Browsing by Author "Williams, Paul A."

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Climate change, its effects, and the political economy of adaptation and mitigation: turkey and the eastern Mediterranean region
(Lexington Books, 2013) Williams, Paul A.; Vajpeyi, D. K.
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Energy and trans-european networks–energy (TEN-E)
(Routledge, 2015) Williams, Paul A.; Güney, A.; Tekin, A.
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Euphrates and tigris waters-turkish - Syrian and Iraqi relations
(Lexington Books, 2012) Williams, Paul A.; Vajpeyi, D. V.
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New configuration or reconfiguration? conflict in north–south energy trade relations
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2009) Williams, Paul A.; Reuveny, R.; Thompson, W. R.
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Turkey’s water diplomacy: a theoretical discussion
(Springer, 2011) Williams, Paul A.; Kramer, A.; Kibaroğlu, A.; Scheumann, W.
The term ‘water diplomacy’ connotes explicit and purposeful communication between representatives of different states charged with negotiating a resolution to contentious issues related to the mutual use of common rivers. In fact, though, communication is seldom confined to the formal exchange of official views, as these issues often encourage harder forms of bargaining. As the entrenchment of opposing legal positions tends to prevail at the formal diplomatic level, states are inclined to employ more tacit exercises of influence using means ranging from positive inducements to coercion.
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Turkey: a neglected partner
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) Williams, Paul A.; Akbarzadeh, S.
With the main focus of Barack H. Obama’s first foreign tour on multinational summitry (including the G20 summit in London and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] meeting in Strasbourg), capping his itinerary with a visit to Turkey seemed incongruous. After affirming in his April speech before Turkey’s parliament, known as the Grand National Assembly, that he had chosen Turkey “to send a message to the world” and then enumerating key global issues, Obama remarked, “No one nation can confront these challenges alone, and all nations have a stake in overcoming them We are stronger when we act together.”1 Yet this speech did not serve merely to differentiate Obama’s approach from the preceding administration’s reputation for unilateralism and “bring-it-on” confrontationalism. Although this renown was largely earned by U.S.-led interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama could have demonstrated his opposing policy sensibility anywhere other than in a Muslim-majority country.