Ayatollah Khomeini after the 1979 Revolution contemplated the promotion of Shia core doctrinal values in the Muslim world. A strategy to instill...

Turkish secularism called laiklik which derived from the French laïc term, was transferred from Frances’ laïcité in the late Ottoman period via the...

As far as the discussions on the Muslim world have been concerned with the process of secularization, a major focus has been the question of...

Moscow is extremely interested in keeping Iran in the sphere of its influence. First of all, Iran’s geostrategic position allows it to influence...

There seems to be a consensus within both Russian and European analytic communities as to the ultimate reason behind the dramatic deterioration of...

Turkey and Russia developed very close relations throughout the 2000s. Yet, their growing differences about the Syrian civil war dragged the two...

Following the fallout between Russia and the West, Moscow embarked on a strategy to make its energy industry a foreign policy tool. In this...

This work examines Russia’s security narratives on Islam. Using a social constructivist framework and employing securitization theory, this paper...

Among regional integration theories that have evolved since the 1960s, neo-functionalism remains one of the essential tools to understand why...

While controversies and debates proliferate about Trump's Presidency, there is little analysis of the context and factors leading to his rise and...

The often-used description in the American mainstream media and geopolitical literature of “North Korea’s nuclear aggression” is misleading. I...

In drafting its Middle East policy, the Trump administration appears to depart from the soft power rhetoric of the Obama years, seemingly favoring...

In Libya high hopes for change, experienced in 2012 and 2013 after Muammar Qaddafi was overthrown in 2011 by a civil rebellion following a 42-year...

Utilizing Gramsci’s conceptualization of hegemonic struggles through both coercive means of the state and also the production of consent in civil...

The main aim of this paper is to prove that religious communities can play a vital role in building peace and trust among conflict-divided...

Turkey has suffered from interventions and enforcements against its elected governments, on the average, in every decade. Against this background,...

The macroeconomic and financial stability orientation of AK Party governments, with their emphasis on fiscal discipline and the regulatory function...

Turkey-EU relations have historical significance in terms of politics, societal structures along with the longevity of Turkey’s EU accession...

This study analyzes the peace and reconciliation initiatives of the AK Party governments (2002 until 2017) to address the Kurdish Question, with a...

This article aims to evaluate the 15 years of leadership of the AK Party in terms of health and health policies using the Health System Framework...

The Ennahda Movement, whose foundations were laid in Tunisia at the beginning of the 1970s by Rached Ghannouchi and his friends, has continued its...

Egypt under President Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi appears committed to avoid falling into the contentious Sunni-Shia divide by reconfiguring its security...

In a time when our globalizing world is confronted by a deepening global turmoil, political instability and multiplying security threats have set...

This article argues that recent upheavals in Turkey’s domestic and regional dynamics – the transition to a more crisis-ridden foreign policy around...