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In this paper, we first present a background to the watershed elections of 2018, describing the context preceding the...
Monday, October 1, 2018
The macroeconomic and financial stability orientation of AK Party governments, with their emphasis on fiscal discipline...
Saturday, April 1, 2017
This article explores the processes involved in the emergence of rival social imaginaries, as they develop in a cultural...
Friday, July 1, 2016
The AK Party seeks to respond to four challenges stemming from three confrontations (Islamism, Kemalism, and regional...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
This article examines how the European elite views new parameters of Turkey’s increasing activism in the Middle East with...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
In the absence of a politically influential aristocracy and the entrepreneurial middle class, the political and economic...
Monday, April 1, 2013
Turkish foreign policy has changed substantially within the last decade. Even though its relationship with the West still...
Monday, July 1, 2013
Turkey’s 1982 Constitution does not reflect the values of modern constitutionalism. Originally, the Constitution...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
During the 1990s, political uncertainties in Turkey had negative effects that left the economy vulnerable to public and...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The remarkable transformation of Turkish civil-military relations since the AK Party’s rise to power has not led to total...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The AK Party has been a leading reform actor with particular emphasis on education. AK Party governments implemented...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
This essay interprets the Gezi Park protests that began as a local resistance to government plans to level a public park...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Turkey is achieved a viable combination of Islam, democracy and development. After prolonged periods of political...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The transformation of Turkish foreign policy has become a closely followed subject, fueling important debates on the...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Critical geopolitics, which is a relatively new field of study for scholars of international relations, seeks to...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Like all long political years, the year 2014 did not begin on January 1st; rather, 2014 politically began at the end of...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The March 2014 local elections in Turkey did not drastically alter electoral balances in Turkey. The AK Party maintained...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The context of and the meaning conferred upon the local elections led it to be fought in a referandum-like atmosphere....
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Ahead of the 2014 local elections, the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), developed an aggressive...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
One of the fiercest electoral battles fought in the Turkish political history, the March 30, 2014 local elections yielded...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
As the Arab Spring unfolds, a new power configuration is emerging in the Middle East. Turkey is at the center of the new...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
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