Clash or "Alliance of Civilizations"?
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Summer 2009
The Turkish political scene did not witness a profound change with the local elections of March 2009. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) continued its strong electoral performance and maintained its status as the most popular political force.
Commentaries
In the foreseeable future, the international system will become one of multipolarity. This new...
The Road Map to normalization of bilateral Armenian-Turkish relations announced in April 2009 has...
Turkish media frequently employ the term “White Turks” to describe the Turkish cultural elite....
Iran’s elections have historically managed factional conflict without altering the institutional...
Is Islam particularly inimical to modernity, and the two are never to be reconciled? Many...
Articles
The Turkish proposal of a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform (CSCP), and its impact on...
The international community is worried about the security implications of Iran’s nuclear...
Barack Obama’s inauguration as America’s new president has been welcomed as opening a ‘new era’...
Ahmet Davutoğlu was appointed Turkish foreign minister on May 1, 2009. Chief advisor to the...
This article examines how the Turks’ views of the European Union align with notions of a...
The Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) initiative emerged from debates around the “clash of...
This study examines the possible contributions of the critical perspectives and conceptual...
This article asks why Turkey recently adopted the emerging international norm of...
Book Reviews
No other President of Iran has had comparable air time on international media outlets than...
This book is a rich and deeply engaging study of comparative travel and political theory....
Anatoly Golitsyn’s New Lies for Old was published in 1984, when ‘Gorby’ was emerging. The book...
Readers might expect Tormented by History to be a new contribution to the vast literature of...
Ruth Mandel’s brilliant work entitled Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship...
Turkey between Democracy and Militarism: Post Kemalist Perspectives” provides a comprehensive...
Since the 1980s, religious parties have enjoyed electoral success in a range of countries,...