Current issues in regional and global energy include a myriad of challenges and opportunities. This special issue on energy policy and international relations brings out academic findings on factors that affect ...
This article differentiates substantial factors from circumstantial ones in order to map the degree of their significance for Turkey’s energy policy with highlights concerning Turkey’s foreign policy. It ...
Natural gas discoveries in the offshore Eastern Mediterranean have been the source of regional geopolitical reshuffling. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of implications of those changes on the Cyprus problem. The paper is ...
Nuclear energy differs from other sources of energy with its military application resting at the core of international relations, that is, nuclear weapons. Under the international nuclear nonproliferation regime, nonnuclear weapon states have ...
Some Middle Eastern states have proposed massive projects for building nuclear power plants (NPP) as part of their energy security plans to cut down reliance on electricity production from gas or hydro resources. The gold standard of attaining ...
Climate change is increasingly recognized worldwide as a growing threat. The UN’s sustainable development goals and the Paris Conference (COP 21) attest to this. Countries confront the challenge of managing ...
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan can be defined as Small Powers because their actions in the international arena are relatively limited. At the same time, these two countries have significant reserves of oil and natural gas that allow them to ...
In recent years, natural gas has increasingly gained in geopolitical significance. Gas is no longer a marginal fuel but a fuel of choice for many energy consumers. Driven by the availability of shale gas, the growth of the natural gas industry ...
When the Turkic-speaking states gained their independence from the Soviet Union, which disintegrated largely peacefully towards the end of 1991, few international experts realized the significance of the newly independent Turkic-speaking ...
Since Kazakhstan gained independence in 1992, bilateral relations between Kazakhstan and Turkey have developed in many spheres. The warm relations have brought many business opportunities for both countries. Over 23 years, the amount of exports ...
2016 marked the 25th anniversary of the restoration of Azerbaijan’s state independence. Able to reinstate independence twice in the past century- in 1918 and 1991- Azerbaijan carries on its ancient and prolific tradition of statehood. This ...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan chose an original path of economic development policy. Known as the Uzbek model, these policies helped the Uzbek economy survive at least two economic crises over the last two decades. In terms ...
This paper’s aim is to shed light on cultural cooperation activities carried out among the Turkic republics over 25 years of independence and to analyse initiatives of cultural diplomacy which they have undertaken on a global level. The main ...
TurkPA, as an example of an international parliamentary institution (IPI), constitutes a forum for parliamentary diplomacy and serves as the parliamentary dimension of the cooperation and integration of Turkic countries in Eurasia. IPIs provide ...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has conducted activities in refugee producing countries to provide the sustainability of voluntary repatriation as the most preferred durable solution. The literature on UNHCR’s increasing ...
In the post-nuclear deal scenario, Iran has reformulated the terms of the oil contract model, called the Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC), to attract international investments and technology in field development. In addition, it has ramped up ...
This paper attempts to understand the gradual “civilian” shift in Turkish foreign policy in the first decade of the 2000s through its development cooperation activities in the Africa region. To this aim, by applying the “civilian power” ...
When Ideology Goes Wrong: Some Recent Books On Turkish-GreekArmenian Wars, 1915-1923 A Review Article on Twice A Stranger, How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece & Turkey, By Bruce Clark London: Granta Books, 2006, 274 pages, ISBN: ...
As the Acting Chairman of the ...
This paper aims to analyze potential future areas of greater cooperation ...
Chairman’s ...
Third parties have grown increasingly relevant in European politics in recent years, with the rise of status-quo changing parties such as Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, UKIP in Britain and the Front National in France. This article aims to ...
The “Beijing Consensus” (BC) as a concept has been utilised to distinguish China’s economic development experience from the “Washington Consensus” (WC), the policy toolkit offered to developing countries by Washington-based ...
Are soldiers more prone and likely to use force and initiate conflicts than civilians? To bring a new insight to this question, this article compares the main arguments of military activism and military conservatism theories on Israeli ...
In addition to oral tradition, the knowledge and understanding of history is based on written sources. Therefore it is highly significant when research is able to introduce hitherto unknown material that can shed new light on inveterate truths. ...
Important changes have shaped the Eastern Mediterranean since the discovery of energy resources and the disintegration of TurkishIsraeli relations. The widening divergence in interests between Turkey and Israel provided the geopolitical ...
A persistent concern that has gripped analysts of the post-Cold War era is that the dangerous but orderly state of world affairs that followed World War II, thanks to the hierarchical hegemonic character of the world system, would collapse and ...
This article examines the structure of resource mobilization for the Islamic State by focusing on its recruitment mechanism. This mechanism consists of several actors, and their relationships and interactions are quite important for successful ...
DAESH is a terrorist organisation with a Salafist jihadist ideology that threatens the civilized world. Moreover, like a contagious agent of a cancer cell to the rest of the body, the foreign terrorist fighters of DAESH are a growing threat ...
The economic relations between Turkey and Japan have recently been on the decline. This is partly a reflection of the ongoing economic transformation in the East Asian region, where China and Korea have caught up with Japanese industries and ...
With the onset of the 21st century, Japan is passing through a transformative era in which it is in the process of forming a new national role conception. This study argues that as a result of international pressure, changes in domestic ...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the newest, multi-purpose regional organizations, with an agenda that ranges from broader security concerns to economic cooperation. The founding members of this organization are China, ...
At this critical moment for Europe and the SEE region, Bulgaria took over, for the third time, the chairmanship of the South-East European Cooperation Process for the period of 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016. Under the slogan “SEECP – a key to ...
The Euro crisis, which has had deep economic, social and political implications for the European Union (EU), has revived the debates on the future model of European integration. In this respect, the establishment of a European political union ...
The purpose of this article is to provide an insider’s perspective on the mutually constitutive interplay between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the organizational culture of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs over ...
The argument that Jordan is a remarkably stable country in a volatile region has become axiomatic. Some contend that the Hashemite monarchy is indispensable for the country’s stability. Nonetheless, an in-depth analysis of Jordan’s political ...
Three decades after Gorbachev’s 1986 Glasnost campaign, the sudden death of the Soviet Union still continues to keep diplomatic historians busy with its momentous implications. The mutually excluding political realms of the Cold War forged a ...
Turkey and Serbia share a common history as the two ...
Not a single day passes by that we do not hear of a humanitarian crisis around the world. In every corner of our planet political and military conflicts and environmental disasters produce scores of human tragedies. ...
This article is a postcolonial critique of the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the Middle East. It problematizes a selective, arbitrary and punitive implementation of international law in Iraq, ...
This article traces the evolution of Turkey’s humanitarian diplomacy as an example of the new humanitarianism associated with emerging countries. It discusses both the promise as well as the challenges of the new ...
The role of the Turkish Red Crescent Society and its humanitarian work during World War I and the Turkish War of Independence by delivering healthcare and assistance to tens of thousands of wounded or sick soldiers is ...
Palestinian refugees make up the largest refugee population in the world, yet humanitarian diplomacy with regards to these refugees has been lacking since the start of the creation of the refugee problem. Even early ...
Despite being seen by western nations as an adversarial, confrontational and undemocratic nation, the People’s Republic of China has been able to forge a large number of beneficial and lasting relationships with ...
This study examines the effectiveness of political conditionality by looking at the European Union’s suspension of development cooperation with three African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states (Zimbabwe, Ivory ...
China has recorded remarkable growth rates for three and a half decades. Recently, the annual growth rate has slowed down and is projected to decline gradually to 5 % by 2030. This article examines how high economic ...
Turkey and the West: From Neutrality to Commitment by Yusuf Turan Çetiner Maryland: University Press of America, 2014, 446 pages, ISBN: 9780761861898 Turkey and the European Union: Processes of ...
1- Locating Turkey as a ‘Rising Power’ in the Changing International Order: An Introduction Emel PARLAR DAL & Gonca OĞUZ GÖK 19- Muslim Perceptions of Injustice as an International Relations ...
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of academic studies on changes in the current international order and the way the so-called rising powers have been contributing to these changes ...
This article argues that political instability and conflict in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world are caused by perceived marginalization and systematic injustice suffered by Muslim societies both at the ...
This article argues that the increasing emphasis of civilization in Turkish foreign policy discourse fundamentally affected Turkey’s criticism of the current international order. Political elites during the Justice ...
The “normative turn” associated with the post-Cold War order has been influential in rising states’ increasing reference to normative issues like justice and fairness. Rising powers are expected to challenge the ...
Acknowledging Turkey as a “rising/emerging middle power”, occupying a middle ground between traditional (or Western) middle powers and non-traditional middle powers, this paper aims to reassess Turkey’s changing ...
This study presents a theoretically informed account of the institutional evolution of the G20 since its foundation in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis in 1997. In so doing, it highlights the strategic ...
This article aims to make a comprehensive analysis of the impacts of the Arab Spring on the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In particular, it tackles with the question of how the Hashemite regime could ...
The prospects of a post 2014 drawdown of foreign troops from Afghanistan and the subsequent transition process have raised concerns about the capacity of the Afghan state to endure the challenges of ...
Thus he once told his interlocutor in an interview, as reported in the New York Times, “My life is a long debate”. As a spirited Africanist, a conscientious public intellectual, a prolific writer, a passionate ...
“The United States, NATO, ...
Nurşin ATEŞOĞLU GÜNEY Gawdat BAHGAT
The problem of energy has become the most important instrument in determining the contours of the new geo-politics of rivalry, alliances and cooperation in the 21st century. Starting in the 2000s, the emergence of new ...
In mid-November 2014 the Paris-based International Energy Agency issued its latest World Energy Outlook. The main theme of the report is that the global energy system is “in danger of failing short of the hopes and ...
The article analyses the challenges that oiland- condensate production in Russia is currently facing. Russia still has enormous resource potential to produce oil and other liquid hydrocarbons for many years to come. ...
Recent years have seen increasing worldwide attention being paid to the broad issue of energy and, in particular, to the aspect of energy security. The issue is even more crucial in Europe and Turkey, which are both energy dependent and are trying ...
Although the first requirement for the present stability in Europe arose with the end of World War II, the signing of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 cemented the peace. The ...
Since the 1973 OPEC oil crisis the EU has been dependent on hydrocarbon imports from Russia. The latest Ukrainian crisis, resulting from the Russian annexation of Crimea, has naturally triggered therefore old ...
This paper attempts to identify what kind of changes have occurred in the interdependence model and energy dialogue regime between Russia and Europe. The energy dialogue regime was constructed during the Cold War ...
The Center for Strategic Research (SAM) of ...
The Center for Strategic ...
Aydın BABUNA
Bekim SEJDIU and Murat ...
The February 2014 protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina have shown clearly that Bosnia-Herzegovina is still- 20 years after the signing of the Dayton Accords- the key country for security in the Western Balkans. These ...
The general tendency in academic writing about the UN is to highlight its contribution to the maintenance of international peace and security, as well as its role in boosting economic, social and other forms of ...
During the five decades of its involvement in the infamous ‘Cyprus problem’, the United Nations (UN) has undertaken several largescale attempts to lead the process of conflict resolution, however, the UN’s ...
The League of Arab States, known as the Arab League (AL), has historically proven to be largely ineffective in its endeavors at conflict resolution within and between Arab states. The AL has had neither impact nor ...
Israel and the US are currently balancing against Iran because both perceive a nucleararmed Iran as a threat to regional and world security. But does balancing really work? Does it reduce threat and provide security? ...
The study of civil-military relations remains dominated by Samuel Huntington’s 1957 book, The Soldier and the State, but it is unclear if the work retains external validity when applied in a contemporary context. Turkey’s volatile history of ...
Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction By Vassilis Fouskas and Constantine Dimoulas Basingstone: Palgrave and Macmillan, 2013, ISBN: ...
Uluslararası İlişkiler literatüründe siyasal rejimlerin doğası ve uluslararası siyasete ...
The aim of this seminar is to bring together academics and practitioners who are ...
Pınar BİLGİN and L.H.M. LING Pınar BİLGİN
“Asia” currently resides at the margins of the academic study of world politics, a.k.a. international relations (IR). This is in contrast to the historical centrality of Asia to the evolution of world politics. It is also in contrast to the ...
Civilisational dialogue initiatives are currently considered our best chance to prevent a potential clash between states belonging to different civilisations. Critical approaches to security are concerned with insecurities as experienced by multiple ...
The Cosmopolitan discourse on global governance invokes a global, normative ethic. It presumes a kind of shared civic identity that ignores the burdens of history, obstacles of geography and diversity of peoples, uniting all under a set of ...
The question of India’s energy security, and by extension growth and national development, has been addressed in recent years through extensive power sector reforms organised around the modalities of privatisation and deregulation. Such policies ...
Fear, insecurity and anxiety seem to be the enduring sources of genocidal impulses against the Bengali-speaking Muslim minorities of contemporary Assam, India. This paper explores how the tripartite matrix of the border, census and citizenship ...
If nations and nationalism are products of industrialisation and modernity, then South Asia is not supposed to have the concept of nationalism since the region neither has experienced industrialisation nor has it undergone the transformation of ...
The on-going dispute over the ownership of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between China and Japan has often been ridiculed by observers as an unwise struggle for rocks. One must question, however, why so much significance has been attached to those ...
Narratives of the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands dispute expose the spectrum of Taiwan’s national identity. While Taiwan has long been struggling to legitimise its claim of representing China or to become an independent state, some of the Taiwanese ...
Much of the postcolonial/non-Eurocentric literature that has emerged in recent years has concluded that the key antidote to Eurocentrism lies with the need to factor Eastern agency into our theoretical and empirical understandings/ explanations of ...
This essay endeavours to justify a transcultural approach to international studies by showing that contemporary Western approaches to the theory of knowledge (epistemology) demand it. Both (sophisticated) falsificationism and pragmatic realism (or ...
A pressing question in international relations (IR) theory today is how to overcome its Western-centric character. Recent articulations of a non- or post-Western IR theory offer a significant step forward; nonetheless, a Westernmade critical method ...
We need to re-envision international relations (IR). By framing world politics as a world-ofworlds comprised of multiple, interactive and overlapping regional worlds, we can curb the hegemony of the West through Westphalian IR and stem, if not ...
On China By Henry Kissinger New York: The Penguin Press, 2012, 586 pages, ISBN: 9781594202711. Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab ...
Evren ÇELİK WILTSE
Pınar İPEK
In the last few years, Perceptions has adopted a new strategy of regularly publishing special issues that have certain specific focuses. This move is in line with trends in the wider academic publishing community. Instead of publishing a ...
Thus far, the G20 represents the most significant collective attempt to address the 2008 economic crisis by the world’s largest economies. It is the only global platform that could serve as an institutional panacea for the protracted economic ...
This study examines the importance of legitimacy in hegemony through the changes and continuities in the structures of global political economy. It is argued that a statecentric approach to hegemony is insufficient, and that the legitimacy of or ...
This article examines the causes of and responses to Europe’s economic, monetary, and political crises as well as their implications on Europe’s position in the global economic order and its ability to shape governance of the international ...
This paper analyses the politics of renewable energy in Turkey by discussing the opportunities as well as the constraints facing decision makers in their attempt to create an attractive renewable energy investment environment. A careful study of ...
Á After the impact of the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009, Latin America and the Caribbean began to grow again 4.3% in 2011 and 3.0% in 2012, which totalize a GDP of US $5.6 trillion. One of the main factors for economic growth in the ...
The United Nations Security Council is at the centre of the international security system. However, even after several decades the Council has had only minimal changes in its basic structure and composition, despite the fact that the international ...
The Arab Spring has created a fertile ground for the competition of different models (Turkish, Iranian and Saudi) and for a new balance of power in the Middle East and North Africa. These three models, based on three distinct styles of politics, go ...
Turkey had pursued a foreign policy in the Middle East that focused on transformative conflict resolution until the beginning of the “Arab Spring”. This transformative conflict resolution approach had aimed at bringing holistic and systemic ...
Freshwater scarcity is an increasingly important aspect of the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa, and is magnified when sources are shared between states. In the Jordanian, Israeli and Syrian cases, most of their freshwater ...
The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760-2010 By John M. Hobson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 393 pages, ISBN ...
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Seçil PAÇACI ELİTOK
The Istanbul Policy Center (IPC)- Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative organised a workshop1 entitled “Turkey’s Migration Policy from 2002 to 2012: An Assessment of the AKP’s Reforms” on 16 February 2013 at IPC’s Karaköy ...
With the commencement of the Lisbon Treaty in December 2009, the EU member states have committed themselves to the creation of “a common immigration policy”. Despite the increasing “communitarisation” of EU migration policy over the past ...
This paper analyses changes occurring in visa politics during the rule of the JDP government with respect to EU visa policies. The author takes note of the positive steps taken since 2002, while also drawing attention to existing shortcomings. While ...
This paper is critically engaged in the elaboration of the ideology of multiculturalism in the European context, which is currently constrained by the securitisation and stigmatisation of migration and Islam. In western nation-states migration has ...
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, human trafficking has emerged as one of the major trans-national phenomena affecting Turkey. Although trafficking in human beings is widely acknowledged as a serious crime and is countered by a ...
The object of this article is to offer a critical analysis of the impact of the 2013 Law on Foreigners and International Protection regarding the general status of aliens. The examination will focus on the provisions regulating the entry, residence ...
The Turkish- German migration movement did not start with the recruitment agreement in 1961. However, with this agreement, migration from Turkey became a new dynamic. As migration is usually accompanied by return migration, we may also say that the ...
As the Turkish state’s position on the issue of international migration is being transformed, new questions have arisen about the state’s policies on immigration and emigration. These are two issues that have long been seen as separate in ...
Turkey has long been a land of asylum due to its geographical location as well as shared social, cultural and historical ties with the Balkans, the Caucasus, Europe, and the Middle East. Since the 1980s, the influx of refugees and irregular and ...
Qatar: A Modern History By Allen J. Fromherz Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012, 224 pages, ISBN: 9781589019102. Qatar: Politics and the ...
The Center for Strategic Research (SAM) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey is a ...
Dünyada hem siyasal hem de ekonomik düzlemde güç dengelerinin yer değiştirdiği ve yeni bir dünya düzeninin ana ...
Birgül DEMİRTAŞ
Maria TODOROVA
The Balkans was continuously at the forefront of global politics in the last century, witnessing three successive world orders. During this period the Balkan countries did not only have to yield to the hegemonic aspirations of the global powers, ...
Based on a critical reading of Trotsky’s celebrated The War Correspondence, this article addresses the complex links between war and memory. It offers a detailed analysis of the correspondence, arguing for its present relevance in several aspects, ...
Nobody is so poor as not to leave any legacy behind when he dies, said Pascal. But what inheritance of war (also involving the problem of its heir) is left behind by the soldier who keeps writing his notes and sending letters from the front line ...
The collapse of communism in Central and Southeastern Europe has given rise to various myths and debates. This article undertakes to examine and debunk two myths and to summarise and assess four debates. The two myths are, first, that no one foresaw ...
The Balkans remain one of Europe’s more unstable and varied political landscapes, with mixed and diverse national trajectories. What we see today in the Balkan political space is largely the outcome of the type of transition that these countries ...
Ć The Yugoslav Wars broke out at a time when the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolutions in Czechoslovakia and other countries in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc had instilled a sense of hope that Europe would become ...
Macedonia was the only Yugoslavian republic to make a peaceful transition to statehood at the time of the federation’s collapse. Yet tensions between ethnic Macedonians and Albanians over the constitutional design of the state meant it remained ...
Turkey is a historically important regional actor and is trying to contribute to the establishment of a peaceful and secure environment in the Balkans. The region has had a salient place in the Turkish foreign policy agenda in the last two decades. ...
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat By Vali Nasr New York: Doubleday, 2013, 320 pages, ISBN: 9780385536486. Rusya ve Polonya’da Din, Kimlik, Siyaset (Religion, Identity, Politics in Russia and Poland) By Sevinç Alkan ...
The increase in the number of nation-states and the violent wars of the last century has triggered the evolution of a new ...
In today’s world there are serious problems in the regional and global systems. The end of the Cold War did not ...
Namrata GOSWAMI
Ramon PACHECO ...
This is Perceptions’ second volume in a special edition on Asia. The previous issue examined East Asia’s dynamic regional affairs and international relations. We have aimed to be as inclusive as possible in terms of covering the various ...
With the rise of China, the East Asian regional order, so long dominated by the U.S. presence and by Japan, is undergoing major power shifts. Increasingly, China is becoming aggressive over its maritime territorial claims in the East China and South ...
Relations between the EU and East Asia have evolved as a result of the global financial and Eurozone debt crises. Throughout the 1990s, economic, political and security relations were dominated by the EU. As an increasing number of East Asian ...
The global centre of gravity is shifting to East Asia, due to its remarkable economic dynamism, but the rise of new power centres and their assertive attitudes also brings huge security challenges. India is renewing its age-old links with East Asia; ...
Õ In this article, we analyse the relationship between Brazil and East Asian countries- Japan, China, South Korea and North Korea. Even though most of these bilateral contacts are not new, they have been taken to a whole new level in the last two ...
This article seeks answers to two related questions in the context of China’s rise as a great power. Has the Chinese leadership abandoned Deng’s low-profile diplomacy and reoriented Chinese foreign policy towards a more assertive or even ...
China’s re-engagement with the global political economy and its unprecedented ascendance as a major economic powerhouse since the mid-1990s has shaken the global community and triggered a radical re evaluation concerning China’s importance for ...
This study examines the Turkish decision not to ally with the United States on 1 March 2003. It argues that Turkey, motivated by the struggle for autonomy, developed a proactive strategy of avoidance against the US’s demands mainly because of its ...
This paper analyses the domestic and regional impact of the Turkish-Armenian normalisation process from the Azerbaijani perspective, with a focus on the changing dynamic of Ankara- Baku relations. This line of enquiry is informed by international ...
Over three years after the signing of protocols on opening diplomatic relations and land borders, the prospects for Turkish-Armenian normalisation in the absence of progress on the Karabakh conflict are slim. But there is also little sign of a ...
The Future of Power By Joseph S. Nye Jr. New York: Public Affairs, 2012, 298 pages, ISBN 9781610390699. Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in ...
This study aims to describe the foreign policy discourses and practices which have seen wide use in the era of the Justice and ...
This policy brief studies Turkey’s contributions to the resolution of the Afghan conflict by ...
Both the EU’s recognition of the importance of its value system and Turkey’s rediscovery of its ...
Joel R. CAMPBELL Yoshinori KASEDA Anna ...
Perceptions continues to publish special issues on subjects and debates in international relations, and this issue and the next will focus on the international politics of East Asia. Member of our Editorial Board Selçuk Çolakoğlu, managing ...
Since the mid-19th century, the US has been a Pacific power. Through three wars and the Cold War, America became a major regional player. Modern Japanese-American relations were shaped by the Cold War, and a strong political-military alliance served ...
After the Second World War, Japan was occupied by the United States, regaining its sovereignty in 1952 with the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Japan-US Security Treaty. During the Cold War, Japan maintained a low military profile, ...
Since the demise of the Soviet Union, Russia’s foreign policy has evolved from a Westernoriented one to a multi-dimensional one, with substantial focus on East Asia. Russia’s East Asian policy is stimulated by its bid for great power status in ...
In 2012, political developments in Taiwan were somewhat different from what observers predicted at the beginning of the year. The ruling party is now weaker than what it appeared earlier. The United States and mainland China are the two most crucial ...
Even after the new millennium, the Korean peninsula still remains not only the heart of the Northeast Asian security discourse, but also as the centre of global security concerns. The absence of visionary leadership in East Asia and North Korea’s ...
Turkey’s Asian policy entered a new period after the Second World War as Ankara began to establish relations with East Asian countries, based upon its own foreign policy vision and economic capacity. Either security concerns or economic interests, ...
The linkage between foreign policy and hegemony is admitted but has not been systematically analysed in the study of Turkish foreign policy. One of the key reasons for this is the absence of analytical tools that conceptualise the linkage between ...
This paper examines the Kurdistan Region’s increasing significance for regional politics, including its role in Turkish foreign policy. It also discusses Turkey’s foreign policy towards the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) since its creation ...
The Afghan wars present a good example of contemporary conflicts, often described as “complex political emergencies” (CPEs). These are the offshoots of diverse factors related to ethno-national, ethnogeographic, ethnoeconomic, ethno-religious ...
The International Human Rights Movement - A History By Aryeh Neier Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012, 357 pages, ISBN: 9780691135151. Küyerel ...
The mission of the Center for Strategic Research (SAM) is to conduct research on Turkish foreign policy and in ...
During the Cold War, the structure of the bipolar international system, which was based on static polarisation, ...
This brief critically examines a new area of activism in Turkey’s foreign policy agenda: Turkey’s ...
As the United States and Turkey enter the third decade following the end of the Cold War, they are ...
Across the world, there are many countries that have established institutions to serve and engage ...
Cengiz ERİŞEN Cengiz ERİŞEN
Elif ERİŞEN
The goal for this special issue on political psychology is twofold. The first is the need to consider different perspectives in foreign policy analysis. Neither a single theoretical understanding of foreign relations between states nor a ...
As an increasingly popular interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to studying individual-level political phenomena, political psychology has made important strides in explaining the processes behind political attitudes and behaviour, decision ...
In the post-Cold War era, from 1993 to 1996, Tansu Çiller led Turkey through volatile political and economic crises. Moreover, she had a strong interest in foreign affairs and her leadership attracted attention from abroad as she was a female prime ...
In this article we examine the mechanism by which the political opinions of Turkish citizens can be explained on the basis of attachments to Islam and the Turkish nation. Using insights from political psychology we review the dynamic role of these ...
Public opinion towards the European Union in Turkey is a relatively understudied area. Although previous studies have identified some important factors that influence individual support for the European Union, such as material expectations and ...
By way of utilising and also extending image theory, one of the earliest and longest-lasting research areas in foreign policy analysis, this article discusses the change in the perception of the Other that is currently taking place in both Turkey ...
There is a clear link between a state’s domestic situation - where policy is formulated and made (called foreign policy making), and its external environment, in which policy is implemented (called foreign policy behavior). In post-Soviet states ...
In the case of Bangladesh, this paper argues, the nature of the prevailing political culture is playing an important role in the growth of extremist politics and the resulting violence. Most of the political parties are democratic, but only in name. ...
While pursuing its own development with confidence and success, Turkey has become deeply concerned with all ...
Şule TOKTAŞ Bülent ARAS
Şule TOKTAŞ
Perceptions continues to publish special issues, and this one examines 50 years of migration from Turkey to Germany. The emigration process is a multi-dimensional and multi-faceted one and needs to be studied from different perspectives and through ...
It has been fifty years since the guest worker agreement was signed between Turkey and Germany on 30 October 1961. In subsequent years, although Turkey has signed similar agreements with such countries as Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, ...
Turkey is a country with relatively recent and ongoing experience of labour emigration. Starting with the signing of the bilateral Turkish-West German labour recruitment agreement in October 1961, it has been a country of emigration, a trend that ...
This paper aims to combine an overview of how in the last five decades immigration policies developed in Germany with illustrations of how regulations for family migration changed in the same period. The demographic figures presented indicate that, ...
This article investigates the literature of highly skilled migration framed within the concepts of brain drain, brain gain or brain circulation. It argues that students are a subset of highly skilled migrants with semi-finished human and social ...
This article is derived from the findings of an empirical study based on semi-structured and life course qualitative interviews conducted with Turkish-German migrants and their significant others in both countries.1 As the interviews involved ...
There are an estimated 90,000 – 120,000 German citizens living in Turkey. While laws and regulations pertaining to Turkey’s immigration regime mainly stem from the early years of the Republic, they have increasingly come under scrutiny. In an ...
About five percent of persons born in Turkey, or born to Turkish parents outside Turkey, some four million people, are in the EU-15 countries. Migration was the major relationship between Turkey and Western Europe for most of the past half century. ...
Great Powers and Geopolitical Change By Jakub J. Grygiel Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, 280 pages, ISBN: 142140415X. The Globalization of NATO: ...
Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative Introduction By Marijke Breuning New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 207 pages, ISBN: 9780312296193. Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis: ...
The world is undergoing tumultuous changes, presenting challenges to countries such as Turkey that ...
Global governance is a topic of serious discussion among students of ...
This policy brief presents an alternative perspective on the ...
Gülnur AYBET
Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN Ahmet DAVUTOĞLU
This brief seeks to explain the challenges facing Turkey’s ...
It is a real honour to have been asked to be the guest editor for this special issue of Perceptions celebrating Turkey’s sixty years in the North Atlantic Alliance. I would like to thank Prof. Bülent Aras and staff of the Center for Strategic ...
When Turkey joined NATO on 18 February 1952, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman were still in office. NATO was a three year-old alliance, with just 12 members. And it would be another three years before the Warsaw Pact was formed. Over the next six ...
“NATO is the most successful defence alliance in modern history.” While some may argue that this is a superficial cliché and that the Alliance is fast becoming irrelevant, others believe that this is a truthful statement reflecting the ...
This article explores the evolution of NATO as a security community in three phases. It argues that during the Cold War and immediate Post- Cold War era, the Alliance had a focused grand strategy. In the third phase which starts ...
This article examines the rationale and implications of NATO’s missile defense program which was an appropriate, but problemmatic, response to collective defense requirements. By designing a theater-based missile defense in ...
NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept identifies cooperative security as one of “three essential core tasks” to be achieved in part “through a wide network of partner relationships with countries and organizations around the ...
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After a brief period of positive relations between Russia and NATO in the early 1990s, a whole series of crises in relations have led to a general deterioration of the relationship. These crises have resulted from two very ...
Turkey & Its Neighbors: Foreign Relations in Transition By Ronald H. Linden et al London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, 257 pages, ISBN: 9781588267719 Soğuk Savaş Sonrası Kafkasya (The Caucasus After the Cold War) By Kamer ...
İbrahim KALIN
Şaban KARDAŞ
The growing debate on TFP is likely to evolve in parallel with the activities of foreign policy makers in neighboring regions and beyond. The academics and experts aim to understand and explain TFP, while policy makers pursue a multidimensional ...
Turkey’s soft power capacity comes from its history, culture and geography. Rather than seeing them as obstacles or burdens, the Turks are now turning them into strategic assets in both ...
This article studies developments in Turkish-American relations over the last decade. It starts with an analysis of the three parameters of the bilateral relationship that took shape at the ...
This article examines Turkish foreign policy towards the Caucasus and argues that Turkey regards the region as a land of opportunity and influence. It first looks into the transformation of ...
Turkey and Russia are working to transform their century-long geopolitical disputes into a geo-economic partnership. From the 2000s onwards, there have been rapid improvements in the ...
It is sometimes argued that Turkish foreign policy under the AK Party government reflects its ideology, and Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle East is often used as an illustration of ...
Abstract Since the AK Party assumed power in 2002, Turkish foreign policy has gone through a tremendous change both in its content and scope. The most striking and ‘new’ aspect of ...
Abstract This study explores the content, causes and results of Orientalization practices in mainstream Turkish foreign reporting. The analysis is made of the “World” pages of the two ...
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Andrea ELLNER
Mark FITZPATRICK
Perceptions continue to publish special issues on critical issues of international importance. This particular special issue, a collection of six articles, examines security in the Middle East. The Middle East is at a critical juncture and ...
In this paper the security of Turkey with respect to Syria, Iraq and Iran is examined. A theoretical model is presented for analyzing the security of Turkey. This model emphasizes the power and in particular the military power for ...
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This paper analyses social, economic and political factors during the years between Syria’s independence (1946) and its unification with Egypt (1958) that led to the fall of democracy. Despite the achievements of hardwon ...
The article argues that Turkish foreign policy has moved beyond slogans. An overview of Turkey’s relations with Syria, Iraq, Iran and Israel shows that Turkey is increasingly more relaxed, mature and flexible in its foreign ...
In the highly intricate conditions of current global security, the determination and assessment of where the international community is standing at the end of the NPT Review Conference related to the Middle East’s nuclear ...
The nuclear fuel swap that was proposed by the USA in October 2009, accepted by Iran, then rejected, and finally accepted again under conditions rejected by the West, was never a solution to the nuclear crisis. Tangential to the ...
This paper argues that the framing of Iran’s policies as “the problem” for regional security and the attempts of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany (P5+1), especially the ...
The mission of the Center for Strategic Research (SAM) is to conduct research on Turkish Foreign ...
Özgehan ŞENYUVA
Roberto ALIBONI
Perceptions is publishing its second issue with its new design. The editorial team and board have worked hard on improving the style and quality of the journal. Perceptions has a new deputy editor, Dr. Mesut Özcan, who recently ...
Italy and Turkey have built over the decades a partnership based on economic cooperation, shared international concerns, and a common vision of Turkey’s future as a member of the European Union. Italian ...
As energy dependency increases in Europe, Turkey and Italy found it necessary to cooperate on pipeline projects to secure Europe’s energy supply and to increase their role as transit countries in the ...
This article provides an in- depth analysis of Italian citizens’ attitudes towards Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU). It identifies opinion patterns in Italy concerning Turkey and key determinants of variation ...
The Balkan region is at a historical juncture, as the SEECP (South East ...
The aim of this article is to examine the representation of Turkey in Italian newspapers. The questions that are investigated are: a) if the representation of Turkey in Italian newspapers is stereotyped and illinformed; b) if ...
Both Turkey’s and Italy’s strategic centers lie outside the Mediterranean, in particular the North Atlantic and Europe, where their major alliances, namely NATO and EU, are located. Their gravitation towards these centers has ...
Şaban KARDAŞ
E. Fuat KEYMAN
Perceptions has a new editorial board and with this new issue has changed its design as part of our tireless efforts to bring high-quality analyses to our readers’ attention. The new editorial board consists of prominent academics specializing in ...
One of the most critical foreign policy issues for Turkey in 2009 and 2010 was the US expectation that Turkey would contribute more troops to Afghanistan within the framework of the AfPak Strategy. The US requested Turkey to send ...
This article examines Turkish foreign policy towards Iraq in 2009. Turkey’s Iraq policy had been conditioned by mainly security factors. In the last couple of years, however, we have witnessed an increasing use of tools other ...
This article examines critically the developments pertaining to the Cyprus issue in 2009. Turkish authorities gave genuine support to the Cyprus negotiations and insisted that a solution should be concluded and voted on in ...
This article analyses Turkish foreign policy towards the USA in 2009. After putting the Turkish-US relations into historical and political context it focuses on a set of developments that affected bilateral relations in 2009. It ...
This article aims to fill the methodological gap in the conventional IR literature by assessing the recent trajectory of Turkish foreign policy from the prism of international political economy, in particular global ...
The end of the Cold War meant the end of the ‘buffer state’ identity of Turkish foreign policy – an identity which was based mainly on the geopolitical position of Turkey in world politics. Since ...
