Civil-Military Relations | Insight Turkey

The present study seeks to answer the following questions: How was it possible that a state such as Turkey, which had...

Sunday, April 1, 2012

What explains the rise and fall of military tutelage over Turkish democracy? This article argues that the military’s...

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Ali Balcı’s Militarist State Discourse in Turkey is an adaption of the second chapter of his PhD thesis that surveyed the...

Monday, April 1, 2013

In the absence of a politically influential aristocracy and the entrepreneurial middle class, the political and economic...

Monday, April 1, 2013

Egypt’s democratization efforts require domestic and international considerations: Domestically, the country must focus on...

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

The Gladio Scandal in Europe and, more recently, Turkey’s Ergenekon trials highlight the importance of hidden power...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

How did unbalanced civil-military relations affect democratization and political violence trends in the Middle East and...

Thursday, October 1, 2015

In this research I examine the effect of the military on Syrian politics and the uprising of 2011. I consider the...

Friday, April 1, 2016

On the night of the July 15th coup attempt in Turkey both social and conventional media played important roles. Rather...

Friday, July 1, 2016