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Issues | Terror-Free Türkiye and the Region: The Making of a New Model
- Fall 2025 / Volume 27, Number 4
Terror-Free Türkiye and the Region: The Making of a New Model
Editor's Note
Editor's Note | Fall 2025
Taken together, the contributions in this issue situate the idea of a “Terror-Free Türkiye” within a broader intellectual and geopolitical context, highlighting the deep interconnections between security, sovereignty, diplomacy, and social legitimacy. They underscore that durable peace demands not only military measures but also political participation and institutional renewal. We hope readers will find in these analyses a rigorous and reflective contribution to ongoing debates on security, conflict resolution, and the prospects for a more stable future in Türkiye and the region.
Commentaries
In Türkiye, İHH has been particularly engaged with the Kurdish issue, a long-standing political,...
The new political process in Türkiye, initiated by Devlet
Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist...
This commentary explains the basis on which the Turkish authorities
launched a new political...
Articles
Türkiye and Italy share a long-standing relationship rooted in historical,
political, economic,...
Conference diplomacy is one of the most important phenomena in
the history of modern...
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Eastern Mediterranean
region has been the scene of...
India’s foreign policy demonstrates a marked evolution, characterized
by closer ties with the...
Since the establishment of the Syrian–Iranian alliance in 1980, Iran
has been able, with the...
This article examines the dissolution of terrorist organizations in a comparative perspective...
China’s economic rise in the 21st century has prompted analyses of how this ascent will be...
Formed of two major parts, the first part of this article investigates the limits of engagement...
This article explores the complex landscape of decision-making in
the foreign policy of...
Celal Nuri (1882-1936) asserts that “international law is defective.”
Through Celal Nuri’s...
Review Article
Defying Small-State Orthodoxy: The UAE’s Outlier Trajectory toward Middle-Power Status
By analyzing the three works above, this article argues that the United Arab Emirates’ post-2011 transformation cannot be explained within the behavioral boundaries traditionally assigned to small states. Rather than conforming to the passivity, risk aversion, or alliance dependency that the small-state literature prescribes, the UAE has demonstrated a sustained pattern of strategic autonomy, assertive interventionism, and identity-driven statecraft.
Book Reviews
In A Climate of Truth: The Science, the Solutions, and the Road to a Better Future, Mike...
Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran: Comparing China and India’s Engagement
In an era where Western-centric soft power strategies dominate global politics, the soft power...
Willis’s study fills a crucial gap in the literature with its comprehensive examination of the...
Hidden Hate: The Resilience of Xenophobia by Mathew Creighton revalues xenophobia as a dynamic...
The book Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey: Perspective from Actors by Emrah...