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Book Review: Islam in Pakistan: A History
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Not Our War: Iraq, Iran and Syria’s Approaches towards the PKK
Indonesian Political Economy: A Historical Analysis
A Specter is Haunting the West (?): The BRICS and the Future of Global Governance
Rent Seeking and Industrial Growth in Africa: The Case of Dangote’s Cement Industry
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Perspectives from the field: Self-defence groups as a force for community resilience
  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: European Union Security Dynamics: In the New National Interest

    28 March 2014 By 0 7

     By Janne Haaland Matlary (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2009, ISBN 9780230521889, 248 pp., £55.00 hb.) By K. Kaan Renda | 11 October 2010   The notion of security has changed significantly in the post-Cold war era. Security is not anymore understood in the traditional sense as state-centric and military-oriented. In fact, the concept of security now encompasses different sectors such…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Why not Torture Terrorists? Moral, Practical, and Legal Aspects of the ‘Ticking Bomb’Justification for Torture

    28 March 2014 By 0 23

    By Yuval Ginbar New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-954091-4, 414 pp., £ 75.00(hb.)   By Dr. Murat Tumay | 15 April 2010 After the atrocities of World War II the International community achieved the immensedevelopment in the protection of Fundamental Freedoms and Rights of Man which wetoday call Human Rights Law. The prohibition of torture…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy

    28 March 2014 By 0 14

    Constantine Arvanitopoulos (Ed.) Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-540-88196-4, 215 pp., £72.00(hb.)   By Aksel Ersoy | 15 April 2010 Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU) has probably been the mostextraordinary case in the EU history. The reason why it is such an extraordinarycase is because Turkey’s European integration is related not just to the basis…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Security: A New Framework for Analysis

    28 March 2014 By 0 333

    By Barry Buzan, Ole Weaver, and Jaap de Wilde (Lynne Rienner: Boulder, 1998, 239 pages, £ 13.00) By Esengul Ayaz | 14 April 2010 There are two opposing schools of thought in security studies which conceptualize security differently: wideners and traditionalists. While traditionalists define security by equating it with military issues and the use of force, wideners…

  • Book Reviews

    Kitap Analiz: Maddi Uygarlık (Gündelik Hayatın Yapıları, Mübadele Oyunları, Dünyanın Zamanı-3 Cilt)

    28 March 2014 By 0 175

    Fernand Braudel Çevirmen: Mehmet Ali Kılıçbay İmge, Ocak 2004 Ümit Çalık* BRAUDEL: Finans tarihi açısından incelediğim Maddi Uygarlık isimli üç ciltlik eserin yazarı Fernand Braudel 1902-1985 yılları arasında yaşamış bir Fransız tarihçidir. Yazarın tarih alanında verdiği en önemli eserlerden ilki; 1949 yılında yayımlanan İkinci Filip döneminde Akdeniz ve Akdeniz Dünyası isimli eseridir. Braudel’ in biyografisini anlatan…

  • Genel

    LOS ANGELES

    28 March 2014 By 0 69

    LOS ANGELES: “Either exist as you are or be as you look” Los Angeles (LA) is located in Southern California which takes place in the western part of the United States (US). With its 3,792,621 population, it is the second most crowded city in US. However, LA must be considered as a metropolitan area instead…

  • Genel

    PARIS

    28 March 2014 By 0 13

    PARIS “It is Paying the Price for Being a Global City” In this volume, Paris the capital city of France, which is also the fifth strongest economy of the world, has been examined in detail from a globalisation perspective. BY FATIH EREN | June 2012 Paris is located at the north of France. With its…

  • Genel

    BEIJING

    28 March 2014 By 0 19

    BEIJING: Humanistic City In this volume, Beijing which is the capital city of the most populous country of the world has been examined in detail from a globalisation perspective. BY Dr. FATIH EREN | APRIL 20, 2012 Beijing is located at the north of China. With its 19 million population, it is the second largest…

  • Genel

    BAKU

    28 March 2014 By 0 8

    BAKU “Baku’s Planning: for what and who?” Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, has been examined in this volume. BY FATİH EREN | DECEMBER 11, 2011 Azerbaijan stands at the crossing point of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a resource-rich country and it is located on very important energy and transportation corridors; so…

  • Genel

    NAIROBI

    28 March 2014 By 0 4

    NAIROBI: “Needs to Feel the Positive Effects of Globalisation…” Written by FATİH EREN Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, who hosts the world’s biggest refugee camps, has been examined in this volume. Kenya is the most developed and the most influential country in East Africa; and, Nairobi is the most populous and one of the…

  • Genel

    CAIRO

    28 March 2014 By 0 8

    CAIRO “Ready to change its fortune…”* BY FATIH EREN** | 08.06.2011 Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, who is under strong global impact has been examined in this volume. Egypt is a transcontinental country which is located at the intersection of the North Africa and the Southwest Asia. The country has a 80 million population…

CESRAN Blog

  • 14 July 2019

    The IEPAS2019 (6th Annual Conference on Eurasian Politics and Society) has been completed successfully.

    The 6th International Conference on Eurasian Politics and Society was organised by CESRAN International and Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa on 4-5 July 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference hosted 11 scholarly panel sessions, one roundtable session and one book discussion session. IEPAS2019 started with the welcome addresses of Professor Jose Amado Da Silva (Rector, UAL), Professor Luis Tome (Scientific coordinator, OBSERVARE-UAL),…

  • 19 February 2019

    Outbidding in Times of Uncertainty – Post-conflict transitions and competitive violence.

    Large bombings, only days apart, in Bogota and Derry/Londonderry have put paid to any notions of a simple peace process in either country. These events show that the two very different conflicts display many of the same dynamics. Both countries have seen increasingly fragmented peace processes, with multiple non-state actors and intransient splinter groups vying…

  • 14 February 2019

    The inherent dangers of secrecy in the US foreign policy

    Since the Vietnam War, officials of the United States have increasingly abused the essential democratic safeguards of accountability and an informed citizenry in apparent attempts to protect themselves from being held accountable for their actions. They use secrecy and disinformation to prevent the American people from obtaining the information they need to evaluate their government’s…

  • 14 February 2019

    18th Issue of Political Reflection Magazine is Out Now!

    Vol. V | No. I – January-February-March 2019 To Download the Magazine Click Here… CONTENTS 05-06…..World News by Furkan Sahin 09-14…..The Ideological Potential of Climate Change: (Post) Politics in the Age of Global Warming by Miguel Angel Zhan Dai 15-18…..Yemen Civil War: A Conflict That Has Never Ended by Dr. I. Aytac Kadioglu 21-25…..NATO: The Shifting Sands of an Alliance by…

  • 31 January 2019

    CESRAN International Named again amongst the Top Think Tanks in the World

    CESRAN International is pleased to announce that it has been named again amongst the world’s best think tanks. The 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked CESRAN International 141st among the World’s “Top Think Tanks in Western Europe” 76th among the World’s “Top Environment Policy Think Tanks” 152nd among the World’s “Top Foreign Policy…

  • 9 October 2018

    New Issue is Out Now!

    Vol. IV | No. V – October-November-December 2018 To Download the Magazine Click Here… CONTENTS 04-06…..World News by Furkan Sahin  08-20…..Terrorism in Syria and Beyond: An Interview with Prof. Alain Gabon by Dr. Rahman Dag 22-24…..Erdogan’s Best Shot is Still in the West by Dr. Murat Ulgul 26-30…..Raqqa vs Kobani – Terrorism vs Revolution by Dr. Rahman Dag 32-34…..Future of…

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