Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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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 foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran: prospects for change and continuity
(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation, 2019)Over the past four decades, there have been a variety of trends and developments in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Within a framework of basic principles and fundamentals, the various administrations ... -
European populist radical right leaders’ foreign policy beliefs: An operational code analysis
(Sage Publications, 2019-05)Despite the significance of the subject, studies on the foreign policy preferences of European populist radical right leaders are scarce except for a handful of examples. Are European populist radical right leaders more ... -
The Massigli affair and its context: Turkish foreign policy after the molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
(2019-05)This article examines Turkey's wartime diplomacy between the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and Hitler's unleashing of Operation Barbarossa. Rather than a survey of Turkish foreign policy as a whole, it takes a critical episode ... -
Coercion by fear: securitization of Iraq prior to the 2003 war
(Sage Publications, 2019-10)The Iraq War was one of the most prominent events of the early 2000s. The prelude to the war halted the sense of optimism that captivated International Relations as a discipline after the end of the Cold War. The United ... -
The role of emotions during the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt in light of repertoires
(Routledge, 2019-02)This article examines the role of emotions during the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt in the context of collective level emotions in mobilizations. Emotions are understood as a catalyst whose mechanism of action is performed ... -
The Turkish presidential elections of 24 June 2018
(Routledge, 2019-07)On 24 June 2018 Turkish voters headed to the polls to elect a new president and parliament after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to call for snap elections eighteen months earlier than scheduled. The election was ... -
Killing competitive authoritarianism softly: the 2019 local elections in Turkey
(Routledge, 2019-11)On 31 March 2019 Turkish voters ended the Islamist local governance in the country’s largest cities after 25 years and handed the ruling AKP its most serious electoral defeat since its rise to power in 2002. The article ... -
Turkey and the Asian infrastructure investment bank: economic pragmatism meets geopolitics
(University of Durham and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2019)This article explores Turkey's expectations for the AIIB as a new multilateral development bank (MDB) and examines the projects that the AIIB has financed in Turkey so far. The main argument is that economic pragmatism, ... -
An alternative account of the populist backlash in the United States: a perspective from Turkey
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Scholars tend to assume that consolidated democracies are free from the global retreat of democracy due to their strong institutions and economic development. Yet, populist forces that challenge the liberal democratic model ... -
Proliferation and the Logic of the Nuclear Market
(MIT Press Journals, 2019)The evolution of the nuclear market explains why there are only nine members of the nuclear club, not twenty-five or more, as some analysts predicted. In the absence of a supplier cartel that can regulate nuclear transfers, ... -
Kenneth Waltz talks through Mark Rothko: visual metaphors in the discipline of international relations theory
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2019)Semiotics constitutes an untapped and interdisciplinary source of enrichment for the discipline of International Relations (IR) theory. We propose two visual metaphors to that effect to interpret the figure depicting the ... -
Üçüncü dünya güvenlik ve postkolonyal güvenlik yaklaşımları arasındaki farklılıklar: devlet, kültür ve modernite
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi(UİK), 2019-09-01)Bu makalenin amacı, Üçüncü Dünya güvenlik yaklaşımları ve postkolonyal güvenlik yaklaşımlarının güvenlik çalışmalarına kuramsal bakışları arasındaki farklılıkları tartışmaktır. Makale dört bölümden oluşmaktadır. İlk bölümde, ... -
A dance of entanglement: the US-Turkish relations in the context of the Syrian conflict
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi(UİK), 2019-06)Alliances under unipolarity operate with different logic than under bipolarity. Unipolarity makes the twin dangers of abandonment and entrapment more likely for the weaker states that need the unipole for the pursuit of ... -
Introduction
(Routledge, 2010)This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security ... -
Causes and consequences of crisis in the eurozone periphery
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018)This volume considers the political economy dynamics that both caused and were precipitated by the Eurozone crisis in four of the hardest-hit so-called periphery country cases—Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece. This ... -
A typology of homegrown theorizing
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Introduction: Widening the world of IR
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Turko-Ukrainian relations and the Crimean Tatars
(Kriterion, 2003)
