Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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Transgovernmentalism Meets Security: Police Liaison Officers, Terrorism and Statist Transnationalism
(Wiley, 2010)Studies of transgovernmental activities have enhanced our understanding of changing global politics, but their claims have not been fully investigated with respect to the security realm. Therefore, this article first ... -
Alternative futures of the Middle East
(Elsevier, 2001-06)This paper investigates alternative futures of security in the Middle East in an attempt to discover a path that could take the region from an insecure past to a more secure future. Looking at five scenarios about the ... -
The Kurdish Issue in June 2011 Elections: Continuity or Change in Turkey’s Democratization?
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06)This article analyzes the Kurdish issue in various aspects before the June 2011 elections. The main research questions include what constitutes the major grievances of the Kurds; how the ongoing conflict is framed as ... -
The Strategic Context of the UAE’s Nuclear Project: A Model for the Region?
(Wiley, 2014)When the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) issued a policy statement in April 20081 indicating that the country was seriously considering developing a civilian nuclear-power program, it set the region and the ... -
Security and Citizenship in Global South: In/securing citizens in early Republican Turkey (1923-1946)
(SAGE Publications, 2014)The relationship between security and citizenship is more complex than media portrayals based on binary oppositions seem to suggest (included/excluded, security/insecurity), or mainstream approaches to International ... -
Trust in World Politics: Converting "Identity" into a Source of Security through Trust-Learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)In the discipline of international relations, the concept of trust has been theorised in two ways: the 'rationalist' approach and the 'normative' approach. This article aims to show that these approaches do not adequately ... -
Water-Soluble Non-Polymeric Electrospun Cyclodextrin Nanofiber Template for the Synthesis of Metal Oxide Tubes by Atomic Layer Deposition
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)We report on the suitability of water-soluble non-polymeric electrospun cyclodextrin (CD) nanofiber templates by using atomic layer deposition (ALD) to yield metal oxide tubes. To demonstrate this, water-soluble electrospun ... -
A logic programming framework for modelling temporal objects
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996-10)We present a general approach for modeling temporal aspects of objects in a logic programming framework. Change is formulated in the context of a database which stores explicitly a record of all changes that have occurred ... -
Exploring what is good about security? Politics of Security during the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)In the last decade, students of Critical Security Studies (CSS) have been increasingly studying and understanding the concept of security in negative terms. The way they choose to analyse security instils a one-sided ... -
Turkey's foreign policy implementation in sub-Saharan Africa: A post-international approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Turkey's activism in Africa has been extensively noted. It has been argued that non-state actors like business and civil society organizations take part in Turkeys Africa initiative. Nevertheless, state/non-state ... -
The Conflict Resolution and Counterterrorism Dilemma: Turkey Faces its Kurdish Question
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This article considers the relationship between two processes-conflict resolution and counterterrorism-which conceptually share many common points, yet in practice do not necessarily proceed together easily towards a common ... -
Assessing violent nonstate actorness in global politics: a framework for analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This article begins with the assumption that the most important shift that is taking place in contemporary global politics is the shift in polity power from the predominance of the state to the rising importance of ... -
Transnational Labour Solidarity and Social Movement Unionism: Insights from and beyond a Women Workers' Strike in Turkey
(Blackwell Publishing, 2011-07)Through an analysis of solidarity across borders and social groups in connection with and beyond a strike on the part primarily of women workers at a foreignowned factory in Turkey’s Antalya Free Zone, this article ... -
Religious Discrimination and International Crises: International Effects of Domestic Inequality
(Wiley, 2013)This paper explores religious discrimination against ethnic groups and foreign policy crisis linkages as part of the broader foreign policy approaches developed by McGowan and Shapiro (1973) and James and Özdamar (2005, ... -
Future of Turkey-EU Relations: A Civilisational Discourse
(Elsevier, 2005-05)Should or can Turkey join the European Union (EU)? This paper argues that there are three alternative scenarios of the EU decision to grant membership to Turkey: ‘privileged relationship offer,’ ‘wait and see attitude,’ ... -
The Politics of Studying Securitization: The Copenhagen School in Turkey
(SAGE Publications, 2011)Copenhagen School securitization theory has made significant inroads into the study of security in Western Europe. In recent years, it has also begun to gain a presence elsewhere. This is somewhat unanticipated. Given ... -
Quantifying intelligence cooperation: The United States International Intelligence Behavior (USIIB) dataset
(SAGE Publications, 2011)This report describes the creation of the United States International Intelligence Behavior dataset (USIIB). The USIIB represents the first collection of event data specifically intended for exploring in a quantifiable ... -
What Future for Middle Eastern Studies?
(Elsevier, 2006-06)Middle Eastern Studies (MES) has increasingly come under attack in recent years. The critics have included the more politically oriented (as with Martin Kramer who reproached Middle Eastern scholars for failing to serve ... -
Turkey's 'New' Foreign Policy towards Eurasia
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)Two geographers specializing in Turkey’s international relations examine the reframing of foreign policy issues under the country’s Justice and Development Party (JDP; also known by its Turkish acronym AKP), in power ... -
Religion, Government Coalitions, and Terrorism
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)When ethnic minority parties are excluded from government coalitions, are group attributes such as religion related to the groups' use of political violence? We argue that extremist factions within minority groups make use ...
