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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

Articles

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...

Promised Lands The British and the Ottoman Middle East

Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East

Book Reviews

Promised Land is an exhaustive work that focuses on the often neglected early British encounter in the Middle East. Though the vast amount of...

Imperial Resilience The Great War s End Ottoman Longevity and

Imperial Resilience: The Great War’s End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations

Book Reviews

One of the ultimate matters the book makes the reader reconsider is that one cannot think of the Anatolian independence struggle independently of...

EU-Turkey Relations A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy

EU-Turkey Relations: A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy?

Book Reviews

This book, which analyzes the EU’s foreign policy between the years 2014-2019 and its relations with Türkiye, contains positive aspects as well as...

EU-Turkey Relations A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy

EU-Turkey Relations: A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy?

Book Reviews

This book, which analyzes the EU’s foreign policy between the years 2014-2019 and its relations with Türkiye, contains positive aspects as well as...

Insights into Türkiye s Technology Development Journey

Insights into Türkiye’s Technology Development Journey

Commentaries

Türkiye, an emerging economy, has been attempting to improve its socioeconomic strength through the promotion of research and development (R&D),...

Strategic Communication and Policies of Türkiye

Strategic Communication and Policies of Türkiye

Commentaries

Since the establishment of the Republic, Türkiye has systematically conducted communication activities to proclaim its own theses to the national...

Truth Is a Human Right Türkiye s Stance on the

Truth Is a Human Right: Türkiye’s Stance on the Fight against Disinformation

Commentaries

We are experiencing the rise of unprecedented opportunities as a result of the digital revolution, but regrettably this has also been accompanied...

Turkey between the United States and Russia Surfing on the

Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the Edge

Book Reviews

Turkey between the United States and Russia distinguishes itself from other studies in the literature by simultaneously considering tripartite...

EU Turkey and Counter-Terrorism Fighting the PKK and ISIS

EU, Turkey, and Counter-Terrorism: Fighting the PKK and ISIS

Book Reviews

The EU-Türkiye related literature mostly concentrates on the EU’s expansion, its conditionality on Türkiye’s democratization, and the strategic...

EU Turkey and Counter-Terrorism Fighting the PKK and ISIS

EU, Turkey, and Counter-Terrorism: Fighting the PKK and ISIS

Book Reviews

The EU-Türkiye related literature mostly concentrates on the EU’s expansion, its conditionality on Türkiye’s democratization, and the strategic...

Between Empire and Nation Muslim Reform in the Balkans

Between Empire and Nation: Muslim Reform in the Balkans

Book Reviews

Between Empire and Nation provides a coherent understanding of the events, the people, intellectual ideas, and initiatives that defined the reform...

The Faces of Contemporary Populism in Western Europe and the

The Faces of Contemporary Populism in Western Europe and the US

Book Reviews

Making a remarkable contribution to understanding various degrees of contemporary populism, it helps to understand how populism as an ideology is...

Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society The

Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society: The Case of Natural Gas

Book Reviews

The book provides major contributions to the literature, including theoretical and empirical. In the literature geopolitics, economics, and...

Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society The

Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society: The Case of Natural Gas

Book Reviews

The book provides major contributions to the literature, including theoretical and empirical. In the literature geopolitics, economics, and...

Reconsidering EU Actorness in Changing Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean

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

Articles

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

COVID-19 Crisis and EU Liberal Values versus National Interest

COVID-19 Crisis and EU: Liberal Values versus National Interest

Commentaries

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, a great question arose about the possibility of applying liberal ideas in international politics and...

Turkish-Russian Relations Prospects and Challenges

Turkish-Russian Relations: Prospects and Challenges

Book Reviews

Although the book promises an exciting contribution to the literature on Turkish-Russian relations, it remains inadequate in fulfilling its aims...

Serbia and the War in Ukraine

Serbia and the War in Ukraine

Commentaries

The war in Ukraine has created a situation in which the Republic of Serbia may see an opportunity to take up some unfinished business; for this...

The Proliferation of Combat Drones in Civil and Interstate Conflicts

The Proliferation of Combat Drones in Civil and Interstate Conflicts: The Case of Türkiye and Azerbaijan

Articles

Recent developments in conflict zones show the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or combat drones and how they transform and shape...

The Metaverse Diplomacy A Future Vision for Türkiye

The Metaverse Diplomacy: A Future Vision for Türkiye

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One of the critical questions for the future of the Metaverse is whether it will be global and singular –or multiple, company or country based....

The Relationship between Cultural Power and Education in Light of

The Relationship between Cultural Power and Education in Light of the Development of Education in Türkiye over the Last Two Decades

Commentaries

Over the last 20 years, Türkiye’s education system has undergone a period of transformation. The process of universalization from primary to higher...

Türkiye s Climate Policy Aligned with International Climate Politics

Türkiye’s Climate Policy: Aligned with International Climate Politics

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The aim of this article is to assess Türkiye’s national climate policy framework within the context of international climate change negotiations....

Türkiye s Water Security Policy Energy Agriculture and Transboundary Issues

Türkiye’s Water Security Policy: Energy, Agriculture, and Transboundary Issues

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Water security refers to the availability of adequate quantities and qualities of water for societal needs and resilient ecosystems in the context...

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