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    Azerbaijan's foreign policy and challenges for energy security
    (Middle East Institute, 2009) Ipek, P.
    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 foreign policy. It is argued that geopolitics continue to prevail in the strategic goals of Azerbaijan. However, the new challenges in the emerging framework of energy security, which extends beyond the revitalized geopolitical rivalries and preeminent concern over securing energy supplies, put Azerbaijan's foreign policy at a crossroads and require a new trans-Atlantic partnership to promote human security and to manage the risk entailed in the unpredictable policy environments of the Caspian region.
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    Dynamics of the alliance between Turkey and USA : the South Caucasus case
    (2003) Ayhan, Halil Sıddık
    With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the South Caucasus presented several opportunities and challenges in the political, economic and military domains to the US as the unique superpower of the world, and to Turkey as a regional power. Though there occurred several crises in the Turkish-American alliance from its outset, both states whose interests converged; encouraging the development of democratic pro-Western regimes and free-market economy, hindering ethnic conflicts, expanding NATO’s membership, blocking monopolization of oil export routes in the Caucasus, securing oil reserves in the Caspian, preventing the rebuilding of the Russian Empire and falling the newly independent states of the South Caucasus from falling into the hegemony of Russia and Iran, keeping Iran’s fundamentalist regime in check, and pursuing active politics in the South Caucasus as a duty for the sake of their own global and regional interests. But, there had been also differences in the allies’ politics as in the NagornoKarabakh conflict. However, the South Caucasian states, including Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia faced enormous difficulties in enhancing their national security, implementing the process of state building and improving their economic situation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and therefore, independence for these states did not initially provide political stability. Internal conflicts, and Russia’s imperialist policies undermined these states’ efforts in order to be strong and independent states, and they could not cope with the challenges of the new geopolitical and economic environment due to the lack of their own military power, and strong economy. Thereupon, these states’ first years of independence have been fraught with economic, political, and social difficulties. But the vigorous efforts of the US and Turkey prevented the South Caucasian states from falling into Russian hegemony and accelerated state-building process of these countries as examined in this study
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    Geçmişten günümüze Azerbaycan Kültür Derneği'nin tarihi ve Türkiye'de Azerbaycan kültürünün gelişmesine katkıları
    (Bilkent University, 2018) Baydar, Makbule Berfin; Toraman, Ceren; İğdır, Laiye Burcu; Süncer, Nuri Can; Bedir, Alperen
    Bu makale, 1 şubat 1949 yılında kurulan Azerbaycan Kültür Derneği üzerinden Türkiye’de Azerbaycan kültürünün geliştirilmesi ve yaygınlaştırılması sürecini ve Azerbaycan Kültür Derneği’nin Azerbaycan kültürünün Türkiye’de yaygınlaştırılmasına katkı sağlamak amacıyla yararlandığı temel araçları incelemektedir. Türkiye’deki Azerbaycanlı nüfusu göz önünde bulundurulduğunda böyle bir derneğin gerekliliği ve ilerleyişinin çokkültürlülüğe katkılarının olması dolayısıyla incelemeye değer bulunmuştur. Genel olarak, bu proje Azerbaycan Kültür Derneği’nin Türkiye’de Azerbaycan kültürünün geliştirilmesindeki yeri ve derneğin işleyiş ve yapılanmasının yıllar içindeki değişimi ile dernek içinde ayrıca kurulması gerekli görülen Kadınlar Kolu’nun faaliyetleri hakkında bizlere tarihi bir bakış açısı sunmaktadır.
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    Imagining Turan: homeland and its political implications in the literary work of Hüseyinzade Ali [Turan] and Mehmet Ziya [Gökalp]
    (Routledge, 2020) Grigoriadis, Ioannis N.; Opçin-Kıdal, Arzu
    While scholarly interest in the influence of Tatar intellectuals on Turkish nationalism has been strong, less attention has been paid to the interactions between Russian Azerbaijani and Ottoman Turkish intellectuals. This study applies theoretical tools developed by Benedict Anderson in the study of ethnic nationalism in the late Ottoman and Russian Empires. In doing so, this study focuses on the works of one leading intellectual from each side, Hüseyinzade Ali [Turan] and Mehmet Ziya [Gökalp]. Particular attention is paid to the concept of Turan, which they defined and elaborated as both a political ideal and a key element of the nationalist ideology they espoused through four poems they authored, two of which have homonymous titles. Their different views of the limits of the Turanian ‘imagined community’ and the political operationalization of the concept shed light on the development of ethnic nationalism in the declining Ottoman and Russian Empires. Ever since, Turan has become a significant symbolic conceptual tool that has fired the imaginations of Turkic nationalists (without, yet, having led to the establishment of a serious political movement).
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    Kerim Yaycılı'nın hayatı ve edebi kişiliğnde yaşamının etkisi
    (Bilkent University, 2018) Arkış, Ayça; Berber, Ezgi; Kılıçarslan, Lara; Uğuz, Müge; Yıldız, Yiğitcan
    1910’lu yıllarda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu çöküş yıllarındadır. Bu çöküşü hızlandırmak isteyen İtilaf Devletleri, Osmanlı’nın çok uluslu oluşunu Osmanlı’ya karşı kullanmak ve azınlıkları milliyetçilik akımı ile kışkırtma gayesi içindedir. çıkan isyanlar ve yapılan katliamlar sonucunda Doğu Anadolu’daki politik ve sosyal dengeler değişmiş, cephenin bağımsızlık mücadelesindeki önemi artmıştır. Doğu Anadolu’da değişen politik dengelere bağlı olarak göç olayları yaşanmıştır. 1913’de Azeri bir ailenin çocuğu olarak Iğdır’da dünyaya gelen Kerim Yaycılı’nın hayatında ve edebi kişiliğinde göç, vatan sevgisi ve özlem gibi duygular etkili olmuştur. Bu çalışmada, Osmanlı’nın çöküş dönemlerinde Doğu Anadolu’da yaşanan olayların Kerim Yaycılı’nın hayatı ve edebi kişiliğine olan yansıması incelenmiştir.
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    Political economy of energy sector restructuring in the post-soviet space: Russia and Azerbaijan in comparative perspective
    (2019-06) Özertem, Hasan Selim
    This dissertation explores the political economy of energy sector restructuring in the post-Soviet space with a particular focus on the role of elite structure therein. After remaining under the same Communist regime for seventy years, ownership structures of energy sector in the post-Soviet countries diverged significantly during the transition period. All countries in this space maintained their state monopolies in the sector. In Russia, however, privately-owned national energy companies emerged to control the majority of the sector under Yeltsin’s rule. Using the comparative elite structure model, I argue that during the transition period, elite structure, dimensions of which are political elite integration and elite capacity, shaped the Russian and Azerbaijani energy sector restructuring differently. Privately-owned national energy companies gained the majority of the energy sector’s ownership in Yeltsin’s Russia with weak political elite integration with and high elite capacity. I observed consolidation of the state’ ownership in the energy sector in Putin’s Russia with strong political elite integration and high elite capacity. I observed continuation/consolidation of the state’s ownership in Azerbaijan with strong political elite integration and low elite capacity. I show that these processes are conditioned by the structural political economic context each energy rich country finds itself in. Thus, I also argue that country’s status as a center or periphery shapes the levels of political elite integration and elite capacity in transitional periods after an exogenous shock. Furthermore, the dissertation explores economic and political repercussions of different ownership structures in Russia and Azerbaijan.
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    Security first approach : causes of security prioritization and implication of this prioritization on democracy in the cases of Singapore and Azerbaijan
    (2009) Alkış, Nur
    The security-democracy relationship is an interesting issue that has drawn scholarly attention. The security first approach is a new input in the field. It looks the issue from the Western foreign policy perspective and discusses what should be done by Western powers in the failed and rogue states to build security and democracy. It claims that first security must be established, and then democracy would gradually consolidate, rather than democracy promotion. Such a shift in Western foreign policy would have significant impact for the developing world, facing the challenge of political-economic development and security-democracy building at the same time. This thesis aims to apply security first approach to developing world. It analyzes the causes of security prioritization and implications of this prioritization on democracy, in the cases of Singapore and Azerbaijan to verify the security first approach’s claims. Both of these countries have applied a security first approach after they gained independence. They have also established some democratic institutional and legal structures. However, the worry of the ruling elites about losing security and power led them constantly delay democratization and restrict political arena. The governments of both cases have been successful in maintaining security and stability, yet this did not give way to the gradual triumph of democracy as argued by security first approach. Western cooperation with the governments of these countries, due to the formers’ interest in the stability of both countries and regimes can be argued to have contributed to the security of the states and their ruling elites, but not to the democratization process and the security of the people. Hence, the thesis argues that the discussion in the Western foreign policy should not be about security versus democracy, but rather about striving for security and democracy concurrently in the developing world.
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    Soviet Transcaucasus 1917-1945 : nations in transition
    (2013) Aksoy, Didem
    This thesis analyzes the nationalities policy of the Soviet Union with a special emphasis on three major Transcaucasian nationalities, i.e. Georgians, Azerbaijanis and Armenians. The thesis focuses on the Soviet nationalities policy and attempts to shed light on the history of these three Transcaucasian nationalities within the context of this policy. Soviet nationalities policy, even if disparately applied for any nationality under the Soviet rule, resulted in significant consequences for all the nationalities of the Union. Within this framework, this study aims to explain both idiosyncratic and alike evolutions of Georgians, Azerbaijanis and Armenians, at the same time, under the Soviet rule. Finally, it argues that Soviet policies, specifically the nationalities policy, played the major role in the transformation of Transcaucasian nationalities and determined the current dynamics of the region