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

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

China’s displacement of Russian economic influence in Central Asia is generating great interest in Western academic and policy circles, but this...

Libya, which ended the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has been dragged into another crisis. This study addresses the situation, by taking...

Over the past fifteen years, nation branding has become a popular subject of study, and a formative enterprise in the creation of national...

The OSCE has until now been the only security organization which directly participated in the effort to de-escalate the war in Eastern Ukraine. As...

Over the past few years, Turkey’s EU membership prospects have further deteriorated amid intensive political crisis between Brussels and Ankara....

On June 24, 2018, with a participation rate of more than 85 percent, Turkey elected its President and parliamentarians. While determining Turkey’s...

While the future of the transatlantic relations has been a serious question of concern since the end of the Cold War, the institutionalized...

Radical right wing parties have been increasingly effective in challenging and eroding this consensus, using a redemptive sovereigntist platform to...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operates under the names of the Democratic Union Party and the People’s Protection Units in Syria. The PKK is...

In late-March 2019 the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union. Will Brexit lead to Germany becoming the EU’s hegemon? The...

How people in member and candidate states are oriented toward the European Union –meaning, how well they know and how they evaluate the EU– is...

Near Abroad is a must-read book for scholars and other readers who are interested in better understanding the relationship between the U.S. and...

The election of the U.S. President Donald Trump played a key role in reigniting the Gulf crisis. The blockading quartet (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain...

Mahmood Monshipouri’s Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East: Youth, Technology, Human Rights and Foreign Policy fills the gap by providing a...

The repercussions of the Arab Spring and new polarization between Iran, Israel and the Gulf States means the Middle East faces multiple rivalries...

During the long years of the cold war, Turkey's foreign and security policies usually received little attention in the academic literature. Its...

This paper challenges the view that the AKP is an "Islamist Party" and "hardly a democratic opening." It puts forward the argument that the AKP's...

This article, based on a book published by SETA, looks at the attitudes of Turkish people towards what is conceived as the West and Western...

This paper attempts to evaluate the forces behind the Turkish-Greek rapprochement, its prospects and its limitations. In the first part, through an...

Turkey’s foreign policy needs a new orientation in the light of the new regional and global developments. As a major country in the midst of the...

Despite its unique geographical and cultural position between East and the West, Turkey, throughout its modern history, has followed a...

This article seeks to analyze identity discourses in Turkey and Germany in the wake of the end of the bipolar world order. The radical changes...