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Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Fall 2014
International and mobility migration is of growing magnitude, of growing economic importance and of growing international concern. It cuts across diverse policy domains and is as much a matter for economic, trade and labor policy, foreign and development policy, and welfare and integration policy as it is for public order and security policy.1 It is also of concern for international, regional, national and local governance in that it is dealt by UN agencies such as the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as well as other intergovernmental organisations such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM), regional organisations or processes as the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and the Budapest or Prague processes hosted by ICMPD.
Commentaries
This article analyzes Turkish-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War (1992-2014) from a...
Turkey’s foreign policy in Africa has achieved more than what initially has been planned as...
Despite the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, early presidential and parliamentary...
At the conclusion of the summer 2014 Gaza War Israel, Hamas, and the P.A. agreed to meet in...
The growing flow of international migration to Turkey has serious implications for the social,...
This article is a summary of the study “Syrians in Turkey: Social Acceptance and Integration,”...
Turkey has long been a transit site for irregular migration, and policy makers and advocates have...
Articles
This article argues that Turkey is going through a paradigm transition regarding its migration...
Turkey in the recent years has become a destination for individuals from various regions,...
As a country in transition from emigration to immigration, Turkey hosts many diverse migrant...
In conversation with recent work on transnational social fields, this article explores how...
Many Afghans, often male, in Pakistan are migrating (again) and increasingly toward ‘new’...
This article discusses Turkey’s increasing role as a country of immigration by using the case...
This paper discusses EU-Turkey relations with a specific reference to regional developments in...
Review Article
Testing Times in Turco-American Relations
Turkey’s relations with the United States have seldom been at such a low point. In late February 2014, 84 former lawmakers, ambassadors and national security advisers sent an open letter to Barack Obama in protest against what they saw as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian policies that significantly compromised the rule of law. A month later, the American government distanced itself from Erdoğan’s repeated request to forcibly repatriate Islamic scholar Fetullah Gülen to Turkey. Such moves are symptomatic of a U.S. presidency that does not want to involve itself too much in Turkey’s affairs and thereby fuel Erdoğan’s complaints that the West wants to harm him. In any case, criticism from Washington would have little effect on his policies.
Book Reviews
The Soviet Union, which has two contradictory definitions (“Prison of Peoples” and “Free...
Robert O. Freedman’s edited volume, Israel and the United States: Six Decades of U.S.-Israeli...
The relationship between Islam and foreign policy has become the subject of a number of volumes...
The use of the concept of agency in relation to Africa’s foreign relations has, up to now, been...
This book is written as part of the series on “Modern Architectures in History.” Yet, it covers...
Democracy, Islam and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet Kuru and Alfred Stepan, decribes the...
The discussion of China’s growing prominence in international life has attracted the increasing...
Muslims in Modern Turkey: Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals...
The recent book edited by A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and...
Recently, there has been a growing body of literature on the multifaceted relationship between...