness’ in Changing Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The discovery of hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean reshuffled the existing foreign policies, increased the region’s geopolitical...

COVID-19 in Palestine Nationalism and Sovereignty

COVID-19 in Palestine: Nationalism and Sovereignty

The article examines the early spread of COVID-19 in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) in light of nationalism and sovereignty. For...

Israel and the Syrian Crisis Ardent Desire and Restrain Risk

Israel and the Syrian Crisis: Ardent Desire and Restrain Risk

This article addresses the strategic Israeli attitude concerning the Syrian crisis, linking the historical conceptualisation of Syria and its role...

Iran and the Gulf The Era of Hassan Rouhani

Iran and the Gulf: The Era of Hassan Rouhani

The paper utilizes the theory of neoclassical realism as its theoretical foundation to understand the relations between the Islamic Republic of...

Energy Supply Security and Artificial Intelligence Applications

Energy Supply Security and Artificial Intelligence Applications

There are various options and instruments to ensure energy security, which is very important in terms of accepting energy efficiency as a source of...

Digital Currencies and Monetary Policy in the New Era

Digital Currencies and Monetary Policy in the New Era

The centuries-old financial structure and the modern financial system are built on physical currencies. After the global financial crisis of...

Vaccine Diplomacy as a Form of Soft Power The Successful

Vaccine Diplomacy as a Form of Soft Power: The Successful Case of Türkiye

The coronavirus pandemic has been raging across the globe for more than two years, claiming over 6 million lives and severely upending daily...

Digitalization of Governments during the Pandemic The Case of Türkiye

Digitalization of Governments during the Pandemic: The Case of Türkiye

This study questions how the increasing digitalization of public administrations has been affected by the pandemic process with the rising use of...

The Operational Capacity of Turkish Intelligence within the Scope of

The Operational Capacity of Turkish Intelligence within the Scope of Use of High-Technology Products

This study evaluates the increasing operational capacity of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) within...

Türkiye in the Global Cybersecurity Arena Strategies in Theory and

Türkiye in the Global Cybersecurity Arena: Strategies in Theory and Practice

The threat of malicious actors is a growing fear among all cyberspace stakeholders, particularly states, who are primarily responsible for national...

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