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Small State Foreign Policy in Central Asia The Cases of
Small State Foreign Policy in Central Asia: The Cases of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan

This article examines and compares the foreign policy preferences of three small states in Central Asia, namely...

Monday, December 19, 2022

Start Small and Think Big to Rebuild the U S
Start Small and Think Big to Rebuild the U.S.-Turkey Relationship

The U.S.-Turkey bilateral relationship has been key to the success of NATO and the transatlantic community. However, due...

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Understanding Eurasia in Multiple Perspectives
Understanding Eurasia in Multiple Perspectives

The three works reviewed in this article address Eurasia in different periods and different areas of concentration. Each...

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Building States and Markets Enterprise Development in Central Asia
Building States and Markets, Enterprise Development in Central Asia

Gül Berna Özcan’s Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia is a welcome addition to the...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Sovereignty After Empire Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia
Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia

The demise of empires left a powerful and perplexing legacy for successor states in the Middle East and Central Asia....

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Lost Enlightenment Central Asia s Golden Age from the Arab
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

Furthermore, while Central Asia’s urban centers were, as Starr illustrates, already occupied with science to a certain...

Monday, July 10, 2017

Turkey s Comeback to Central Asia
Turkey’s Comeback to Central Asia

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey emerged as an influential player in the Muslim and ethnically Turkic...

Monday, October 1, 2018

Uzbekistan as a Gateway for Turkey s Return to Central
Uzbekistan as a Gateway for Turkey’s Return to Central Asia

After two decades of downhill diplomacy, Turkey and Uzbekistan have pledged to deepen bilateral ties in years to come....

Monday, October 1, 2018

Editor's Note Fall 2018
Editor's Note | Fall 2018

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

Friday, December 7, 2018


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