Browsing by Keywords "Foreign policy"
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Azerbaijan's foreign policy and challenges for energy security
(Middle East Institute, 2009)This article examines Azerbaijan's foreign policy by demonstrating the interplay between the oil-led development process and early post-independence regional conflicts that enforced a Western orientation in the country's ... -
Between security and liberalization: decoding Turkey's struggle with the PKK
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2002)This article identifies the dynamics of the national security syndrome and the pendulum swing between security and liberalization that are embedded in the Turkish political system. It then explores how these are reflected ... -
The changing dynamics of Turkey-Israel relations: a structural realist account
(Routledge, 2010-07)This article tries to examine the changing dynamics of Turkey's relations with Israel in recent years from a structural realist point of view. The main argument is that both the establishment of strong strategic relations ... -
China's soft power strategy vis-a-vis increasing threat perceptions: policies and limitations
(Ahmet Yesevi Universitesi, 2013)China is recently being perceived both as a threat and an opportunity with its booming economy and increasing political visibility on a global scale. Perceived as a land of opportunities in economic terms, China cannot be ... -
Clash of discourses: the US national debate on relations with Haiti, 1789-2004
(Bilkent University, 2008)This dissertation is a historical-comparative analysis of the rhetorical forms and frames that have shaped United States-Haitian relations, departing from the predominantly action-oriented perspective of international ... -
Energy, security, and foreign policy
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Next to national defense, energy security has become a primary issue for the survival and wellbeing of both developed and developing nations. A review of the literature shows how concerns for energy security acquired a new ... -
EU foreign policy and ‘perceived coherence’: the case of Kosovo
(Routledge, 2018-10-11)To what extent has the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy been coherent in the Western Balkans? Moreover, is EU policy behaviour seen as coherent by local stakeholders? Such questions are of high significance regarding ... -
Europe and Turkey: Does religion matter?
(Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008)Ever since Claude Lévi-Strauss, a social anthropologist, introduced the term “l’égo et l’autre” it has become very fashionable to apply the “Self” and the “Other” to international affairs as well as to history. Shortly ... -
The evolution of the national security culture and the military in Turkey
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Examining leaders' orientations to structural constraints: Turkey's 1991 and 2003 Iraq war decisions
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017)Explanations of states' security decisions prioritise structural - systemic, institutional and cultural - constraints that characterise foreign security decisions as a function of external/international, domestic/institutional, ... -
Friends no more? the rise of Anti-American nationalism in Turkey
(Middle East Institute, 2010)This article examines the rise of anti-American nationalism in Turkey. While Turkish public opinion has developed strong views against a set of foreign policies furthered by the United States, recent findings allude to the ... -
The 'greater middle east' as a 'modern' geopolitical imagination in American foreign policy
(Routledge, 2010)This article aims at analysing how the September 11 terrorist attacks have caused the formation of a new geopolitical vision of an area called the 'Greater Middle East' and how this formation has led to changes in US foreign ... -
The impact of democratization on foreign policy the rise and fall of the Turkish-Israeli alliance
(Bilkent University, 2012)Globalization is affecting state behavior in different ways. The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which changes in the domestic structures of torn states due to democratization and decentralization and ... -
Körfez Savaşı Türkiye dış politikası
(Bilkent University, 2018)Saddam yönetimindeki Irak, 25 Ağustos 1990’da Kuveyt’e saldırmış ve kısa sürede ülkede hakimiyet kurmuştur. Başta ABD olmak üzere küresel ve bölgesel hemen tüm güçler, çeşitli stratejik ve ekonomik sebeplerle işgale sert ... -
The metamorphosis of metaphors of vision: "bridging" Turkey's location, role and identity after the end of the cold war
(2009)During the Cold War, "buffer" or "bastion" seemed a popular metaphor to describe Turkey. After the Cold War, "bridge," (and, to some extent, the "crossroad") metaphor started to dominate the Turkish foreign policy ... -
Multiple dualities: seeking the patterns in Iran’s foreign policy
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation, 2019)As one of the most significant actors of the region, Iran’s interactions with great powers (as well as regional powers and non-state actors) have come under scrutiny. This article adopts an historical account and suggests ... -
The Nabucco Project: implications for the EU strategic energy review
(Notre Europe, 2010)Energy is a key issue of this year’s European political agenda. Article 194 (1) of the Lisbon Treaty states that the Union energy policy will aim – amongst others things – to “ensure the functioning of the energy market,” ... -
New labour's ethical dimension: Statistical trends in Tony Blair's foreign policy speeches
(2010)Debate has raged over the extent to which New Labour has succeeded in incorporating an ethical dimension in British foreign policy. The assumption has been that New Labour at least changed the context of foreign policy by ... -
“Only strong states can survive in Turkey's geography”: the uses of “geopolitical truths” in Turkey
(Pergamon Press, 2007)Following Critical Geopoliticians' re-formulation of geopolitics as discourse, this article historically traces, politically contextualizes, and empirically analyzes the linguistic practices as found in myriad actors' ... -
Oral history and the history of American foreign relations
(Oxford University Press, 1995-09)
