This issue of Insight Turkey aims at analyzing the above mentioned issues and provide to its readers a general framework of the most important and...

The Western Balkans has traditionally held vital geostrategic importance for European and transatlantic security. Ever since the 1990s, the EU and...

This paper aims to see whether there is a commercial and financial rivalry between Turkey and Germany in the Balkans by examining the export...

China’s investment in the Balkan region has been maintaining good momentum in recent years, with preferential investments being in the...

The present paper looks into the current policies of Russia in the Balkans. It argues that after a short period of withdrawal from the region,...

Economic upheaval in the post-revolutionary period, its ideological concerns, the lessons of the war with Iraq and the drive to assert regional...

In Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: Causes and Effects, Hakan Köni focuses on Turkish Political Islam’s (TPI) transformation in terms...

During the late 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, neo-liberalism first emerged as a reaction to the worldwide recession, and is associated with...

At no other time in the history of the world has the crisis in the global economy become a serious concern as it is currently the case. The promise...

Yemen and the Gulf States: The Making of a Crisis, an edited volume by Helen Lackner and Daniel Martin Varisco, provides six chapters presented in...

This paper argues that China’s strategy of engaging African countries through its stated “no questions asked” foreign policy could ultimately be...

This commentary provides insights into the evolving trajectories of China-Africa relations by drawing on a case study of the place of a strategic...

The institutions of “waqfs,” that is foundations, stand before us as an intermediate option between collectivist and individualistic societies....

This issue of Insight Turkey comes with a different format and brings to its readers two different topics that require special attention when we...

In late 2017, Turkey opened a facility to train the Somali National Army. Routinely described as a military base since, the move has caused...

International security theories generally identify economic power as the key determinant of military power, and thereby of security, but there is...

Using the case of Sino-Russian competition over Central Asian energy and transportation networks, this study asks why Russia has refrained from...

China’s displacement of Russian economic influence in Central Asia is generating great interest in Western academic and policy circles, but this...

Libya, which ended the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has been dragged into another crisis. This study addresses the situation, by taking...

Over the past few years, Turkey’s EU membership prospects have further deteriorated amid intensive political crisis between Brussels and Ankara....

The customs union is still one of the most concrete outcomes of Turkey’s gradual integration to the EU. However, due to changes in world trade, EU...

The last decade has witnessed the consolidation of the European Union as a cybersecurity actor. Many of these developments have, directly or...