Decoding Turkey's Foreign Policy
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Winter 2014
The end of the Cold War ushered in a new era, leading to the transformation of the international system and shifting the power balances among regional and global actors. Not only have the conventional practices of international relations and foreign policy making undergone a radical change but also emerging actors began to exert their influence in regional and global economic and political reconfigurations not previously seen.
Commentaries
The end of the Cold War marked the end of adversary patterns of alignment in the Middle East, and...
The Turkish-Kurdish peace process began in early 2013 and stalled soon after. During that period,...
Fire is both the symbol of revolution and its most potent weapon. Much like the American...
States often fall out or collaborate over issues to do with international migration whilst...
During the months leading up to July 3, 2013, the state of Egypt mirrored that of Chile 40 years...
Surveying today’s Middle Eastern and North African landscape offers few straws of hope. Iran’s...
Articles
The transformation of Turkish foreign policy has become a closely followed subject, fueling...
Critical geopolitics, which is a relatively new field of study for scholars of international...
This article provides a general overview of Turkey’s relations with the Western Balkans during...
During the last decade international development assistance became an indispensable aspect of...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the social and political causes of the Gezi protests, and...
The Gladio Scandal in Europe and, more recently, Turkey’s Ergenekon trials highlight the...
This paper examines the position of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) during the Arab...
Book Reviews
While dynasties rose and fell in the geographical area now called “China,” in this book Yuri...
In the last decade, the world has witnessed an unprecedented development of many countries. The...
Recent scholarship in the sociology of religion has produced fresh perspectives on the...
Near the end of this interesting book, the author characterizes his final chapter as “a series of...
Multiple Modernities and Postsecular Societies brings together the two recently much discussed...
There is a strong tendency among public commentators and many scholars to view nationalism as a...
David Burrell’s Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology explores key theological topics of the...
Ethnic and religious minorities – and concomitant majorities – do not just exist sui generis....
This little memoir, first published in Italian in 1987, is an account of a life well lived. A...
Beyond Turkey's Borders is based on Banu Şenay’s PhD dissertation, which is an ethnographic study...