Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
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,’ ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Divided Government, an Ideological Parliament, and an Insecure Leader: Turkey's Indecision about Joining the Iraq War
(Wiley, 2013)Objectives On March 1, 2003, the Turkish parliament rejected a government motion that would involve Turkey in the Iraq war and allow U.S. forces to use Turkish territory in an offensive against Iraq. This decision has been ... -
From good neighbor to model: Turkey's changing roles in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring
(International Relations Council of Turkey (UİK-IRCT), 2014)The recent Arab uprisings have forced many actors to reconsider their positions regarding Middle Eastern politics. Role theory provides a viable tool to explain changes in actors’ foreign policy behaviors, presuming that ... -
Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinity of the EU before and after the Arab Spring: A Gender Analysis of Euro-Mediterranean Security Relations
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)In the academic literature on EU – southern Mediterranean relations, a focal point of neglect has been the gendered dimension of Euro-Mediterranean relations. This article argues that the Euro-Mediterranean space has ... -
The USA-Turkey-Middle East: From the 20th Century to the Present
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This study compares the cold war period and contemporary issues which involve the triangle with a focus on Iraq, Syria and Egypt. It traces turning points in the 20th century, present dilemmas and conclusions in a state ... -
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 ... -
Critical Investigations into the international
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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 ... -
Civil-Military Relations in Europe, the Middle East and Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-06)This article seeks to understand the transformation of Turkish civil-military relations in a comparative perspective. The analysis is based on two criteria: institutional/ legal mechanisms and political oversight of 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 ... -
On the futures of sovereignty
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Security through Trust-Building in the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation: Two Perspectives for the Partnership
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)Trust-building creates puzzles for analysts in relation to what kind of trust is built in world politics, between whom, and to what end. This article studies two types of trust in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: ... -
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 ... -
Religion and Coalition Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2013)The literature holds that coalition-building parties prefer the policy distance of coalition partners to be as small as possible. In light of continued importance of religion in electoral politics cross-nationally, the ... -
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 ... -
Water scarcity, conflict, and migration: a comparative analysis and reappraisal
(SAGE Publications, 2012)How should we characterise the relations between environmental scarcity, confl ict, and migration? Most academic and policy analyses conclude that scarcities of environmental resources can have signifi cant impacts upon ...
