The Turkish proposal of a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform (CSCP), and its impact on existing EU initiatives covering the same region,...

The international community is worried about the security implications of Iran’s nuclear activities. Although it has been argued that Iran is very...

Barack Obama’s inauguration as America’s new president has been welcomed as opening a ‘new era’ in Turkey’s relations with the United States. May...

Ahmet Davutoğlu was appointed Turkish foreign minister on May 1, 2009. Chief advisor to the Turkish prime minister since 2002, Davutoglu is known...

This article examines how the Turks’ views of the European Union align with notions of a center-periphery cleavage in Turkish politics....

The Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) initiative emerged from debates around the “clash of civilizations.” Based on this I will argue that the...

This study examines the possible contributions of the critical perspectives and conceptual frameworks of the Conflict Resolution field to address...

This article asks why Turkey recently adopted the emerging international norm of inter-civilizational dialogue as one of its foreign policy...

The purpose of this essay is to examine the emergence and rise of a new “social group,” or what I call a “conservative elite” in Turkey. By using...

Partial and limited opening of authoritarian political systems in Turkey and Egypt created new democratic opportunities for Islamists to...

Nicolas Sarkozy’s election as France’s president in May 2007 has marked a rhetorical change in the foreign policy of Paris and has made the French...

Bilateral relations between Turkey and Israel nosedived after the recent Israeli operation in Gaza, and both countries tested each other’s red...

This essay analyzes the relationship between Turkey and Israel against the background of the AKP ascent to power in Turkey in 2002 and the invasion...

Despite the negative atmosphere it created for both sides, the Davos case should be seen as an opportunity to revisit the various aspects of...

The Cyprus tragedy of the past and the Iraq predicament of our times bear striking similarities. Cyprus of the 1960s and 1970s is not too far from...

This article examines the December 2, 2007 State Duma elections in Russia in terms of their significance and implications for Russian politics. The...

This article discusses Kosovo’s independence from a framework of political and legal perspectives and assesses regional and global responses to the...

The article reviews the relevance of soft power for the case of Turkey, and assesses whether Turkey does have meaningful soft power potential. or...

Turkey has been traditionally viewed mostly as a hard power in the Middle East, due to its military and economic strength. In recent years,...

Soft power is based on attraction and the ability to persuade others to further one's goals. The key sources of soft power are said to derive from...

This article builds on the insights of critical approaches to the study of power and seeks to lay bare the poverty of power analysis in mainstream...

This article analyzes the identity dimension of EU-Turkey relations from the constructivist perspective in international relations theory. It...

Minorities have always been the subject of academic, journalistic and popular research in Turkey. The general trend of most of these analyses to...

This article aims to show how exchanges.between religion and secularism, Islam and democracy and cross-cultural relations over many years have...