The size and complexity of recent peacebuilding mandates have led scholars to liken these efforts to imperialism, but most are quick to dismiss any...

Fueled by the Iranian oil revenues, Tehran, under both the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979) and since 1979 the Islamic Republic of...

Malaysia began supporting the MNLF when the group emerged in the 1970s. In recent years, however, the relationship between Malaysia and the MNLF...

The institutions of “waqfs,” that is foundations, stand before us as an intermediate option between collectivist and individualistic societies....

In late 2017, Turkey opened a facility to train the Somali National Army. Routinely described as a military base since, the move has caused...

International security theories generally identify economic power as the key determinant of military power, and thereby of security, but there is...

Using the case of Sino-Russian competition over Central Asian energy and transportation networks, this study asks why Russia has refrained from...

Most studies define states as small, middle, or great in relation to the power of other states. However, how the capabilities of a particular...

Today the established cooperation between China and Kazakhstan has reached the strategic partnership level. Also, the two neighboring countries are...

In this paper, we first present a background to the watershed elections of 2018, describing the context preceding the elections. In order to...

The system of government in Turkey shifted from a parliamentary to an intrinsic presidential system, in which the president solely employs the...

This article analyzes the voting patterns in eastern Turkey for the June 24, 2018 elections and examines the cross-sectional and longitudinal...

This paper considers the impact of the possible relative decline of the U.S. and its engagement in the Middle East and the Gulf in particular. U.S....

To date the research of Orientalism in Russia did not present the whole mosaic palette of its competing schools and disciplines. The influential...

During its first two terms (2002-2012), AK Party adopted a range of constitutional democratization reforms connected with the EU accession process...

Over the past fifteen years, nation branding has become a popular subject of study, and a formative enterprise in the creation of national...

The OSCE has until now been the only security organization which directly participated in the effort to de-escalate the war in Eastern Ukraine. As...

This study attempts to analyze the peculiarity of the migration stories of the Muslims in Germany who have emigrated from Turkey. Each of the four...

This article argues that today, 17 years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it is even more important to look at the beginnings of, and to...

Over the past few years, Turkey’s EU membership prospects have further deteriorated amid intensive political crisis between Brussels and Ankara....

This paper evaluates qualitative and quantitative evidence of Muslims’ European identification in France, Austria and the Netherlands while the far...

Populist discourse is gaining more and more ground in Europe. As evidenced by the growing success of radical right wing parties, a ubiquitous right...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operates under the names of the Democratic Union Party and the People’s Protection Units in Syria. The PKK is...

Today, a number of European states’ policies on religion aim at creating a nationalized Islam. In many Western European countries, the Ministries...